Film |
Year |
Notes
|
Ben Hur |
1925 |
Experimental colour, too expensive for the whole feature
|
The Wizard of Oz |
1939 |
Mono in Kansas, colour in Oz
|
A Matter of Life and Death |
1946 |
Living world in mono, heaven in colour
|
Andrei Rublev |
1966 |
Final depiction of actual icons is colour, as are the framing images of nature.
|
Raging Bull |
1980 |
Mainly mono; interlude of an actual colour home movie
|
Heimat |
1984 |
Day mono, night colour
|
Schindler's List |
1993 |
Yellow candle flame, red girl's coat, something blue; also coda of descendants at Schindler's grave
|
Pleasantville |
1998 |
Colour symbolises personal freedom, mono conventionality
|
Memento |
2000 |
Colour for later story told backwards, mono for earlier story told forwards
|
The Women |
1939 |
Mainly mono, with a fashion show scene in colour
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