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From: upstill@ucbvax.ARPA (Steve Upstill)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: First Color Films
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 12:25:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 12:25:13 1985
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    The basic reason old color films look so vibrant today is the three-strip
Technicolor process.  The color fidelity is so good because splitting and
filtering an image onto three black-and-white strips is simpler than having
three emulsion layers interacting on a single strip, as later color films have
done.  The colors are more saturated because the studios were enthusiastic
about having their investment in color justified by spectacle.
    The other major reason they look so good is that, since Technicolor is
stored as black-and-white separations, there is no problem with the dyes
fading, as with single-strip processes.