Imperfect Spectrum - A Brief History of Cinecolor (2022)
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A short documentary that examines the Cinecolor film process and labs, in both its two-color and three-color (aka SuperCINEColor) forms.
Originally included as a special feature on "Jack and the Beanstalk - 70th Anniversary Limited Edition" from ClassicFlix. Buy the Blu-Ray and DVD here:
www.classicflix.com/products/...
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Multicolor and Cinecolor's Early Years
1:03 Bipack Color Photography
2:02 Printing Cinecolor (2-color)
3:49 The Late 1940s
5:50 Eastmancolor Introduction
6:37 SuperCineColor Printing
7:58 SuperCineColor Examples
10:27 Houston-Fearless Buys the Company
12:33 The Lab Closes/Lead-Out
13:01 Credits
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Excellent film about the early days of color cinema. Many of Monogram Studios films utilized this unique process. Thank you for all your hard work in making this film!!!
Loved it. Beautifully explained. More, please!
I have several 35mm Cinecolor™ films in my collection. Color has remained reasonably good, considering their age. The main issue I had is that before I acquired them, they had been tightly wound on 2" plastic cores, for probably over 20 years. This made the last 50-100ft of each reel almost impossible to focus, since the inner and outer layers of emulsion had been subjected to a slightly different radius from being stored on the small cores. My solution to the problem was to store them in a "reverse wrap' condition, on the same plastic cores, which reversed the orientation of the 'inner' and 'outer' emulsions. It took about 7 years, but this eventually got the emulsions 'bent' back into registration enough to make the last few minutes of each reel watchable. They are now stored 'tails out' on 4" lab cores, which you can get on special order. The cyan colored sound-tracks do reproduce better on some sound readers than others - - but my experience has been that most of the newer laser diode sound heads handle it well.
Some of the clips you showed were amazing! I'd love to see "Prehistoric Women" and "Riders to the Stars" looking as good as they do in these clips on Blu-ray or DVD.
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Stay tuned!
Great job, Jack!
Great documentary
Note TOR JOHNSON in "The Lady in the Iron Mask".
THIS. IS. JUST. PLAIN. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU!!!
"Pride of the Blue Grass" was the sequel to "Pride of the Green Sky" in 2-strip Technicolor.
Fabulous
Oh Jack! Great documentary on all accounts. Would be great to go back into time and see a actual feature in the theatre in the Cinecolor process. By the way, I do have your JACK AND THE BEANSTALK.
I didn’t know that there had been a three colour version. I have handled a few Cinecolor 35 mm and 16 mm prints, and wondered about the soundtrack and how it was able to use a dye image rather than the silver of Technicolor or the dye plus redeveloped silver of Eastmancolor. I read somewhere that the blue/cyan toning was done using an iron compound which absorbed strongly in the infrared, and so could be read with conventional incandescent exciter lamps and infrared sensitive photocells unlike the cyan dye tracks introduced in recent years which required projectors to be converted to red light readers.
Very well put together. Thanks for sharing.
Nice!
Very informative! Thank you!
Informative and entertaining. Fantastic! Thanks for the enjoyable walk down memory lane.