Always enjoy looking at early colour films. It was tremendously brave of those pioneers to work at bringing greater realism to the moving picture. First time I saw King Of Jazz in colour I was just blown away.
Shortly before that, MGM did use two-strip as well in the 1925 "Ben-Hur", but only in a few sequences. It was used as a gimmick, but also a glance into the future.
"cut out and glued back to back"... Not quite sure that was the process. I mean... making a splice is risky enough. But 24 of them per second with sandwiched frames? ... I doubt it. Just guessing here. But... considering that it's a negative that has to be printed to a projection print anyways. So what you could do is to print only every other frame to one print and then rewind the negative and offset by one frame to get the other print with the other color. That way you get two prints without tedious cutting that can be dyed and sandwiched together to make the release projection print. Also, there was very often color in silent movies. But usually dyed whole strips in one color. With night scenes of Nosferatu being shown as blue and such for example. My guess is that the practice of coloring the whole scene in colors died out because of the needs of optical sound as the soundtrack would need a clear opaque and transparent area to reproduce sound decently.
This is what I am talking about the colour process and colorized movie's and pictures, if the idea and technology existed then ( 1896 to 1956 ) the term The Silver Screen would have been entitled The Golden Screen ( mmmmm).📽🎬
+Robert McEwen The music if from the score to the film (which is available for free on TH-cam). I think some parts sound a little like the music from The Legend of Zelda.
Great sets of videos.. Only one thing tho, your voice is so low and unclear... Cant hear it right especially anytime you mention a year, cant seem to catch wether you said 18 or 19.. low voice style video is just not for me I guess
Always enjoy looking at early colour films. It was tremendously brave of those pioneers to work at bringing greater realism to the moving picture. First time I saw King Of Jazz in colour I was just blown away.
Shortly before that, MGM did use two-strip as well in the 1925 "Ben-Hur", but only in a few sequences. It was used as a gimmick, but also a glance into the future.
Good video, thanks the work. It would be great if you mention release dates of all films you mentioned.
This made realize how outdated the film industry in my country is the first colored movie recorded in country is in the late 60s or early 70s
I love these, keep em coming.
Criminally underwatched
Very informative, thank you for making this.
No mention of "The Toll of the Sea"?
"cut out and glued back to back"...
Not quite sure that was the process. I mean... making a splice is risky enough. But 24 of them per second with sandwiched frames? ... I doubt it.
Just guessing here. But... considering that it's a negative that has to be printed to a projection print anyways. So what you could do is to print only every other frame to one print and then rewind the negative and offset by one frame to get the other print with the other color. That way you get two prints without tedious cutting that can be dyed and sandwiched together to make the release projection print.
Also, there was very often color in silent movies. But usually dyed whole strips in one color. With night scenes of Nosferatu being shown as blue and such for example. My guess is that the practice of coloring the whole scene in colors died out because of the needs of optical sound as the soundtrack would need a clear opaque and transparent area to reproduce sound decently.
Brilliant! Subscribed faster than you could say Technicolor II.
Cant wait for more!
This is what I am talking about the colour process and colorized movie's and pictures, if the idea and technology existed then ( 1896 to 1956 ) the term The Silver Screen would have been entitled The Golden Screen ( mmmmm).📽🎬
I've never seen a silent film in color.
Love this series
So basically this movie is the inspiration for "The Princess Bride?" He sounds like a combination of Wesley and Indigo Montoya.
Excellent archive content. Many thanks.
2:45 where'd you get this music?
What song on this video with your Jazz Singer video?
What is the song at 4:32???? Sounds so familiar.
+Robert McEwen The music if from the score to the film (which is available for free on TH-cam). I think some parts sound a little like the music from The Legend of Zelda.
Valeu!
Great sets of videos..
Only one thing tho, your voice is so low and unclear... Cant hear it right especially anytime you mention a year, cant seem to catch wether you said 18 or 19.. low voice style video is just not for me I guess
Assistam 1926: The Origin of Colour Cinema
Just saw a screening of this movie yesterday in Germany. It was a restoration made in 2023. I was astonished by how good the movie looks now.
Is it me or the colour filters on modern film are painfully annoying?
No. Called it Annoying is offensive.
I love how strange and saturated early color looked in film.
JesusisLORD
slight error at 2:47? shouldn't that be green instead of blue?
I noticed that too. Yep, Red and Green process.
Cinecolor was red and blue.
Personally I prefer black, white and gray too the sloppy early color movies. Black and White has such a clean look. God bless 😇
The narrator is annoyingly soft spoken. Even loud he's hard to understand.