high schoolers dont know when colored TV was made

[Wenda]

my coworker is 17 and thought 80s movies were in black and white

[Pieshaman]

maybe he seen the elephant man, raging bull, tetsuo or any of the many possibilites.
your 17 year old co worker is not wrong

[Sherasonni]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Goldias:

Maybe the guy watched Schindler's list so he thinks 1990 movies still doing in black and white.

And he thought that the girl in the red coat was the first attempt at color.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Soniaa:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Sherasonni:

Teens of the 1980s didn't think that teens of the 2020s would think that way. Don't get surprised about how the teens of the 2060s will think of you and your past. And their response to your response would be, "who cares?"

Who says I am surprised or will be surprised?

I will totally understand why teens in 2060 will not care about 2023...

Not even I will care about 2023 in 2060...

That's because you're thinking of the 2060s as a very young person. Wait till you get older. When you get older, you start to realize how time flies and things change drastically. You realize that history shouldn't be forgotten and you'd wish if only the kids would know.

[Masque]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Goldias:

Maybe the guy watched Schindler's list so he thinks 1990 movies still doing in black and white.

Or "Kafka".

[Wenda]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Sherasonni:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Braix (ve/ver):

my coworker is 17 and thought 80s movies were in black and white

Perhaps your coworker heard it from a friend who's originally from a country that didn't have color movies during the 80s. Or maybe the friend was born in your country and the parents are originally from the other country. I don't know how it was in the 80s Third World countries. (I just have a vague idea from the people who had been to those countries at that decade). I know that some of the current First World countries that were developing countries during the 70s began to have color cinemas and broadcasting around the mid-70s (although that was before my time). The older First World countries began to have color movies and television much earlier than that.

no they were born and raised in america to a very white mom and a ??? dad (i know what her mom looks like cause she knocks on the front of the door 15 minutes before her shift ends for who knows what reason)

[ZZZZZ]

tbh I think majority of ppl dont know when colored TV got introduced

[Tonepoet]

To be fair, the transition from black and white to color did not happen all at once, so it's not entirely something that's easy to pin down.

Early episodes of I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched from the 1960s were aired in black and white. The shows eventually transitioned to color, but I am not exactly when. Also, many films were shot in black and white and then colorized in post-production[en.wikipedia.org]. Putting a pin in when true color recordings became the standard draws a bit of a blank for me, if just going off of the top of my head.

Also, some films are also shot in black and white for artsy reasons. The Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein from 1974 was shot in black 'n white as an homage to the early monster movies it was spoofing for example.

1980s is a bit of a ridiculously late guess in my opinion, but I suppose being high school age is still young enough to get a pass for such ignorance at this point, since the kid is not even from the 20th century in the first place. As time moves on, this sort of historical trivia grows more obscure, and we are almost a quarter of the way into the new century, and it is not particularly relevant information if you are not watching classic shows.

[Devsman]

The most offensive thing about thinking 80's movies are black and white is the implication that the speaker has never seen Back to the Future.

[Azza ☠]

It's odd when you think the entire world use to be in just black and white, until colour was invented!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOHkeH2VaE0

[Grendalcat]

From this:

https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/color60s/

"Programs that had started prior to the 1965-1966 season, or premiered in black-and-white during it, were forced to convert to color at the start of the 1966-1967 season, when all three networks were broadcasting their entire prime time line-ups in color, aside from news specials and films originally shot in black-and-white (much of the daytime programming on ABC and CBS was still in black-and-white) [35].

Shows that had to convert from black-and-white to color included, among others: The Wild, Wild West on CBS, one season in black-and-white (1965-1966) and three seasons in color (1966-1969); Gilligan’s Island on CBS, one season in black-and-white (1964-1965) and two seasons in color (1965-1967); The Andy Griffith Show on CBS, five seasons in black-and-white (1960-1965) and three seasons in color (1965-1968); Twelve O’Clock High on ABC, two seasons in black-and-white (1964-1966) and one season in color (1966-1967); I Dream of Jeannie on NBC, one season in black-and-white (1965-1966) and four seasons in color (1966-1970); and Bewitched on ABC, two seasons in black-and-white (1964-1966) and six seasons in color (1966-1972)."

[GunsForBucks]

I don't think age has anything to do with it.

I know a guy older than me that was complaining about daylight savings time..
He actually had no idea it was related to number of hours of sunlight and change of seasons.
He thought the clock change did all that.

Some people just pay more attention to things than others. Always been that way, always will.

[Under there]

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