[rollei_list] Re: OT: Leica Film Length-Now Kodachrome
- From: David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:03:08 -0500
I didn't say that the early color films looked like a cheap postcard.
What I did say is that early three-strip Technicolor and such have
oversaturated color, and that this was probably the result of
technicians giving the film a color pallette similar to what people
were used to seeing on postcards and in magazines.
After a while, once the public became more used to color, the amount
of color saturation was definitely toned down.
It used to be that if you walked into a used bookstore, they would
have boxes and boxes of old postcards for sale. Many people collected
postcards and I doubt people thought of them as "cheap," in some
derogatory sense.
If you take for example photographs of the 1933-34 Century of Progress
exhibition, which took place just prior to the availability of color
film, people either saw black-and-white photographs, or most likely,
color postcards that were either drawings or were hand-tinted photos.
Is it any wonder that the early color films tended to follow this same
sort of color pallette?
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