Post by jarvitronics on Jun 24, 2007 13:51:19 GMT -5
I have noticed some unusual things about the use of color on the Sgt Pepper cover that I hope y'all will explore with me. Maybe we can uncover a pattern.
1) Marlon Brando (#39) is pictured as his character Johnny Strabler from the film The Wild One, which was a black and white film. On Sgt Pepper, the band around his hat has been colorized with gold.
2) The legionnaire from the RAOB (#69) has unnaturally creepy orange skin.
3) Tom Mix (#40) starred in hundreds of black and white westerns. He did not appear in even one color film. He died in 1940 when his head was crushed in a single-car accident. On Sgt Pepper, while most of him is in black and white, his face has been subtly colorized. (To be fair, 35mm Kodachrome film was introduced in 1936, so this could be a color photograph of Mix, except that the rest of him looks black and white).
4) POE (#8) died long before color film, yet his face has been subtly colorized.
5) Laurel and Hardy (#28 & #30) made only black and white films, however both appear colorized. Stan Laurel slightly so, while Oliver Hardy has been made to look like a cartoon. It hardly (pun?) even looks like him. (Again these could be color stills since both men lived well past 1936, but they look like retouched black and white).
6) Simon Rodia, Bob Dylan, Terry Southern, Marilyn Monroe, William Burroughs and Stuart Sutcliffe, (#13, #14, #20, #25, #26, & #35), could all have been in color, but black and white shots were chosen for them instead, and left uncolorized. (Johhny Weismuller, #45, could have been in color too, but he is shown in his Tarzan role, and all of his Tarzan films were black and white).
I am sure there are more but I want to get this posted so more eyes than mine can add to the list.
1) Marlon Brando (#39) is pictured as his character Johnny Strabler from the film The Wild One, which was a black and white film. On Sgt Pepper, the band around his hat has been colorized with gold.
2) The legionnaire from the RAOB (#69) has unnaturally creepy orange skin.
3) Tom Mix (#40) starred in hundreds of black and white westerns. He did not appear in even one color film. He died in 1940 when his head was crushed in a single-car accident. On Sgt Pepper, while most of him is in black and white, his face has been subtly colorized. (To be fair, 35mm Kodachrome film was introduced in 1936, so this could be a color photograph of Mix, except that the rest of him looks black and white).
4) POE (#8) died long before color film, yet his face has been subtly colorized.
5) Laurel and Hardy (#28 & #30) made only black and white films, however both appear colorized. Stan Laurel slightly so, while Oliver Hardy has been made to look like a cartoon. It hardly (pun?) even looks like him. (Again these could be color stills since both men lived well past 1936, but they look like retouched black and white).
6) Simon Rodia, Bob Dylan, Terry Southern, Marilyn Monroe, William Burroughs and Stuart Sutcliffe, (#13, #14, #20, #25, #26, & #35), could all have been in color, but black and white shots were chosen for them instead, and left uncolorized. (Johhny Weismuller, #45, could have been in color too, but he is shown in his Tarzan role, and all of his Tarzan films were black and white).
I am sure there are more but I want to get this posted so more eyes than mine can add to the list.
