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1) If kids grow up seeing black-and-white or silent movies at home, those won't seem so odd. Hell, I was a kid back in the 60's, when silent movies were regarded as passe--but because our local PBS station would run them during the holidays and in the afternoon, I grew up watching them and knowing the form. (And they ran the Lon Chaney PHANTOM OF THE OPERA a lot for some odd reason--and it's arguably the scariest film version of that story. :))
2) And if the movie is a good one, the b&w/silent issue usually goes by the boards. My then-high-school-senior cousin came to visit a couple years back and we were running through the cable selections. She wanted to see THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE or SKELETON KEY--but only under a ton of conditions (more people in the room; we had to watch during the day, etc., etc. :)) While she was making up her mind, I turned on REBECCA just to pass the time. At first she groaned--"Oh, it's in black and white!" But she was hooked from the minute the camera surveyed Manderley and liked it a great deal.
