How come in the olden days the world was black and white?
- Thread starter Billy Bob
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Colour photography and film making was developed in the earlier half of the twentieth century. At first it was very expensive and only a few could afford it. Some early propaganda films from both the Allied and Axis sides of World War II were able to be made using it.
Colour television really came into vogue in the 1960's.
The comic strip 'Calvin and Hobbes' had a good description of how colour came into the world which would give one some fodder for thought if a mind was malleable enough to accept it.
Colour television really came into vogue in the 1960's.
The comic strip 'Calvin and Hobbes' had a good description of how colour came into the world which would give one some fodder for thought if a mind was malleable enough to accept it.
Your question is SOOOO ridiculous I actually don't mind answering it (just to entertain me and you in the process!) 
No, it LOOKS like it is black and white from all the printed media and black-and-white colour photography and film (though colour film actually existed as far back as 1860) - colouring photographs and filming elements were too expensive "way back then" and only became affordable when mass-production and modernisation took place in the industrialised world after World War 2 ended.
And no, nuclear fission in thermonuclear devices would actually release ALL the known colour wavelengths AT THE SAME TIME the explosion happens (that is why atomic bombing survivors and witnesses to nuclear detonation tests report seeing a bright white light - white light consists of all the colours of natural light) . . . and only then everything becomes black (pure carbon - basically people turned into diamond dust within a 2 mile radius of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's bombs)
No, it LOOKS like it is black and white from all the printed media and black-and-white colour photography and film (though colour film actually existed as far back as 1860) - colouring photographs and filming elements were too expensive "way back then" and only became affordable when mass-production and modernisation took place in the industrialised world after World War 2 ended.
And no, nuclear fission in thermonuclear devices would actually release ALL the known colour wavelengths AT THE SAME TIME the explosion happens (that is why atomic bombing survivors and witnesses to nuclear detonation tests report seeing a bright white light - white light consists of all the colours of natural light) . . . and only then everything becomes black (pure carbon - basically people turned into diamond dust within a 2 mile radius of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's bombs)
Your question is SOOOO ridiculous I actually don't mind answering it (just to entertain me and you in the process!)
No, it LOOKS like it is black and white from all the printed media and black-and-white colour photography and film (though colour film actually existed as far back as 1860) - colouring photographs and filming elements were too expensive "way back then" and only became affordable when mass-production and modernisation took place in the industrialised world after World War 2 ended.
And no, nuclear fission in thermonuclear devices would actually release ALL the known colour wavelengths AT THE SAME TIME the explosion happens (that is why atomic bombing survivors and witnesses to nuclear detonation tests report seeing a bright white light - white light consists of all the colours of natural light) . . . and only then everything becomes black (pure carbon - basically people turned into diamond dust within a 2 mile radius of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's bombs)
No, it LOOKS like it is black and white from all the printed media and black-and-white colour photography and film (though colour film actually existed as far back as 1860) - colouring photographs and filming elements were too expensive "way back then" and only became affordable when mass-production and modernisation took place in the industrialised world after World War 2 ended.
And no, nuclear fission in thermonuclear devices would actually release ALL the known colour wavelengths AT THE SAME TIME the explosion happens (that is why atomic bombing survivors and witnesses to nuclear detonation tests report seeing a bright white light - white light consists of all the colours of natural light) . . . and only then everything becomes black (pure carbon - basically people turned into diamond dust within a 2 mile radius of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's bombs)
Your question is SOOOO ridiculous I actually don't mind answering it (just to entertain me and you in the process!)
No, it LOOKS like it is black and white from all the printed media and black-and-white colour photography and film (though colour film actually existed as far back as 1860) - colouring photographs and filming elements were too expensive "way back then" and only became affordable when mass-production and modernisation took place in the industrialised world after World War 2 ended.
And no, nuclear fission in thermonuclear devices would actually release ALL the known colour wavelengths AT THE SAME TIME the explosion happens (that is why atomic bombing survivors and witnesses to nuclear detonation tests report seeing a bright white light - white light consists of all the colours of natural light) . . . and only then everything becomes black (pure carbon - basically people turned into diamond dust within a 2 mile radius of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's bombs)
No, it LOOKS like it is black and white from all the printed media and black-and-white colour photography and film (though colour film actually existed as far back as 1860) - colouring photographs and filming elements were too expensive "way back then" and only became affordable when mass-production and modernisation took place in the industrialised world after World War 2 ended.
And no, nuclear fission in thermonuclear devices would actually release ALL the known colour wavelengths AT THE SAME TIME the explosion happens (that is why atomic bombing survivors and witnesses to nuclear detonation tests report seeing a bright white light - white light consists of all the colours of natural light) . . . and only then everything becomes black (pure carbon - basically people turned into diamond dust within a 2 mile radius of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's bombs)