A Beige New World!

Calvin:
Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they
have color film back then?

Dad:
Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just the
world was black and white then.

Calvin:
Really?

Dad:
Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.

Calvin:
That's really weird.

Dad:
Well, truth is stranger than fiction.

Calvin:
But then why are old paintings in color?! If their world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?

Dad:
Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.

Calvin:
But... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?

Dad:
Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.

Calvin:
So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?

Dad:
Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

Scientific Progress goes "Boink!"
Bill Watterson

We seem to have developed as far as beige here, and then stopped!

Anyway, the coat means she's home again, and normal service can be resumed. Wouldn't want her to know who misses her the most when she's gone...