Technicolor And Kodak History

There was also James Clerk Maxwell who was responsible for creating the first color images, even though they weren’t as clear as the Lumière brothers’ pictures. His idea was to use a standard black-and-white picture and to take three images; one with a red filter, one with a blue filter, and one with a green filter. He merged the ideas of light frequency and the color wheel, and most of his coloring principals are still used in today’s films (Grayson, “How Color Changed the Movies). Following the timeline of the development of color in film, after the Lumière brothers in 1903, Kodak, an emerging photography company, introduces kodacolor in 1928. Again, in 1932, the Lumière brothers come up with an improvement of the autochrome process called
(Uhrhane, “Timeline of Color Photography”). Kodak remained the primary source of cameras used to film until technicolor was introduced in 1916. Technicolor is a film color process created by Kalmus, Comstock, and Westcott in 1915. Together they created a company and began making strip processes to create the perfect motion picture in color. They made up to four processes before coming to one that was satisfying and it took them around sixteen years to do so (“Invention | Technicolor Film”). In 1932, the technicolor company produced its “three-strip camera. However, and as unlikely as it may seem, many were not open to the new “color films” as it was rather expensive. Consequently, many films were still being made in black in white even in the 1950s (Richard et al., 22, 27). It was the same when “talkies” were introduced, and the actors felt uncomfortable with their voices being heard on the grounds that many of actors and actresses had heavy accents. Regardless, the company still made headway and went on to become a great revolutionary turn in the history of film. The first but unsuccessful film to be made with
2-D animation films improved as regular films did using the different color processes and cameras as time went along. However, animation had a breakthrough when 3-D animation was introduced by Ed Catmull in 1972. It was not a film but it was an experiment. During this time, technology was increasing and improving, so computers were then used to create 2-D and 3-D animation. The first Disney 3-D animated film is Toy Story made in 1995; however, Disney partnered with Pixar studios to create this computer animated film. These are some of the top current film studio companies and producers: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, 20th Century Fox (21st Century Fox), DreamWorks, Universal Studios, and Paramount Pictures. Today, computer animation is a more popular form of