Technicolor

     Many of us have seen at the beginning of an old movie something along the lines of "color made possible by Technicolor." Technicolor was a process that would revolutionize the film production industry. Originally invented in 1916, Technicolor was the second process that was ever created for filming a major motion picture production in color. Technicolor was improved over many years and was the standard of Hollywood productions from 1922 to 1952. The process is famous for having beautiful saturated colors. Two famous movies that utilized Technicolor were the Wizard of Oz and Singing in the Rain. 

     Technicolor worked by having three separate film reals capturing the same scene at the same time. One of the film reals would have a blue filter, one would have green filter, and one would have a blue filter. After filming these separate film reals would go though a chemical process and then be combined together. Combining the RGB color pattern that the three film reals produced resulted in extremely vivd colors.