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When talking about color, everyone talks about 3-Strip Technicolor. What I want to know is the color process that came after that-Eastmancolor. I have found very little information on this.

What I have found is in 1952, Kodak and Ansco came up with workable film stock of color. This film stock could be used in regular Black and White cameras. This led to a varity of labs that produced color films (Anscocolor, Metrocolor, Warnercolor, Pathecolor, DeLuxe, etc.). Also, Technicolor continued to use their dye-imibition process but to get the matricies out of the Eastman strips.

What I want to know is the specifics. For example, what made some labs (like Metrocolor and Ansco) better than other labs (like Warnercolor and DeLuxe)? What it just the quality of the labs or was there a chemical process they did? Also, what was the difference between a credit that said "Filmed in Anscocolor (or Deluxe, Metrocolor, etc.), Prints by Technicolor" versus just "Color by Technicolor"? Is there any book I can find about 1950s and 60s film color processes? Any help would be much appreciated.

pzman84 wrote:When talking about color, everyone talks about 3-Strip Technicolor. What I want to know is the color process that came after that-Eastmancolor. I have found very little information on this.

What I have found is in 1952, Kodak and Ansco came up with workable film stock of color. This film stock could be used in regular Black and White cameras. This led to a varity of labs that produced color films (Anscocolor, Metrocolor, Warnercolor, Pathecolor, DeLuxe, etc.). Also, Technicolor continued to use their dye-imibition process but to get the matricies out of the Eastman strips.

What I want to know is the specifics. For example, what made some labs (like Metrocolor and Ansco) better than other labs (like Warnercolor and DeLuxe)? What it just the quality of the labs or was there a chemical process they did? Also, what was the difference between a credit that said "Filmed in Anscocolor (or Deluxe, Metrocolor, etc.), Prints by Technicolor" versus just "Color by Technicolor"? Is there any book I can find about 1950s and 60s film color processes? Any help would be much appreciated.

You have just walked into DaveHare's private room-- that's him polishing that thing in the middle of the room: his Rosetta Stone... IB's.

Locate this book.

A HISTORY OF MOTION PICTURE COLOR TECHNOLOGY by Roderick Ryan published by The Focal Press. The edition I have is from 1977, but there might be later editions. ISBN. 0 240 50953 6

The book breaks out every major color system used in film. It covers Tinting and toning, the various additive systems, lenticular color, the basic subtractive color processes and all of the other subcategories.... Ansco Color, Reversal stocks, Fuji, Agfa-Gevaert, Gaspar Color, and of course Eastman Color.

Just digging up this old thread.

Can anyone list some prime example films, with optimal use of the different types of color systems?

I really love the slightly muted, pastel tones of Agfacolor, but it only looks good if it's fully restored. A prime example for this would be the 1943 "Münchhausen", but you'd need the newer restoration (released in Germany on a two disc set) to see it in full glory, not the earlier version released by Eureka in the UK.