Mar 032005
I just learned some very interesting information about the concept of “Technicolor” as a coloring process. According to this article, the process of coloring via Technicolor technology (used from the mid 30’s through the 50’s) is a process of actually taking 3 images of each frame thanks to a prism in the camera. The 3 slides represent each of the 3 primary colors and get developed that way. What’s interesting now is that since there is much effort being put into restoring old movies and putting them on DVD, a lot of these old 3-color movies are being finally restored thanks to digital composting that provides alignment of each of the 3 slides -a process that just wasn’t available only a few years ago. Pretty kewl if I do say so myself…