{"id":22158,"date":"2021-12-05T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22158"},"modified":"2021-12-05T00:06:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:06:58","slug":"we-owe-a-lot-to-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/we-owe-a-lot-to-the-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"we owe a lot to the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22159\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sweethearts-1938-Technicolor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22159\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22159\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sweethearts-1938-Technicolor-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanette MacDonald by Technicolor in the 1938 Sweethearts movie<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_three-strip_Technicolor_films\">In 1932, Hollywood released<\/a> the first movie shot in <a href=\"https:\/\/hometheaterhifi.com\/editorial\/how-three-strip-technicolor-worked\/\">Technicolor&#8217;s three strip process<\/a>. The shot here is via TCM and Sony TV and shows Jeanette MacDonald in a scene from the movie &#8220;Sweethearts&#8221;. \u00a0This was the first color film for both her and Nelson Eddy.<\/p>\n<p>While consistent color balance was still challenging, the three strip process resulted in brilliant, long lasting colours; all be it very saturated colours with lots of yellows, reds and sparkling blacks and whites.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N-T8MVrw1L0\">process was costly and \u00a0clumsy<\/a>. Each scene was shot on three individual monochrome negative strips through individual filters. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g9S76vtk4Ro\">dye transfer process<\/a> was used to make the distributed positive. A very expensive route to colour that lasted well into the mid last century when single film tri-packs became common (Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, etc.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In 1932, Hollywood released the first movie shot in Technicolor&#8217;s three strip process. The shot here is via TCM and Sony TV and shows Jeanette MacDonald in a scene from the movie &#8220;Sweethearts&#8221;. \u00a0This was the first color film &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/we-owe-a-lot-to-the-movies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[315,15,2724,1312,3231,3961],"class_list":["post-22158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-color","tag-colour","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-technicolor","tag-three-strip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22163,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22158\/revisions\/22163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}