Glorious Technicolor
August 5, 2023
Ron
How Technicolor Changed Movies
I found this video tonight while searching for clips to replace some now-missing clips in older posts which YouTube has purged in their massive Library-of-Alexandria-type scrubbing of the internet.
I realize that probably nobody who reads these posts might give two-hoots about this topic, but I care. I spend an enormous amount of time considering color and composition on this site, which is why I don't even bother to configure it for hand-held; I want people to have to view it in a larger format so they can experience the color and movement I work so hard to capture here. And the Technicolor process HEAVILY informed how I think about color. I was mesmerized as a child by the deeply-saturated colors in "The Wizard of Oz", particularly, and I must admit that I see the world through bold, vivid Technicolor eyes. The three-strip process explained here not only changed the movies, it really changed the perceptions of its audiences. No color process, in my opinion, has ever equalled the three-strip technicolor process for gorgeous, true tones in movies.
You gotta have glorious Technicolor,
breathtaking Cinemascope
and stereophonic Sound!
THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
How Movies Went From Black and White to Color — The Long History Behind "Color Movies"
“Glorious Technicolor” — Documentary, (1998) WONDERFUL
The Most Beautiful Multicolor Shots in Movie History
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
Technicolor: The Greatest Name in Color
1940 Technicolor Process Promotional Film
The Dye Transfer Printing Process - Technicolor 100 THIS IS GREAT
The Three Strip Camera - Technicolor 100 FASCINATING
Three soundproof camera booths on the set of “Showgirl in Hollywood” at First National (Warner Bros) studios, Burbank, late 1929
CONSERVATION
Remastering process of the movie “The Wizard of Oz”
ARCHIVE NOTES
1st Publication: October 21, 2020
2nd Publication: April 15, 2022
3rd Publication: August 5, 2023
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