Question on The Wizard Of Oz

Since this movie was made back in 1939, how did they know how to make it into a color movie. And How come lots of movies made after 1939 were still in black and white? 😮

colour was expensive, so a lot of movies still went for the black and white option.

Ah! I didnt know that.

That's true.

I believe "Gone with the Wing" is also color.

Or take 1945's "Picture of Dorian Grey", the whole movie is
b&w, except for a special scene towards the end, which is
color.

In fact, there are a couple of very early short silent films,
from France for example, that had some primitve colors
in them.

So the process was known, just expensive as MildPossession
pointed out, and so not worth using except on a very few
big production movies.

Yea I remember an old silent film I saw a few weeks ago, it was semi colored or "primitive" I guess, as you said. It never really came to mind about "cost efficiency" for colors/black and whites.

i hate all of you.

Pardon?

Lol..that was random? Hate? Why?

"Wizard of Oz" ran over his dog once.

Traumatized him deeply.

Poor guy.