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From: davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: First Color Films (Oz) - facts is facts
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Date: Mon, 6-May-85 14:55:42 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 14:55:42 1985
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Summary: "The facts ma'am, just the facts."

In article <158@idmi-cc.UUCP> root@idmi-cc.UUCP (Admin) writes:
>> About Technicolor being "discovered in the middle of filming" the Wizard
>> of Oz:  Something nobody seems to realize is that films are almost never
>> photographed in plot-order.
>
>Your point is a good one but does not change the fact that TWoO's color
>process was scrapped about 1/3 of the way through the filming in favor
>of the 'revolutionary new process' Technicolor.  Facts, after all, is facts :-)

*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH THE FACTS ***

I went to the library and checked in "The Film Encyclopedia" by Ephraim Katz
about Technicolor. Some of the facts stated:

o The original Technicolor process was developed in 1917 by Kalmus and
  Canfield. They produced a movie in that same year using the process.
  The original process used two strips of film exposed in a special
  camera and projected using two projectors running in sync with 
  red and green filters. The process was improved upon and a
  Douglas Fairbanks picture was shot in 1926 with this process.

o The 3 strip process was developed in 1932. Several shorts were made
  with this technique. In 1935 "Becky Sharp" was made. It was the first
  full length feature to use the 3 strip process. 1939 was a watershed
  year for Technicolor as both GWTW and TWoO were released in Technicolor.

There was no mention of any other changes to the process, although I'm
sure they kept improving the dyes, etc. I have seen clips of "Becky
Sharp" and of course GWTW and the colors looked as good as that in
TWoO. If you have some facts pertaining to the re-filming of Oz I
would be interested in seeing them presented here. Until then I
will have to remain skeptical.
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