It’s no secret that Walt Disney put his career on the line with his remake of the famed Brothers Grimm fairytale. There were two movies that changed everything for color in film and the world of animation: these were Snow White and the Seven Dwarfsand The Wizard of Oz. From 1920 to 1935, the cinema industry had gone through enormous change, institutionally (from Pre-Code to Hays-code), structurally (silent to “talkies”), and technologically (black and white to color).īut although many knew about the changes, few had seen them all put together in a single picture. At the time, this was viewed as a quantum leap forward for cinema.
The first Technicolor film shot entirely in Technicolor’s three color process was Becky Sharp in 1935. Color in Cinema What was the first Technicolor movie? But by this point, and for the first time, Technicolor filmmaking was made widely possible. It’s entirely mobile, operable, and easy to use - meanwhile the “blimp” required an insane amount of knowledge and technical skill to operate. Today, everybody with a smartphone has an HD camera at their disposal. Just think about how big that “blimp” camera was! It’s easy to forget just how different the filmmaking process was then compared to now. The three strip process required a gargantuan amount of work from the Pre-Production process all the way through Post-Production.
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