Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he would soon discover how and where the boos begin. He was not alone. Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Stage-designer Cleon Throckmorton were his most noteworthy associates. For their first season of production, several plays were mentioned: March Hares, Dracula, The Old Soak, dramatization of Where the Blue Begins, dramatization of Thunder on the Left...
...TALE OF GENJI, PART IV-BLUE TROUSERS-Lady Murasaki, translated by Arthur Waley-Houghton Mifflin...
When at last she died Genji mourned her with elaborate ceremonies (blue trousers were part of the mourning costume), and decided upon monastic retirement. If indeed he took pleasure some months later in the liveliness of one Chujo No Kimi's features, the red and yellow of her trousers, the sombre purple of her robe, it was but the lifetime habit of chivalry in the presence of beauty...
...gelatin sheets tinted to allow the seven primary colors† to pass through. As each section or "frame" of the film pauses its swift fraction of a second behind the camera lens** it receives the impression of a single color. Only those parts of the scene that are blue will be photographed through the blue screen; only the yellow scene parts through the yellow screen; etc. The next frame gets another color impression. And so on around the shutter colors. The photographs are taken a little faster than ordinary moving pictures...
...orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet...