Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spends his mornings in the studio, his armchair drawn up to the easel, painting from the model or still life. The window looks out on to the uncared-for garden, and provides the quietest view in the room. Everywhere else one looks is blazing with color: bright silk cushions, bric-a-brac, copper vases, flowers, fruits, costume jewelry, feathers, and yards of vivid material looped over chairs or hanging ready for his models. In one corner stands a huge aviary which used to be flashing with Milanese pigeons (most of them died during the war). An old-fashioned country telephone...
Black Narcissus (in color) carried off three minor prizes apiece (for art, set and camera direction); a special Oscar went to Italy's magnificent Shoeshine...
Though the Kalmuses were divorced in 1944, Natalie's name still appears on all screen credits for Technicolor. She is credited with being a top color expert herself and was in charge of the color control department (which advises directors on proper clothing colors) for years. One apocryphal story is that her abnormally sensitive eyes perceive colors no one else...
Jaundiced View. Kalmus' ambition is to have all A films made in Technicolor. The biggest obstacle at present is his own company; it needs six months to get out color prints and moviemakers hate to wait that long. Otherwise, most moviemakers would probably be glad to make all their A pictures in Technicolor. The Government takes a different view. As owner of the onetime German company, General Aniline & Film Corp., the Government has a three-color process of its own. It claimed that Technicolor deals with moviemakers - and others - were making it hard to market General Aniline...
Last August the Government charged Technicolor and Eastman Kodak Co., which the Government charges has cross-licensing agreements with Technicolor, with conspiracy to monopolize the industry. But Dr. Kalmus does not profess to be worried about the suit. He insists that his color processes are well known and no secret. Said he: "The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order...