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1950s films looked washed out. Little green in outdoors Westerns or indoors movies.
by peter303 12y ago
1950s films looked washed out. Little green in outdoors Westerns or indoors movies.
- blt 12y agoProbably a limitation of the color film stock at the time. Technicolor used a beam splitter and three strips of black-and-white film. It made super-vivid colors but was expensive. Single-strip color film rose to the top in the 50s and 60s with worse colors, but much cheaper and easier to shoot.
- pkroll 12y agoThe Adventures of Robin Hood, the Errol Flynn movie from 1938, is an excellent example of three-strip Technicolor, and on blu-ray some scenes look like they were shot last week, not 80 years ago.