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Skriven 2006-05-16 17:08:36 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 29703 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
Ärende: WWII in Color
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16 May 06 08:10, Dan Ceppa wrote to Roy Witt:

 DC> On 15 May 06  09:49:41, Roy Witt got back to Dan Ceppa
 DC> -> Re: WWII in Color

 DC>> Actually, it was already available.  And, I don't mean colorized
 DC>> versions.  In a PBS series, all of the WWII footage is from
 DC>> color film.  There is even a short sequence of a WWI scene that
 DC>> was shot in color.

 RW>> It may have been 'colorized' - but it was definately not shot in
 RW>> color. According to  the all knowing Phil Lozer; "since color wasn't
 RW>> invented then?"

 DC> He was corrected on that matter, as was I when I saw the series
 DC> showing only color film of WWII.  None if it, nor that short snippet
 DC> of WWI were Turner-ized.  If you haven't seen it, find it.

"Historical films have been made since the first years of motion
pictures. The Edison Manufacturing Company, for example, shot
several historical tableaux vivants, including Joan of Arc (1895)
and The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895);(4) and the
French film pioneer Georges MéliŠs made several short films such
as Cléopatre (1899), Neptune et Amphitrite (1899) and Les torches
humaines de Justinien (1908)."

"It is difficult to estimate how important a role hand-
applied coloring had in these historical films. According to some
previously released collections of early cinema, films colored
by hand were usually fantastic adventures like MéliŠs' Voyage
  travers l'impossible (1904), or fairy tales like Pathé's Ali
Baba et les quarantes voleurs (1905).(6) Although the latter
could perhaps be characterized as a historical film in the
broader sense of the concept, usually films which were made as
representations of historical events were not colored. It has to
be remembered, however, that during the early cinema historical
film was not an important genre in the flow of production. During
the first decade of the century, films became longer and soon
hand-coloring was replaced by toning and tinting."

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"In the first few years after the introduction of three-
component Technicolor (originally used in the Disney
cartoon Flowers and Trees in 1932), the great majority of
films employing the process were produced within genres not
notably realistic in the sense of their being accurate
representations of what "life" is "like". It can be argued,
of course, that not many Hollywood pictures represent what
life is like; but it nevertheless remains true that a kind
of hierarchy ranks genres according to the extent to which
the world they portray, fictional or not, is close to what
the audience believes the world to be like. Thus at one end
of the scale we find newsreels, documentaries, war films,
crime films, etc. and at the other cartoons, musicals,
westerns, costume romances, fantasies, comedies. Virtually
all the early three-component Technicolor pictures are in
these latter genres.(15)

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"It must be added that the early Technicolor films where usually
big budget productions. Newsreels and documentaries could not be
done in color simply for productional reasons. Maybe this
inclination to genres that could use color, however, created a
situation where the audience began to associate monochrome with
reality, and color with fantasy."

 DC> The best sequence is the narration of a letter and the juxtaposition
 DC> of a shot of baby shoes over the pilot's windscreen.  I won't
 DC> mention anymore than that.

As pointed out above, the film used would have been hand painted
during the early days of film up to 1932, with the invention of
technicolor film.

Unlike you, I'll provide the url of the web site where I found this
treatise on the history of color in movie film.

http://users.utu.fi/hansalmi/color.html


Roy
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