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Rear projection in color remained out of reach until Paramount introduced a new projection system in the 1940s. New matte techniques, modified for use with color, were for the first time used in the British film The Thief of Bagdad (1940). However, the high cost of color production in the 1940s meant most films were black and white. [1]
1940: 1993: Republic Pictures [688] Three Men in a Tub: 1938: 1994: RHI Entertainment, Inc. [689] Three Strangers: 1946: 1993: Turner Entertainment [690] The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze: 1963: 1994: Columbia Pictures (CST Entertainment Imaging, Inc.) [691] 3:10 to Yuma: 1957: 1992: Columbia Pictures (American Film Technologies ...
Excerpt from the surviving fragment of With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), the first feature-length film in natural colour, filmed in Kinemacolor. This is a list of early feature-length colour films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major ...
Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio Pictures 1940 Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Musical Feature US The Return of Frank James: 20th Century-Fox 1940 Crime, History, Western Feature George Barnes, William V. Skall: US Service with the Colors: Warner Bros. 1940 Army Recruiting Short Charles P. Boyle: US The Thief of Bagdad
The larger the screen, the dimmer the picture. For this and other case-by-case reasons, the use of additive processes for theatrical motion pictures had been almost completely abandoned by the early 1940s, though additive color methods are employed by all the color video and computer display systems in common use today. [4]
Dufaycolor was used in only two British-made feature films: the two colour sequences in Radio Parade of 1935 (1934), and the all-colour Sons of the Sea (1939), directed by Maurice Elvey. [6] It was used for short films; Len Lye, for instance, used it for his films Kaleidoscope (1935), A Colour Box (1935), and Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940).
The second all-color feature in Process 2 Technicolor, Wanderer of the Wasteland, was released in 1924. Process 2 was also used for color sequences in such major motion pictures as The Ten Commandments (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), and Ben-Hur (1925). Douglas Fairbanks' The Black Pirate (1926) was the third all-color Process 2 feature.
Anjali Pictures's Adutha Veettu Penn starring Anjali Devi, T. R. Ramachandran and K. A. Thangavelu had a colourful sequence for the songs "Enakkaaga Neeyae Raajaa" and "Mannavaa Vaa Vaa Magizhavaa" in colour, which were notable parts of the film. The censor certificate and credits state the presence of these colour sequences processed at the ...