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"Color first came on the cinematic scene, not all at once, like Athena bursting from the head of Zeus, but little by little, trickling into our field of vision."
- Adrienne Redd
The introduction of color in motion picture films helped to represents the pain, sensuality, conflict, beauty, evanescence, and mortality of human life
In films like Pleasantville and The Wizard of Oz, color differentiates two universes.
based on the subtractive color system, which filters colors from white light through dyed or color sensitive layers within a single strip of film.
This was a system of pre-tinted black-and-white film stocks. The Sonochrome line featured films tinted in seventeen different colors
This process gave a demonstration of color motion pictures that used an additive four-color process, using a disk of four filters acting on a single strip of panchromatic film in the camera.
Process began with Kodak's Kodachrome system. The process worked by bleaching away the silver and replacing it with color dye, then a color image was obtained.
This process was popular during the silent era, with specific colors employed for certain narrative effects (red for scenes with fire or firelight, blue for night, etc.)
This was a process in which either the emulsion or the film base is dyed, giving the image a uniform monochromatic color.
This process incorporated an original print of a film with sections cut in the appropriate areas for up to six colors by a coloring machine
Annabelle's Dance
by Thomas Edison
The first films with color in them utilized aniline dyes in order to create artificial color.
Represented in yellow dye
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Subtractive color processes proved far more practical to exhibit than were additive systems.
Represented in magenta dye
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Represented in cyan dye
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Projected through a blue filter
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can be problematic because it must be aligned perfectly and requires a lot of light or a small screen
Projected through a green filter
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sensitive to all visible colors of the spectrum.
sensitive to only blue and green.
Projected through a red filter
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