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Coloration: (adj) a specified pervading character or tone of something.
Maybe Paul Simon was right in his song, “Kodachrome.” Everything looks worse in black and white.
That certainly was in the mind of those individuals who started adding color to movies.
I remember the first time I watched “It’s a Wonderful Life” with color enhancement. I don’t know if I was in an obsessive mood or if the hues were not true, but
during the final scenes, I kept wondering why Jimmy Stewart (Mr. George Bailey) was wearing a lavender shirt.
I tried to keep my mind off of it, but there was a portion of me that just believed that a mauve color on that character was odd.
In like manner, when I watch television and they talk to me about “color commentary”–adding coloration to the news–it always surprises me that their choices are orange, crimson and fuchsia.
There was a certain warmth to black and white movies–the sniff of sincerity. Maybe it was the simplicity of believing we were getting the truth handed to us in black and white.
Sometimes color is just color–and not enlightening.
And often coloration is a fear of taking something that might seem drab and energizing it with joy.
Published by Jonathan Cring
5 years ago 
