{"id":22736,"date":"2022-02-19T01:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T05:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22736"},"modified":"2022-02-19T01:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T05:42:35","slug":"and-you-thought-your-camera-was-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/and-you-thought-your-camera-was-big\/","title":{"rendered":"and you thought your camera was big!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22737\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Technicolor-camera-on-22Becky-Sharp22-American-Cinematography-Mar-1935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22737\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22737\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Technicolor-camera-on-22Becky-Sharp22-American-Cinematography-Mar-1935-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Article in American Cinematographer (Mar 1935) showing latest colour technology<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. We often seem to be fond of making comparisons. In 1935, Technicolor offered a way to make colour films in Hollywood. The process was <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/we-owe-a-lot-to-the-movies\/\">downright expensive<\/a> so only some films &#8211; scenes &#8211; were in &#8216;full colour&#8217;. \u00a0 This shows a scene in the movie &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Becky_Sharp_(film)\">Becky Sharp<\/a>&#8221; being shot in Technicolor. The Technicolor Corporation<a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/1932-technicolor-and-doctor-x\/\"> tried \u00a0many different techniques<\/a> to simplify colour and make it more natural.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, they began back in the days of <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/silent-movies-and-colour\/\">silent movies<\/a>! The image at left is from the March, 1935 issue of American Cinematographer. Not only were the colour cameras huge, unwieldy machines, but a small army of Technicolor folks were involved in the taking, lighting, and processing of the colour movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. We often seem to be fond of making comparisons. In 1935, Technicolor offered a way to make colour films in Hollywood. The process was downright expensive so only some films &#8211; scenes &#8211; were in &#8216;full colour&#8217;. \u00a0 This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/and-you-thought-your-camera-was-big\/\">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":[14,2724,93,3231],"class_list":["post-22736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-film","tag-hollywood","tag-movie","tag-technicolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736","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=22736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22740,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions\/22740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}