[rollei_list] Re: ...Kodachromes taken 50 years ago "Processed by Technicolor R"
- From: Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 15:44:29 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
I found a note, I think in the Bulletin of the Technical Committee of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (not sure I have that title
correct) that Technicolor used special low-contrast Kodachrome for some
difficult location photography. I believe some of the exterior shots in
"Shane" were made on special Kodachrome and the printing matrices made from
that. I don't have easy access to the archive of the Bulletin, frustrating
since it has quite a lot of detailed information on the process by which
various Hollywood feature pictures were made and also gives full credits for
camera and sound crews. Kodak offered low-contrast Kodachrome in 16mm for
original photography where the film was to be duplicated. This was quite
commonly used for industrial and educational pictures before color
negative-positive processes became available. Technicolor made IB prints in
16mm as well as 35mm so probably printed from this film. Technicolor wanted to
get rid of the color-separation cameras for some time because they were large
and clumsy and the process difficult. They experimented with various
multi-layer films but did not drop the three-color cameras until Kodak came out
with Eastman Color Negative. There is a noticeable difference in the color
rendition of pictures made with the three-color cameras and ECN. The overall
quality of the IB prints fell off a lot as the process was speeded up and other
changes made in order to be competitive with newer processes. I was able to
see original issue Technicolor prints going back to their two-color process,
mostly from the UCLA archive. These are no longer projectable due to the
degradation of the nitrate film base.
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Richard Knoppow
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Los Angeles, CA, USA
-----Original Message-----
>From: CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Aug 8, 2014 1:54 PM
>To: "rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [rollei_list] Re: ...Kodachromes taken 50 years ago "Processed by
>Technicolor R"
>
>Yes Richard and David, after a brief research it's clear that
>Technicolor working as lab developed "my" Kodachrome as Kodachrome,
>using the K 14 process. I found an interesting thread in Flickr where
>a well known photographer in the site comments he has his father's
>Kodachromes with frames containing identical data regarding my
>father's Kodachromes and he wanted to know about the
>Kodachrome-Technicolor relationship and facts were that the
>Technicolor lab was authorized to process Kodachrome.
>I obtained this link from that thread, you can see under the year
>"1958" my frames, they are identical except for the date, "NOV 58" and
>my frames "DEC 59", the image caption says: " Technicolor labs; a
>collection of film laboratories across the world owned and run by
>Technicolor for post-production services including developing,
>printing, and transferring films in all major developing processes, as
>well as Technicolor's proprietary ones. (1922 - present).."
>http://www.zoggavia.com/Kodachrome_Slide_Film.html
>
>Carlos
>
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