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As far as I know, they're still being made but generally in the 5" screen size for the smaller, portable (and I might add, inexpensive) TV sets.
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When Dark Shadows went on the air in 1966 it was Black & White. However, starting with episode #295 the program was videotaped in color. Now at this point you may be saying, "That's not true. I've seen later episodes and they're in Black and White!" What happened is that in addition to taping the series, kineoscope films were also made in black & white. Kineoscopes are films made by pointing the camera at a television screen. They did that because many of the affiliate stations didn't have videotape players as they were still very expensive. They could still broadcast the shows though using the kineoscopes. Well, many of the color videotapes are missing but the black & white films have survived. ABC stopped making the films in 1970 and one episode of the last season's run is totally missing.
I remember hearing that pink boxes always showed up as white, but that was back in the days of black and white TV....so maybe it is just a tradition in the land of television production to continue with that custom.
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2010) was one of, if not the last black-and-white movie. It can be assumed more will follow. The movies Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) and Sin City (2005) are two recent black-and-white movies that garnered widespread appeal in the U.S.See Sources and related links for a list of post-1960's black-and-white movies.
I think because a lot of black men are of mixed races and their hair is always a dead give-away as to their African roots. Same reason that black women use lace front wigs...it hides the nappy roots. I am white and my black girlfriends and I have really honest discussions about cultural differences. The black girls feel that when black men shave their heads, they look less black and can keep white girls guessing about their race. Nuts, I know, but it's what they tell me.