Why did they name it "a patch of blue"?!
Question: The movie with sidney poitier helping the blind girl
Answers: The movie with sidney poitier helping the blind girl
I found this at IMDB's forum:
Director Guy Green said that it came from the blue patch of a British army unit. Because of their insignia, the unit was refered to as "the patch of blue". When trying to think of a title they linked that up with the part of the screenplay referring to her remembering the color "blue" and decided to use the phrase for the title. As one of the few B&W features made in the late '60s it is interesting that it has a color in its title and that the director's name is a color.
The film was adapted from a book "Be Ready With Bells and Drums", whose title was later changed by the publisher to "A Patch of Blue" as a way to capitalize on the film's publicity campaign.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0059573/board...