Word: kalmuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technicolor's success was a typical Hollywood one-man show, by dour, dignified Dr. (of physics) Herbert T. Kalmus, 66, who plays table tennis, wears dark worsted suits, and keeps pretty much to himself...
...Toiled Horses. The co-inventor, developer, majority stockholder and president of Technicolor, Kalmus is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (after which Technicolor was named). He was a professor for several years before he got interested in color photography. With two other M.I.T. graduates, he worked-out a crude color method in 1914, bought out his discouraged partners soon after...
...their place, as a working partner, he installed a fellow Bostonian, his wife Natalie, a pretty woman with flaming red hair (which was fine for color experiments). Kalmus borrowed $300,000 and made his first motion picture, The Gulf Between, in two colors (red and green). Kalmus thought it much better than another color process, British-developed Kinemacolor, then in use. "It was nothing," said Dr. Kalmus of his old competitor, "for a horse to have two tails,. one red and one green...
...Kalmus changed his process for his next picture, Toll of the Sea (1922). It was the first to use Technicolor's present process (in which no filters are used but special dyes are added to the film). It grossed some $250,000, of which Technicolor got more than half, and it sent Kalmus to Hollywood. When Jack Warner grossed $3,500,000 with his Technicolored Gold Diggers of Broadway in 1929, Technicolor hit the big time...
...Irving Berlin Tunes 32," Paramount wrought manfully to include all of the songs. Most of the tunes necessarily receive only cursory treatment, and several of Berlin's better songs, notably most of the magnicent score of "Holiday Inn," are omitted. The latter show, although minus the Natalie Kalmus technicolor enjoyed by "Blue Skies," was essentially a much better picture--good plot, better performances by Crosby and Astaire, and a wonderful assortment of memorable melodies. While not another "Holiday Inn," "Blue Skies" is, nevertheless, a better than ordinary Hollywood product and a fitting vehicle for what may be Fred Astaire...