Natural color was a term used in the beginning of film and later on in the 1920s, and early 1930s as a color film process that actually filmed color images, rather than a color tinted or colorized movie. The first natural color processes were in the 1900s and 1910s and were two color additive color processes or red and green missing primary color blue, one additive process of time was Kinemacolor . By the 1920s, subtractive color was mostly in use with such processes as Technicolor , Prizma and Multicolor , but Multicolor was mostly never in use in the late 1920s , Technicolor was mostly in use. The only one who cared to mess with Multicolor was William Fox , probably because Multicolor was more cheaper of a process and at the time in 1929 William Fox was in debt . The difference between additive color and subtractive color were that an additive color film required a special projector that could project two components of film at the same time, a green record and a red record. But additive color didn't required a special projector, the two pieces of film were chemically formed together and was projected in one strip of film.
18-407: One of the first movies to use subtractive color was a silent film titled Cupid Angling (1918). In 1932, Walt Disney made the first film to use a red, green and blue color process (Technicolor), Flowers and Trees . Three years later, the first feature length movie to be filmed entirely in 3-color Technicolor was Becky Sharp . The first color features were made in the 1910s. The very first
36-677: A silent film , also entitled Shore Leave , starring Richard Barthelmess and Dorothy Mackaill . Osborne's play would also be remade into another musical version, Follow the Fleet , in 1936, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers . One reel of the film survives at the Eye Filmmuseum archive with an estimated running time of six minutes and thirty four seconds. In the surviving portion Jack Oakie (as Bilge) and Polly Walker (as Looloo) sing "The Harbor Of My Heart" in Looloo's coffee shop shortly after
54-552: A four-minute opening of part two. While most companies used Technicolor, William Fox , owner of Fox Movie Corporation, used Multicolor . Color movies released in 1930 included The Life of the Party (Warner Bros.), Under a Texas Moon (Warner Bros.), Children of Pleasure (MGM), Chasing Rainbows (MGM), Show Girl in Hollywood (Warner Bros., one of Al Jolson 's first color appearances), Viennese Nights (Warner Bros.), Hit
72-460: Is now considered a lost film . This 1910s drama film-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hit the Deck (1930 film) Hit the Deck is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film directed by Luther Reed and starring Jack Oakie and Polly Walker, with Technicolor sequences. It was based on the 1927 musical Hit the Deck , which was itself based on
90-447: The 1922 play Shore Leave by Hubert Osborne. It was one of the most expensive productions of RKO Radio Pictures up to that time, and one of the most expensive productions of 1930. This version faithfully reproduced the stage version of the musical. Looloo runs a diner which is frequented with U.S. Navy sailors on shore leave, including officers. Two officers, Admiral Smith and Lieutenant Allen, accompany wealthy socialite Mrs. Payne to
108-418: The Deck ( RKO Radio Pictures ), and Leathernecking (RKO), The Cuckoos (RKO). Like 1929, the original color negatives for many movies of the year are considered lost and only survive in black-and-white due to the studios wanting more space in their film vaults so they threw away the films and aired them on black-and-white television before, but some color movies from this time have been found throughout
126-508: The captain of his own ship after he leaves the Navy. Before things go too far, Bilge's shipmates drag him back to his ship, which is scheduled to set sail. Based on her conversation with Bilge, Looloo decides to sell her necklace to Mrs. Payne in order to get the funds necessary to buy a ship for Bilge. When Bilge's ship docks once again, the two lovers are re-united, and Bilge proposes to Looloo, who happily accepts. However, when she tells him about
144-473: The color talking movies made in 1929 mostly survive in 1950s black-and-white television copies or with color sequences cut. In 1929, Technicolor was so busy filming color movies that the Warner Bros. musical revue The Show of Shows (1929), which was originally going to be filmed in full color, had to be filmed only mostly in color, with 21 minutes in black and white , a seventeen-minute section of part one and
162-487: The establishment. Mrs. Payne is an heiress, and when she engages in conversation with Looloo, she expresses admiration for the necklace Looloo is wearing. She offers to purchase it for a substantial sum, but it is a family heirloom and Looloo refuses. Later, two sailors arrive at the diner, Bilge and Clarence, looking for Lavinia, Clarence's sweetheart who has run away. Bilge, is smitten with Looloo, and begins to romance her. Opening up to her, he reveals his desire to become
180-580: The first movie made in their second color process, called process 2. The movie was The Toll of the Sea . It was the first color feature made in Hollywood. The movie starred Anna May Wong . Wong never thought the movie would ever make it to the screen, but it did. In 1923, Paramount Pictures made the Cecil B. De Mille partial Technicolor epic The Ten Commandments , which would be remade 33 years later by DeMille in 1956, also in color by Technicolor. Also in 1923, Prizma
198-399: The money, and the plans she has made to help him buy his own ship, his pride makes him indignant and he storms off. However, he later returns and the two agree to marry. The film made a profit of $ 145,000. Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times critic, gave the film a lackluster review, writing that it "is anything but an inspired entertainment. Except for one or two sequences, the mixing of
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#1732876592934216-734: The sequence only survives in black-and-white television prints from the 1950s. That year, Warner Bros. made the first all color-all talking movie, On with the Show , which also only survives in black and white, with only a small fragment of surviving color, found in 2005. Later in 1929, the first color talking movies were being made, such as Paris (Warner Bros.), Rio Rita ( RKO , first RKO color movie, color sequenced), Sally (Warner Bros., third all-color, all-talking feature), Gold Diggers of Broadway (Warner Bros., second all-color, all-talking feature), The Hollywood Revue (MGM's second musical, after The Broadway Melody ) and many more. Most of
234-537: The shop closes and they are left alone. Looloo then proceeds to go into the kitchen to make some food for Bilge while he washes up. While the food is cooking, we see Looloo calling Mrs. Payne (Ethel Clayton) in order to sell her necklace. Meanwhile, Bilge's friends come by and he goes with them. Before leaving Bilge promises Lavinia who works at Looloo's coffee shop (played by Marguerita Padula) that he will be back in half an hour. The surviving reel ends with Looloo waiting for Bilge to come back. The last known complete copy of
252-556: The story and spectacle doesn't jell. The fun is labored and the romance is more painful than sympathetic." The Broadway musical, Hit the Deck , on which this film is based was written by Herbert Fields , with music by Vincent Youmans, and lyrics by Leo Robin and Clifford Grey; it premiered in New York City on April 25, 1927. That musical was based on an earlier play, Shore Leave , written by Hubert Osborne, which premiered in New York City on August 8, 1922. The play had been made into
270-497: The years. In 1932, Walt Disney released the first three-color Technicolor film, Flowers and Trees . 1939, which is considered by many film buffs as Hollywood's greatest year, had hits in color, such as The Wizard of Oz , The Women , Dodge City and the most successful of them all, Gone with the Wind . Process has been explained in a 1940 publishing, and in a 2013 historic overview. Cupid Angling Cupid Angling
288-578: Was With Our King and Queen Through India (1912). In 1917, Technicolor made their first film, a two-color additive film entitled The Gulf Between (1917), The Gulf Between was also the first color feature in America, but rather than being filmed in Hollywood it was actually filmed in Jacksonville Florida . Today The Gulf Between is lost . In 1922, Technicolor made their second feature and also
306-858: Was a 1918 silent film starring Ruth Roland , and was the only feature film photographed using the Douglass Natural Color process. The film was produced by Leon F. Douglass 's National Color Film Company in the Lake Lagunitas area of Marin County, California , and was made in the Douglass Natural Color process. Douglass was also a partner in the founding of the Victor Talking Machine Company . The film stars Ruth Roland and Albert Morrison , and has walk-on appearances by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks . This film
324-516: Was used to film the 1923 version of Vanity Fair . The third feature to be filmed entirely in color by Technicolor was Wanderer of the Wasteland , today a lost film , released in 1924. It was advertised as being filmed in 100% Natural Color. Technicolor made many more silent films in color through the years, but in 1929, the first talking picture to use a color (Technicolor) sequence was The Broadway Melody . The color hues of that sequence are lost;
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