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Since the advent of color, black-and-white mass media often connotes something " nostalgic ", historic, or anachronistic.

For example, the 1998 Woody Allen film Celebrity was shot entirely in black-and-white, and Allen has often made use of the practice since Manhattan in 1979.

Other films, such as The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), American History X, Pleasantville and The Phantom of the Opera ( 2004 ) play with the concept of the black-and-white anachronism, using it to selectively portray scenes and characters who are either more or less outdated or duller than the characters and scenes shot in full-color.

This manipulation of color appears in the film Sin City and the occasional television commercial.

Wim Wenders ' 1987 film Wings of Desire uses sepia-tone black-and-white for the scenes shot from the angels ' perspective.

When Damiel, the angel ( the film's main character ), becomes a human, the film changes to color emphasising his new " real life " view of the world.