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The Counsel of Trent

#1048 - FFAF: The "Black and White Hack" for Modern Films

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this free-for-all-Friday, Trent reveals a new way to watch your old favorites.

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0:00.0

Today I'm going to do a short episode on a recent hack. I don't know the term hack really works

0:05.7

anymore, but I'm going to use it, like a life hack. How to make your life better, at least more

0:09.6

interesting when it comes to watching your favorite films. And that is called a black and white

0:14.4

hack. That's what I want to talk about today. Mondays and Wednesdays, we talk apologetics and

0:18.5

theology. But on Fridays, we talk about whatever and theology, but on Fridays we talk about whatever

0:22.1

I feel like talking about. And today I want to talk about the black and white hack for your

0:26.6

favorite films. And it basically goes like this. If you take a lot of older films, not all of

0:32.2

them, it's sort of a process of trial and error, but if you take a lot of older color films and then you rewatch them again

0:41.1

in black and white, it's like a completely new experience. It's like a brand new movie. It's more

0:47.6

enjoyable. You get a different feel from it. And it's just a really fun thing to do. So that is, that's, that's the hack.

0:55.8

And I just want to talk about it. I did it with two films and I'll talk about some other films

0:58.8

people have done it with. And yeah, I would just recommend just give it a try. It's a super fun thing

1:03.1

to do. And how do you do? Well, it's easy to just go on your television to the, the TV settings, picture settings, and on color saturation, it'll probably set it around like 50.

1:15.1

If you set it up to 100, it's super color saturated.

1:18.4

And it's kind of weird.

1:19.2

When you turn it all the way up super saturated, it's painful to watch.

1:22.3

It's way too much color, bleeding all over the place.

1:25.1

So you want to turn the saturation down to zero.

1:29.2

So to get you, now, let me give you the tips,

1:31.5

and I'll explain a little bit more.

1:32.7

Turn the saturation down to zero.

1:35.1

Turn the contrast up a little bit more.

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