Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism

by Joshua Yumibe and Mr Joshua Yumibe

Color was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz . Thomas Edison, for example, projected two-colored films at his first public screening in New York City on April 23, 1896. These first colors of early cinema were not photographic; they were applied manually through a variety of laborious processes--most commonly by the hand-coloring and stenciling of prints frame by frame, and the tinting and toning of films in vats of chemical dyes. The results...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813552974
• ISBN13: 9780813552972
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary