Frames from ‘La légende des ondines’ (1911) featured in ‘Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema’ (GIF by the author via Vimeo) Cover of ‘Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema’ (click to enlarge) Its over 300 ...

Creating a movie in monochrome required highly specific, often bizarre choices behind the scenes. Colors that looked natural in real life didn't always translate well to gray-scale film, meaning ...

Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Early Color Cinema Equipment ...

In 1986, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert dedicated a full episode of their syndicated series “At the Movies” to sounding the alarm about the industry’s fascination with colorizing black-and-white films.

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

With a speed of ISO 800, Cinema promises saturated colors and moderate grain. Dubble says that a halo effect will be visible around red light, and when shot during the day, Cinema delivers bluish ...

Major events of American history from the 1920s to the 1960s can be seen now in color thanks to this five-part series—an assortment of scenes, most of them digitally colorized, that cover Prohibition, ...