Rare Early Three Color Technicolor Segment

[cobolsaurus]

NOthing like 3 strip technicolor

[perfectjazz78]

@cobolsaurus It is, look it up.

[hcwcars1]

im wrong watched it on youtube the house of rothschild

[hcwcars1]

this was just on tcm

[TJae1]

However, pre-dating those classics by more than 20 years was a 1918 silent film called Cupid Angling. This is the accepted 'first' color feature-length film, and is also the oldest listed on IMDB as color

[perfectjazz78]

@TJae1 Yep, for 2 color. This is 3 color

[TJae1]

@perfectjazz78 ~ what colors were involved & what's the title for this 3 color ~ "doo-hickey" :

[perfectjazz78]

@TJae1 This is from House of Rothschild, For more info check out the history of Technicolor website. You can find it by doing a google search

[TJae1]

@perfectjazz78 ~ thnxs 4 the link ~ btw ~

[Watcher3223]

@TJae1

Film is subtractive color, so the primary colors required for full spectrum would be magenta, yellow and cyan. Add all three colors together and you've got black.

In contrast, video is additive color, so the primary colors for full spectrum would be red, green and blue. Add all three colors together and you've got white.

[perfectjazz78]

@Watcher3223 Thanks !

[zackes1990]

Technicolor 3 strip is BEAUTIFUL its a shame they discontinued the process, it was such a revolutionary method back in the day after Kinemascope! now Technicolor is all about Post production color grading and distribution. Still really cool though!

[Garramedia]

The First three striper was "Flowers and Trees" (1932) by Walt Disney

[Garramedia]

The First three stiper was "Flowers and Trees" (1932) by Walt Disney

[POLMAZURKA]

splendid ...its a Mazurka...

[scrappyduke]

1918 silent film called Cupid Angling was the first color feature-length film

[ddmmyyyy]

those red and green dresses at 14 seconds are jawdroppingly beautiful!

[3investigators]

3 strip meant that there were 3 black and white strips of film running through ONE camera at once. Each strip used a specific color filter -i.e. blue, yellow, red. Then each film strip would be given a dye bath in that complementary color and all three strips would be printed onto one strip creating the full spectrum of color (similar to a color printing press)

[chelseapeterson90]

the very first colored film was called cupid angling (1918). i want to know where i can watch it. then it was wizard of oz and gone with that wind !

[VideyoJunkei]

by "3 strip" does it use 3 cameras with color filters?

[WhoahDudeProductions]

3 strip in the 30's was filmed in black and white,copied 3 times and filtered. It was in the 50's when they used one camera filming on three different filtered films.

[Mr1920s]

so vivid.......

[whurdsderodan]

The Arliss couple were so astounding.... I love this movie....  Wasn't Boris Karloff in this film?

[SwingSwindlers]

The film is The House of Rothschild, and as many films of the 30s, it included a colour finale (4 minutes). This had been done before, as early as in the early twenties, but at that time it was the two strip Technicolour (the company produced its first colour films in 1917: The Gap Between and Cupid Angling, but these have not survived). The superior three strip version - which came to be used for more than two decades - was first used by Disney in 1932, in Flowers and Trees.

[cbalducc]

"The Gulf Between", not "The Gap Between". God bless.

[ralphino]

anyone know what year this is? most likely 1934 or is it earlier?

[perfectjazz78]

7 April 1934: Three Color Technicolor several months before the "first three color Technicolor live action sequence "La Cucaracha"" in Fall of 1934

[mabm1980]

The first three stip technicolor live sequence was not this, or "La cucaracha". It was from "The cat and the fiddle" starring Ramon Novarro. 16th February 1934 according to imdb. It's also on youtube.

[Pwntugud]

@ralphino 1918

[Organgrinder010]

I remember seeing this years ago. It's great they made all the costumes as vibrant as possible -the colors really pop at you!