sepia and new tricks with old timelines

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 19 Aug 2002, 18:44 · from urth-v0208.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) sepia and new tricks with old timelines
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:44:32 -0700
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> That they are sepia points more toward the style question,
> which still remains: when was "sepia vogue," that is, at what=20
> point in the 20th century did sepia tone prints drop out of
> fashion?

While I don't have an answer to hand, one data point: in the
1939 film THE WIZARD OF OZ, sepia-tone (rather than standard
B/W) was used in the Kansas segments to give them a "dated" or=20
antiquated feel, giving me the impression that sepia must have
been out of vogue for some time at that point -- by Hollywood
standards, that is, so at least a year or two.

--Blattid

--=20

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