Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British War Office was taking no chances last week. As thousands of sightseers milled about the Mall and the Horse Guards Parade for the first postwar full-dress Trooping the Color in honor of the King's official birthday,* the War Office called off the show. A curt official announcement blamed the weather. But the crowds stared suspiciously at the bright sun. What was up? Rumors whipped round that King George was flat on his back, .that Queen Mary was dead, that Princess Elizabeth had had a miscarriage, or that somebody had planted a bomb...
Died. Louis Lumière, 83, wealthy motion-picture and color-photography pioneer, whom (with his brother Auguste) Europeans generally credit with inventing the cinema; of a heart ailment; in Bandol, France...
...Color Film. Hollywood finally got a full-length look at General Aniline & Film Corp.'s three-color process (Ansco Color) in the independent movie, Sixteen Fathoms Deep. As the color is incorporated in the negative, making it possible to record it with an ordinary black & white camera, General Aniline hopes that Ansco will eventually compete with Technicolor. In some Sixteen Fathoms scenes Ansco Color, like the new Rouxcolor of Paris' Roux brothers (TIME, June 7), seemed far more natural than the more expensive Technicolor. But in other scenes Ansco Color was washed out, and faces were often only...
...scheme--the first time it has been used--through a simple process of elimination. "First someone suggested Russians, Cossacks I suppose he meant," Victor O. Jones '28 remarked Sunday night, "but we rejected that because of the present situation. Another thought was pirates. Firemen won probably for the nice color and the coolness...
...Hollywood, which has spent millions in its quest for a simple, inexpensive color process, the invention of the Roux brothers seemed too good to be true. Moviemakers had seen too many processes come & go to get excited. But research cameramen have long worked to perfect a process in which the lens and not the film would be the principal color agent. Up to now, experiments with such lenses have not worked out commercially. Hollywood wanted to hear more...