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Post #641590

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Zip Doodah
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Song Of The South - many projects, much info & discussion thread (Released)
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Date created
28-May-2013, 3:30 PM

Some of the issues with Technicolor film are related to how the process worked, both in filming and in printing. 2 of the 3 negs running through a Technicolor Camera were bi-packed, the third color record was recorded with a prism. There were huge baffles all around the camera to keep it quieter since they were quite noisy. All three strips were of course black and white film. The lab would then make a raised neg from these materials, then they were printed in a similar manner as a magazine or book. There was a great issue years ago of a magazine called 'The perfect Image' that had a great article on Technicolor.  The shifts we are seeing in color is just as the actual print is.. and watching color shifts happen from scene to scene is common in a technicolor film print. None of this has much to do with the Telecine process in all likely-hood, through the blacks may be crushed in one shot in telecine, then fine in the next since it's only a one light transfer...

 

Technicolor went to a single Eastmancolor neg somewhere right around 1950 or 51. The real value of those older Technicolor records is that they preserve the color in separations, so they won't 'lose' color photochemically at all...