And John Lasiter's artful lighting scheme reproduces the shadowy look of noir movies in the black-and-white sequences and the artificial tones of old hand-tinted postcards in the color scenes.
In celebration of Franklin's arrival, the channel's Web site, www.noggin.com, will present "Franklin Scribblevisionn, an animated online coloring book in which children can draw characters onto color scenes and watch them come to life in animated stories.
The women's extravagant, windup-like performances are matched by Chytilová's riotous audacity, with florid color scenes intercut with black-and-white ones, luridly tinted images, cartoonish fast motion, rapid-fire subliminal editing, and collage-like decorative fantasies.
The two initial spots, which blend black-and-white film of Mr. Johnson with color scenes of consumers using some major products, will be shown on NBC on the "Today" show and "The West Wing" and on CBS on "48 Hours".
"Beyond the Ocean" shifts from black-and-white sequences in Russian with English subtitles -- it begins with one such scene, with the young Pitsee (Tatiana Kamina) fending off the advances of her uncle (Donovan Barton) -- to color scenes in Manhattan, where the older Pitsee (Dasha Volga) has just arrived.
He was nominated (along with others for art and set direction) for an Academy Award for the 1956 epic "The Ten Commandments," but once said he expected to be remembered for the 1953 cult favorite "War of the Worlds," with its classic color scenes of Los Angeles being laid to waste by Martians.
It was also tested on real outdoor color scenes and aerial images.
Basically, the widget offers you quick access to the "all off" button and a few color scenes, letting you quickly turn your lights to a few preset configurations without opening the app.
The stimulus photographs used in the instantaneous natural image categorization task were complex color scenes taken from a commercially available CD-ROM library.
