The Red Shoes (was RE: ALBUM NEWSFLASH!)

[agough@sedona.intel.com (Andy Gough)]

In article <C8Mqxp.IG0@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>, cjsm@hogpa.att.com writes:
> YEAH! I've been monitoring this newsgroup for
> a LONG time waiting to see news like this....
> 
> "The Red Shoes" is a well-known SAD story about
> a ballet dancer.  Can't remember the details of the
> story since its been years since I read it except that its
> very very sad.   Like someone dies.
> Knowing Kate's love for literature, maybe
> this story is a basis for a song and the album title?
> -- C. Mount

I know The Red Shoes from a different angle.

One night on Entertainment Tonight, Leonard Maltin had a story on films
that made great use of the old (as opposed to the current) Technicolor
process.  "The Red Shoes," he reported, is considered the film that used
the Technicolor process to greatest effect.  I believe he said it was also
available on videocassette or videodisk (or both).

BTW, the old Technicolor process created three negatives--red, green, and
blue. [I believe these were created by shooting black & white film through
red, green, and blue filters in the camera]  These three negatives were
then used to produce the single distribution copy.  This process results in
a very wide color range--rendering accurately subtle pastels to bright, fully
saturated primaries [much like Kodachrome slide film].  The first Technicolor
film was Gone With The Wind.  In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's shoes were
changed from silver (in the original script) to "ruby" because the producer
[I think] said, "If I'm paying for Technicolor, we're going to use it!"

Regards,
Andy
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