Technicolor at 100: The Road to Color Film Production

[@hollywoodeastchannel]

I have "King of Jazz" on Blue-ray digitally restored, remaster and it looks great like it was shot this year. Very nice and really a modern look.

[@heygirlspodcast]

two color is so interesting. creates more of a fantasy. i wish more from that era still existed

[@ddkoda]

The little facets of the Technicolor Two Color system of which most people aren't aware. What surprised me the most was the large number of films made with the Technicolor Two Color System, 384. Most probably didn't survive to our day but still it was a very impressive effort that allowed Technicolor to barely amass enough resources to concentrate on developing a photographic system that would in time capture the full color spectrum. I also thought I heard that a studio executive ordered a Two Color print processed in some special way with a blue dye so as to allow for a more natural rendition of color with the limited Technicolor Two color system.

[@aaendi6661]

There was knockoff brand called Cinecolor, that usually had a more orange-cyan look to it.

[@reidtommy7352]

instablaster...

[@Pauldjreadman]

There is a great history of colour on Filmmaker IQ.

[@LaurenceDay-d2p]

The classic tri-strip Technicolor was better than modern CGI effects.

[@Kinopanorama1]

Very interesting and informative. Highly recommended.

[@srfurley]

I have seen original nitrate Nitrate IB prints of three strip films projected by carbon arc and no Eastmancolour restoration that I have seen really manages to reproduce that look. However, some recent digital releases on DCP have come close.

[@torgman]

1:06 I'm highly intrigued by the goggles on the guy on the right

[@timdiggerm]

Somebody doesn't know how to de-interlace properly. It looks pretty awful anytime anything or anyone moves.

[@BetamaxFlippy]

I know right how do they fail such a trivial task? Disappointing...

[@hebneh]

I assume you're talking about Kinemacolor, and yeah, that was its major failing. If everything had stayed still it would've worked much better.