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Topic: Can-Can........Technicolor?
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Maurice Leakey
Film God
Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted June 25, 2008 11:43 AM
Peter
Interesting. For many years Leonard Doss was a colour consultant for Technicolor.
I am now quoting from Richard W. Haines' book "Technicolor Movies."
"For a few months in 1953, negotiations were under way between Technicolor and the DeLuxe labs to set up a dye transfer line in the latter. A handful of 35mm imbibition prints were made of "How To Marry A Millionaire" and "Beneath The 12-Mile Reef" that contained the credits "Color by Technicolor-DeLuxe." The DeLuxe executives changed their minds and decided to go with the Eastmancolor contact printing system for most of their future 35mm releases, although many of their nontheatrical 16mm prints were made in the dye transfer process. (In some cases, 16mm IB prints are the only DeLuxe titles that still have colour, since the majority of the 35mm colour negatives and prints developed at that facility display severe fading problems.) Had DeLuxe or some other colour labs taken advantage of the decree, we might still have dye transfer printing in the United States."
Other pages talk about the major flaw in the Eastmancolor process that was ignored by the industry at one time. When Kodak offered the process to studio owned labs thay gave specific instructions on processing, etc. However, the labs soon learned quicker ways to process an acceptable image. As the story went Kodak then told these labs if they were not going to process their films correctly, they should use their own trade names rather than Eastmancolor. Thus, Pathe Color, WarnerColor and others were formed.
Back to my Can-Can DVD. This has data in Dutch and French on the package, although rather surprisingly the disc starts with the British F.A.C.T. "Piracy Is Theft" in English. The film also has a four-minute sound overture. The sound is 5.1 and the print is slight letterbox. The colour is better than the TV transmission.
-------------------- Maurice
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