What is Technicolor®?

Technicolor® is a patented process of creating live color films of what is essentially a black and white film material by combining two or three separate strips of exposed film tinted with special dyes. It is a very demanding and expensive process that produces hyperrealist colors best suited for films with larger than life, such as musicals, period pieces and epic. Technicolor® is still sometimes used in modern movies to provide them with the same visual quality as the era they display. If you are not a confirmed film technophile with a burning interest in color timing and dyes, this article should cover the process essentials.

Many people assume that color films did not come to the scene until the age of 30, but there were several quiet films that were either toned manually or processed through the first Technicolor® Two-Strip Technique. Technicolor® itself was founded in 1915 and the first silent films that appeared forCES, they were released in 1922. At that time there was nothing like colorful film supplies, so the challenge was to find a way to create realistic color films from black and white movie shots with cameras with one lens.

What was developed by Technicolor® engineers was a-player of the beam that would take the original picture passing through the camera lens and divide it into two (later three) separate but the same images that would hit two different strips running in a special camera. In the original two -lane process, one film belt should be placed with a red filter located and a beam writer, while the other film belt would have a green filter. This meant that the film belt "red" and "green" film belt would still be black and white to the naked eye, but everyone would have different gray grades that corresponded to the spectrum of red, yellow and blue.

When these strips of filtered black and white f wereIlmu developed into negatives, they would be processed by a film supply saturated with dye made of gelatin. The Technicolor® process was similar to how newspapers produced color comics. The film strip with red color would be fastened to the green-colored film stripe and both would be placed on the original black and white shots. When the strong light of the Technicolor® projector has passed through all three layers, the result was a color film with relatively realistic skin tones and backgrounds.

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process was improved in the 30th years by adding the third yellow filtered film strip. Many of the best accepted musicals and costume dramas 30 years were filmed using the Technicolor® process. Maybe the two most important films that benefit from them were away with the wind and sorcerer Oz . The sorcerer Oz was particularly unforgettable for his transformation of the middle and white story of black and white to the sepia into a dazzling color.

Technicolor® continued to be a profitable process for its creators during noTyřicate and fifties. In the 1960s, however, many studies used color shares processed by a rival, George Eastman Company. The original process also suffered on the market because it was very demanding to work and much more expensive than the Eastman process. Technicolor® films were considered better to saturate colors and archive qualities, but the studios could produce and sell many other Eastman films at a time when it took a single technicolor® film to be completed.

The company is still in business for film processing, but the real process is rarely used in the mainstream movies. Many companies have stopped production on the necessary dyes and modern techniques of color films were drawn by Technicolor® largely by service. Several major Hollywood editions such as films based on the 40th years of the 20th century aviator and Pearl Harbor a visible way of processing a color film.