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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 ...
Practical color in the motion picture business began with Kinemacolor, first demonstrated in 1906. [5] This was a two-color system created in England by George Albert Smith, and commercialized by film pioneer Charles Urban's Natural Color Kinematograph Company from 1909 on.
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.
Starting in 1878 with the publication of The Horse in Motion cabinet cards, ... producing color pictures for the first time, ... Movies like Metropolis (1927) ...
Distributor and color conversion company Above and Beyond: 1952: 1992: Turner Entertainment [1] [2] The Absent-Minded Professor: 1961: 1986: The Walt Disney Company [3] (Color Systems Technology) [4] [a] An Ache in Every Stake: 1941: 2004: Columbia Pictures (West Wing Studios) [7] Across the Pacific: 1942: 1987: Turner Entertainment [8] Action ...
Kinemacolor faced several issues, including its inability to reproduce the full color spectrum due to being a two-colour process. Other issues included eye strain and frame parallax because it used a successive frame process, as well as the need for a special projector. The color filters absorbed so much light that studios had to be built open-air.
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A hand-colored print of George Méliès' The Impossible Voyage (1904). The first film colorization methods were hand-done by individuals. For example, at least 4% of George Méliès' output, including some prints of A Trip to the Moon from 1902 and other major films such as The Kingdom of the Fairies, The Impossible Voyage, and The Barber of Seville were individually hand-colored by Elisabeth ...