[rollei_list] Re: ...Kodachromes taken 50 years ago "Processed by Technicolor R"
- From: David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 18:23:04 -0500
When you made a movie in Technicolor, you had to hire a color consultant.
In the early days, it was usually Natalie Kalmas.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> 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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