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[maclean525]

Right. It's not the colors that are at fault, it's the fact that 40's Britain was shrouded in coal-burned pollution ALL THE TIME. Remember, every house had a fireplace, most had more than one. Each of those fireplaces burned coal. Add to that all the factories burning coal and there's a good reason it was grey. You know London was known as "The Smoke" right? And Edinburgh "Auld Reekie"? Almost 5000 people died in a one week period in London in the 50's just due to an episode of excessive smog.

Britain in the 40's was grey and dreary and dark. That's not Hollywood, that's reality.

Here's a great statistic: "There has been an astonishing hundredfold reduction in atmospheric particulate levels in London over the last fifty years and the air, in most respects, is cleaner in the capital city than at any other time since the middle ages."