Three-Strip Technicolor
1932–1955The first true color — three strips of film exposed simultaneously through color filters. Saturated, theatrical, hyperreal.
Three-strip camera with beam-splitting prism. Dye-transfer printing. Natalie Kalmus as 'color consultant' enforcing restrained palettes.
1 artist6 colors
American
The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Singin' in the Rain — Technicolor defined how we imagine the past in color.
Three-strip process captured RGB on separate negatives. Dye-transfer created saturated, stable prints. Colors were more vivid than reality.
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