Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 21:54:02 -0500 To: J Geoff Malta From: josiah@interport.net (Josiah N. Gluck) Subject: The Johnny Fontaine Story in Technicolor Dear Geoff: Well VERY briefly--- Real bonafide Technicolor of the "GWTW" "Oz" "On The Town" etc variety was filmed in a really, really big camera, with 3-strips of film in it. It basically shot color-separations [red, green, & blue] in the camera, and via fancy lab work, you generated printing "matricies" of Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta. These YCMs were then imbibed with dye {YCM} and transfered to blank stock that absorbed the dye. The main advantage was that the prints were like lithographs--they were printed in layers and were not a result of a photo-chemical reaction. The colors are vivid and stay stable for decades, and do not fade to the sickening shades of brown and magenta like single strip [a/k/a/ monopack] Eastmancolor. NOW--- The 3-strip behemoth of a camera was phased out by 1955, but Technicolor still offered IB [imbibition process] prints. They would take cut camera negative, generate color seps, and THEN do IB-dye transfer printing. That system was phased out in the mid 70's. The last film done that way in the USA was GFII. Apparently, there are some IB prints of "star Wars" from Technicolor Ltd. UK If you can find a high-end video journal called The Perfect Vision, try to locate issue #10 volume 3. VERY good info about technicolor in it. Well--I gotta go. Apollonia is bringing the car around. ciao Josiah Josiah N. Gluck Audio Production Services New York, NY USA http://www.users.interport.net/~josiah