Cinema in colour

Color movies started with the film itself in 1895 with Edisons's Kinetoscope,and the hand-painted Annabelle's Dance




Between 1900-1935, many colouring techniques were used:
1.Hand painting

2.Pathé colour


3.Film tinting:
specific colours.Red for fire, blue for night.

4.Toning:
a color effect.The dark parts of the image are replaced with a color.

5.Sonochrome:
Eastman Kodak, 1929.17 colours.

6.Additive color
-Kinemacolor: 1906.Invented by Edward R. Turner and George Albert Smith.


-Biocolor
-Dufaycolor: 1931.
They were not economical.

7.Subractive color-TECHNICOLOR

It was a revolution because of its high quality.
-Two-color Technicolor. There were many types of this.

-Three-strip Technicolor.1924. It reproduced all the spectrum.
These are some of the films with this technique.




"Flip the Frog"















"The Toll of the Sea"









8.Kodachrome(1935)





9.Eastmancolor(1952): an improved version for Hollywood productions.

10.3-D(1953):When Technicolor made their own stereoscopic.

11.Recent developements- CD,VHS,DVD.