Post by un fake di AlbertoPost by usernet-incomaretaIn che anno ebbe inizio il cinema a colori?
Il primo lungometraggio in *Technicolor* dovrebbe essere stato "Becky
Sharp" (1935). In genere si considera questo titolo come risposta, ma
ignorando tutti gli esperimenti fatti nel passato (fin dal 1900), i
cortometraggi, le pellicole colorate a mano e altre robe simili.
Trovo qui
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/6396/oz-lore.htm
quanto segue:
I recently came across a terrific source and explanation about this in
a book called The Hollywood Archive : The Hidden History of Hollywood in
the Golden Age by Paddy Calistro; published by New York, Universe
Publishing, 2000. On pages 54-56 in this book there's a section called
"Bringing Color to the Movies". This is what the author had to say:
"Color on the motion picture screen? Never!" scoffed filmmakers in the
first decade of the twentieth century. Performers, too, laughed at the
idea, and for good reason. Why risk their careers on a gimmick that
could jeopardize the success of their films?
Movies in color had long been the dream of international film pioneers:
Louis Jacques Daguerre, James Clerk Maxwell, H.W. Vogel, Emile Reynaud,
Georges Melies, and the brothers Lumiere. But their efforts had been
costly and time consuming since each frame had to be individually
hand-tinted. Even Thomas Edison, who produced a color film of a stage
success, Annabell's Butterfly Dance, hand-tinted the entire
thirty-five-foot length, frame by frame.
In 1915 a new enterprise named Technicolor made color movies a
possibility on a commercial basis. But the going wasn't easy at first,
even for Technicolor, headed by Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, a graduate of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the name Technicolor was in honor
of his alma mater) and a former chemistry and physics professor. Instead
of forging ahead in giant leaps, Dr. Kalmus and his partners--two fellow
M.I.T. graduates, Daniel Comstock and Burton Westcott--moved in smaller
steps to maintain quality control, conserve time and money, develop a
natural-looking color process, and ultimately to project the image with
standardized equipment.
Using the same two-color components--red and green--devised in 1910 by
Kinemacolor, Kalmus's team produced a ten-minute one-reel film. A
refurbished railroad car, Technicolor's first laboratory, made its way
from Boston to Jacksonville, Florida, where the filming of The Gulf
Between (1918) took place.
Between 1917 and 1926, Technicolor released its first two-color feature
film, The Toll of the Sea. The first film with artificially lit
interiors, Cytherea (1924), came out, along with several star vehicles,
including Stage Struck (1925), with Gloria Swanson, and Douglas
Fairbank's The Black Pirate (1926).
The first surge of real enthusiasm for Technicolor came between 1928 and
1930, as more and more producers rushed to add color to the new sound
movies. The result was a series of subpar productions with garishly
tinted pictures--still in the two-color process--that did Technicolor
more harm than good. Dr. Kalmus, who had opened a facility in Hollywood,
decided to embark on one last push to overcome Technicolor's basic
shortcoming, the lack of a three-color-or full-color-image. In 1932,
Techicolor introduced a new camera that finally could successfully
record all three colors: red, green, and blue.
Producers were still skeptical. However, Walt Disney, who had never used
the two-color process in his cartoons, was so impressed with the new
full-color image that in 1932 he released Flowers and Trees, the first
full-color Technicolor film. The following year came Disney's animated
Three Little Pigs. In 1934, the first live-action short in three-color
was released, La Cucaracha.
The door opened slowly, but studios gradually began adding Technicolor
sequences to their releases. By the end of the 1930's, Technicolor had
become a star in its own right. And by 1939, Gone With the Wind and The
Wizard of Oz proved that there was no limit to the impact of color on
the big screen."
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