Show 1 Technicolor Cornea Comes R 9 0 To H Hollywood What Is destined to be the mo most significant tUrn of f the year lear Is la tb the first tull length full color color Becky harp In n Technicolor's perfected three three color color process reports Tilt The Literary Lit Lit- Digest I The work largely of or Drs Ors Herbert Thomas Kalmus and Daniel Frost Comstock Comstock graduates of or Massachusetts Massachusetts lI Institute of ot Technology Technicolor vas spas fIrst user usco In 1911 In 1932 rk r. r the Kalmus the firm firmi bras i cas fas incorporated In 1015 found 1915 found a prospect In Walt alt Disney y who madeIa made marto I Ia a Silly Symphony Flowers ers rs and andryes farces ryes es lu In color anti and The hrco Little Pigs convinced producers of ot the arrival of or color In tho the cartoon Held field at least But Dut it wa was Pioneer Pictures owned by John Hay flay i Jock k Whitney h head ad of oC a fortune and ancl Merian Cooper former production head ad of oC RICO and now guiding guhling hand hund in Whitney Whitneys company which gave Technicolor's Improved three three color color process its Hs opportunity In feature films The Theory In Technicolor white light or sunlight which Is a combination of ot all colors is s broken up into tho three component colors red green and blue As the thc light rays enter the camera they strike a a gol gold t flecked mirror which diverts thor tho the r red d and blue rays at right angles through a magenta mac red filter to twin negatives and permits penults the tho green grcen rays without diverting to pass paRS on through to the third nega nega- I tive The magenta filter Olter permits only the diverted red and blue rays to pass past through to the twin negatives the first negative being S sensitive only to blue and the back to red I but three negatives instead of at ono as In a n black and white film must be made Only the intensity of ot colors however in degrees ol of black and white unite appear on the negatives not thc colors It Is the development of at the single color positive film that Technicolor Technicolor Inc is secure for the company controls the developing pi process First the three negatives are covered with a gelatin emulsion emul emul- emulsion sion sian next a wash removes the soft sort emulsion thirdly the three matrices ma ma- forming arming rellers of or the original inal colors are dyed their complementary comple comple- men tary colors finally the matrices arc are printed on one positive film Producers Producer's Problem Much like the advent of th the Talkies says The Literary Digest should Technicolor win popular favor r producers would have to throw v out thousands of ot dollars dollars' worth of ot valuable equipment and change h methods In make up lightIng light light- Ing log more intense light is required and sets Tho The color camera built and leased by Technicolor Inc I costs and takes about five mouths months to build In preparation of at a color picture the color designer In Becky Sharp Robert Edmond Jones first sketched each set each scene Harmony Harmony Harmony Har Har- mony between each bit of color In Inthe Inthe Inthe the scene to be shot costume fur fur- or drapes is essential for aside from the colors In set and costume the director as is la done on the stage can flood the scene with an any colored spot spot to create whatever whatever whatever what what- ever mood Is desired But Becky Sharp Is not too pleasant an introduction Introduction in In- to the color field to producers producers pro pro- for tor its Us cost COit was wu about 11 |