Technicolor Movies: The History of Dye Transfer Printing

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McFarland, 2010 M06 28 - 168 pages

Using extensive research and interviews with many of the surviving Technicolor technicians, the history of dye printing and the events leading to its demise are fully covered. (The Beijing Film Laboratory is the only facility currently using the process.) Included are diagrams of how the process worked and an extensive listing of U.S. feature films printed with it.

 

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Contents

Two Strip Technicolor
Two STRIP CEMENTED POSITIVE
Two STRIP DYE TRANSFER
4
THE MATRIX
7
THE BLANK
8
Two STRIP TECHNICOLOR IN THE THIRTIES
9
Three Strip Technicolor
13
Live Action Photography
15
CINEMASCOPE
70
VistaVision
77
WlDESCREEN FLAT FlLMS
82
The Wet Gate Optical Printer
83
Thrillarama
95
SUPERSCOPE
96
TODD AO
98
Technirama and Super Technirama 70
102

The Three Strip Camera 19321955
17
Three Strip Matrices
19
The Gray Printer
20
Opticals
21
Reclaim Blank
22
Color Consultant
23
True Life Adventures
25
BLUE TRACK TECHNICOLOR
26
The British Lab
27
THE TECHNICOLOR PACKAGE
28
TECHNICOLOR FILMS IN THE THIRTIES AND FORTIES
31
Consent Decree
45
THE GOVERNMENT VERSUS TECHNICOLOR
47
Eastmancolor Negative
49
OTHER COLOR PROCESSES
52
Safety Base Film
55
Television
56
The Fabulous Fifties
61
THREE STRIP DYE TRANSFER PRINT DERIVED FROM COLOR NEGATIVE
62
3D
65
PANAVISION
104
OTHER ANAMORPHIC SYSTEMS
108
MGM Camera 65 and Ultra Panavision 70
109
Technicolor Italiana
112
Decline and Demise
117
Techniscope
121
SUPER PANAVISION 70 AND PANAVISION 70
124
Sovscope 70
125
SMM AND SUPER SMM DYE TRANSFER
126
Color Reversal Internegative
127
Demise
128
Eastmancolor
130
Purge
131
DECLINE IN EXHIBITION
132
Eastmancolor Today
135
The Beijing Film Lab
136
Bibliography
141
Index
145
Copyright

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Technicolor Movies: The History of Dye Transfer Printing
Richard W. Haines
Snippet view - 1993
Technicolor Movies: The History of Dye Transfer Printing
Richard W. Haines
No preview available - 2003

Common terms and phrases

35mm dye transfer anamorphic Ansco Ansco Color B&W red black and white blank stock blue matrix Dyed British prints camera negative cement positive CineColor CinemaScope Cinerama color negatives developed Disney/RKO dye couplers dye transfer copies dye transfer features dye transfer prints dye transfer process dye transfer reduction dye transfer release Eastmancolor Eastmancolor negative Eastmancolor process fade FEATURES 35mm dye fleshtones green matrix Dyed green record Hollywood Kalmus Kodak matrix and blank matrix Dyed yellow MGM Camera 65 Monopack optical printer optical track positive prints principal photography projector reduction printed release copies release prints research department screen sequences shot silver sprockets strip dye transfer studios Super Technirama 70 Technicolor Technicolor prints Technicolor Process Number Technirama Techniscope television three strip cameras Three strip dye three strip Technicolor Todd Todd AO transfer features derived transfer release prints Trucolor Ultra Panavision 70 VistaVision white negative

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About the author (2010)

Film director Richard W. Haines is also the author of The Moviegoing Experience, 1968–2001 2003). He lives in New York.

Bibliographic information

TitleTechnicolor Movies: The History of Dye Transfer Printing
AuthorRichard W. Haines
Editionillustrated
PublisherMcFarland, 2010
ISBN0786480750, 9780786480753
Length168 pages
  
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