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Topic: B&W Trailers of Technicolor Features

Brad Kimball
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Highland Mills, NY USA
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posted August 04, 2017 08:26 PM

Are these just cheap, crappy dupes or did studios truly release monochrome trailers to promote movies shot in "Glorious Technicolor"?

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Joe Balitzki
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From: Charleston, SC, USA
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posted August 05, 2017 10:36 AM

B&W Prints were struck for Television. Due to the length of the trailers, its doubtful many were actually used. There were B&W prints struck of Feature Films for small television stations that had not converted over to full color yet.

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Maurice Leakey
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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
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posted August 05, 2017 12:03 PM

At one time most film libraries in the UK who hired out features only supplied black & white copies of colour films. This was due to extra charges being made for copies in either Technicolor or Kodachrome.
This was before Eastmancolor made colour films slightly cheaper to print.
Most black & white copies of colour films, including trailers, shorts and cartoons, carried a black "banner" across the words "Colour by Technicolor."

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