CIN374Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Rouben Mamoulian, Herbert Kalmus, Tom Gunning
19 Mar 2019
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The 1930"s is the period where colour meets classical narrative. Hand-coloured magic lantern slides led to hand-painted frames in the earliest edison and. Between 1905 and 1908, pathe freres perfected hand-painted frames with a process. Tom gunning calls these applications of colour as a superadded feature aimed at known as stencil tinting. Most industry estimates place about 80-90% of all films having some tinting or toning feature by the 1920"s. Tinting involved dying the gelatin of a release print so that the entire image is bathed in colour, while toning replaced the silver image so that highlights remained clear. The earliest photographic colour processes were known as additive processes meaning that white light was created by adding various densities of red, blue, and green to the chemical process. Additive formats included french gaumont"s chronochrome (in 1913) and technicolor. The most successful were technicolor process number two (1922) and number three (1928)
