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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
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Subject: First Color Films
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 16:44:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 10 16:44:22 1985
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> 
> Whether or not GWTW was one of the "first" color films depends on how loosely
> you define "first".  Since "Becky Sharpe" in 1935 (5 years before GWTW),
> three strip Techicolor had been in use.  Two strip Technicolor had been in
> use even longer.  Lon Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera" (1926) had a short 
> Technicolor sequence, and an Anna Mae Wong movie in the early twenties is
> reputed to be the first Technicolor feature.  Generally, the larger studios 
> produced only two or three films per year in Technicolor, since both filming 
> and striking prints were very expensive in this process.  
> 
> -- 

The first Technicolor film for public release was the Disney short "Flowers
and Trees" (1932).  Apparently, Disney was so taken with the Technicolor
process that he bought the exclusive rights to it (for anamation only?) for
the next five years.

If "Flowers and Trees" looks a little washed out today, it's because the
drawings were painted with *watercolors*!
-- 
                    Jack Hagerty, Zehntel Automation Systems
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