Transcription: A lot of people think something is missing from a black and white movie, but in fact, something has been added. After all, the real world is in color, so we see that every day, but black and white are more mysterious, more stylized, more impressionistic, more dreamlike. It's no coincidence that so many of the films that make everybody's list of the greatest movies of all time were photographed in black and white. I've chosen some scenes from laser discs from the Criterion Collection to illustrate that. Look at this opening scene from Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, often voted the best movie ever ...
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