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From: jeb@eisx.UUCP (Jim Beckman)
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Subject: More Wizard of Oz
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Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 14:16:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 12 14:16:53 1983
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   While we're giving credit to Harold Arlen, the composer
for the Oz songs, let's not overlook the lyricist who
collaborated with him.  Who can remember that name?
   Technicolor - One other color film released in 1939 was
Gone With the Wind.  I can't think of the third.  The
black-and-white part of the Wizard of Oz was actually washed
out to more of a sepia tone in the film lab, and the 
transition to color was an important part of the script.
The Technicolor process didn't actually photograph in color.
I believe there were actually three separate reels of
black-and-white film running through the camera, being
exposed through different color filters.  The incoming
image was split by some type of prism.  Does anybody know
how the final print of the film was then produced in the
lab?  The process was such a secret that Technicolor 
delivered the cameras to the studio in the morning and
picked them up again at the end of the day's shooting.

   Jim Beckman    ATTISL, South Plainfield, NJ