The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.
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Angela Lansbury
- Narrator
- (voice)
John Alton
- Self - Cinematographer
- (archive footage)
Eugen Sandow
- Self
- (archive footage)
Annabelle Moore
- Self - Dancer
- (archive footage)
- (as Annabelle)
Douglas Fairbanks
- Self
- (archive footage)
David O. Selznick
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaReleased on the 2003 DVD of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
- GoofsThe documentation completely ignores the earlier German system "Agfacolor" which is the mother of all modern multi-layer color systems.
- Quotes
Arlene Dahl: I don't think there was anything more beautiful on the screen than a close-up of a beautiful actress - in Technicolor.
- ConnectionsFeatures How to Live 100 Years (1913)
Featured review
GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR (TV) (Peter Jones, 1998) ***
This 1-hour documentary details the history of this most famous of color processes, still considered the most satisfying - and durable - ever devised for purposes of filming. It also provides biographical data about the two people most important for its development and promotion - Dr. Herbert Kalmus and his wife Natalie; their thorny relationship and hers with the various studio bosses, when she eventually took Technicolor under her wing, is a great story in and of itself...but the documentary pays tribute as well to the many film-makers and auteurs who adopted the color system as their ideal mode of expression. There is a bit of an over-insistence on musical extravaganzas of the 1940s and 1950s but, then, it also affords reasonable time to classic illustrations of Technicolor on the screen - in particular, GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) and other David O. Selznick productions - and even touches upon how it fared in other countries, primarily Great Britain (where the process was perhaps seen at its best advantage in the idiosyncratic visions of The Archers' films).
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- Bunuel1976
- Dec 21, 2006
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- Runtime1 hour
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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