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Moving color : early film, mass culture, modernism / Joshua Yumibe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yumibe, Joshua, 1974-
- Series:
- Techniques of the moving image.
- Techniques of the moving image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Color cinematography--History.
- Color cinematography.
- Colorization of motion pictures--History.
- Colorization of motion pictures.
- Silent films--History and criticism.
- Silent films.
- Colors in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Color was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz. Thomas Edison, for example, projected two-colored films at his first public screening in New York City on April 23, 1896. These first colors of early cinema were not photographic; they were applied manually through a variety of laborious processes-most commonly by the hand-coloring and stenciling of prints frame by frame, and the tinting and toning of films in vats of chemical dyes. The results were remarkably beautiful.; Moving Color is the first book-length study of the beginnings of color cinema. Looking backward, Joshua Yumibe traces
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Paolo Cherchi Usai
- Introduction
- The colors of modernity
- Hand coloring and the intermediality of the cinema
- Transformation and uplift: stenciling, tinting, and toning
- Color cinema, from gentility to abstraction
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-49227-9
- 9786613587503
- OCLC:
- 793996631
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