Technicolor

[rhogan@chaph.usc.edu (Ron Hogan)]

BBN.COM!ccj.bbn.com!lcliffor@eddie.mit.edu (Laura Clifford) writes:

>Eric notes:

>>The first film
>>to be credited as a feature-length live-action motion picture in
>>Technicolor is a 1935 movie called BECKY SHARP.

>Yes, but wasn't this only a two-strip process?

No.  BECKY SHARP was the first full length feature that used Joseph
A. Ball's three-strip process, which was first tested on Walt Disney
cartoons, and also a short live-action film called LA CUCARACHA.

You will be happy to know, however, Laura, that Herbert Kalmus and Daniel
Comstock, two of the founders of Technicolor Corporation, were MIT grads.

SOURCE: THE CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA, Bordwell/Staiger/Thompson

Ron Hogan
rhogan@usc.edu