COLOR REVERSAL

The idea of draining the hues from a Technicolor film for commercial gain might seem an absurd takeoff on the colorization process (Calendar Letters, June 14).

It has, however, happened.

In the mid-1950s, the Warner Bros. Technicolor classic “The Adventures of Robin Hood” was reissued to theaters in black-and-white. It was largely these relatively inexpensive prints that found their way to television a short time later. As a result, I, like many people I know, grew up under the impression that the film was shot in black-and-white.

Where then were the film purists while this was going on?

ANDREW IVERSON

Thousand Oaks