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Subject: Re: First Color Films
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 19:47:27 EST
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  >One interesting fact about color films.  The process was discovered in
  >the middle of the filming of the Wizard of Oz.  They decided not to 
  >reshoot all the parts they had already done.  That's why the scenes in
  >Kansas are in black and white and you don't have any color until they
  >hit Munchkinland.
  >
  >ellen bart

I hardly think so.  Wizard of Oz was produced the same year
as Gone With the Wind (1937-1938, which, by the way, is why
it didn't do much on Oscar night--stiff competition).  Gone
With the Wind was all in color and took longer to film.  

Previous postings to the net have established that certain
color films date to the early thirties.

Actually, color filming techniques were not "discovered" in
the 30's, anyway.  There are color techniques that date back
at least to the 1910's.  Agfa of Germany had a color technique early
in this century.  It was one of our "spoils of war" that brought
the technology to America after WWI.  It took another 20 years
to make color filming cost-effective at least for blockbusters
like Wizard and GWTW.

The "Oops! We discovered color! Let's do the rest of the film
in it!" sounds typical of apocryphal stories.

*** disclaimers & cute sign-off ***
John B.