Michael@mimarek1@masto.ai
@lxskllr@mastodon.world @allstartrek@a.gup.pe
I have never heard that The Cage was originally shot on B&W. I am sure that The Menagerie was before Colorization was invented.
Do you see Gene on camera or it is just a text message?
He used to play The Cage at conventions. Maybe there was something contractual that did not give him the full original color version for that purpose.
lxskllr@lxskllr@mastodon.world
@mimarek1@masto.ai @allstartrek@a.gup.pe
I found this online, and it talks about it a bit...
https://www.tvobscurities.com/2009/10/star-trek-the-cage/
tl;dr
It appears color frames were temporarily lost, so a working copy in b&w was spliced in. Later, color footage was found. It's unclear to me why you'd have color and b&w copies, but I don't know the nuts and bolts of film production.