Two strips of 35 mm black and white film negative, one sensitive to blue light and the other to red light, ran together through an aperture behind a magenta filter, which allowed blue and red light to pass through. Technicolor 3 Strip Camera & Prism Assembly DiagramĪbove is a 3-strip Technicolor camera from the 1930s. The process involved capturing the individual colour components red, green and blue on three individual black and white negatives. "Technicolor" is the trademark for a series of colour motion picture processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation (a subsidiary of Technicolor, Inc.), now a division of Technicolor SA. It was used most commonly for filming musicals such as The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain and used for Disney’s animated classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fantasia. It was the most widely used colour process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952 and celebrated for its saturated levels of colour. Technicolor is a colour film printing process invented in 1916.
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