Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge received a five-months-old thoroughbred setter puppy, by name "Palo Alto," as a gift from Claire Wildner, Superior realtor. He was told that that the flecks of color on the dog's coat were called "ticks...
...point of fact, Painter John was coming to the U. S. to portray Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts, together with his wife and four children. The portrait, if typically successful, would doubtless be bright in color, not too careful in detail; it would be possible to recognize in its style the influence of Gaugin and more especially Cezanne. The canvass would be notable for a certain quality of excitement combined with certainty of technique...
Unlike these two Englishmen is Zuloaga, called the modern El Greco, the modern Goya, and other foolish titles. A bald and portly Latin with a bushy moustache which grows lighter in color and smaller with the years, Zuloaga is spectacularly and entirely Spanish. His work, though loud, is sound. Like many fashionable artists, he has ingratiating traits of personality which cause his patrons to regard him as a gentle and delectable monster. When he exhibited in the U. S. four years ago, he sold $100,000 of paintings on the first day of the show and Governor Fuller outdid himself...
...present O'Grady system, called Natural Color, uses a revolving shutter attachable to any standard size movie camera. The shutter contains a circle of 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...
...reproduction, a similar shutter is fixed to a projecting machine. Before starting the machine the operator adjusts film and shutter so that the frame that is to show red is back of the projecting lens and the red gelatin before the lenses. Then as the picture goes, frames and color shutters follow in unison and so rapidly that to the eye the colored scene parts upon the projection screen appear as a composite, whole, colored moving picture...