Three-strip Technicolor
Technicolor de tres bandas
- Date
- 1916–1932 · confidence high
- Place
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Comstock and W. Burton Wescott (Technicolor Corp.); Walt Disney (Flowers and Trees, 1932)
- People
- 👤 Herbert Kalmus1881–1963👤 Walt Disney1901–1966
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Camera that records three separate negatives (red, green, blue) and a dye-transfer printing process. It gave cinema its first stable, saturated colour.
What it led to
- Colour cinema as spectacle (The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind)
- The visual aesthetic of classic Hollywood
- Replacement by monopack film (Eastmancolor) in the 1950s
Built on
- Cinematograph (cinema)1895
- Kodachrome colour film1935
- Colour photography (Autochrome)
Made possible
- Eastmancolor
- Colour animated film