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This article is about the use of multiple colors in cinema. For multicolored animals, see Piebald.
Color test footage filmed during the production of Animal Crackers (1930)

Multicolor is a

motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma Color process, and was the forerunner of Cinecolor
.

For a Multicolor film, a scene is shot with a normal camera capable of bipacking film. Two

ferric ferrocyanide
solution.

Multicolor enjoyed brief success in early sound pictures. The following features included sequences in Multicolor:

Fox Film Corporation except The Great Gabbo (Sono Art-World Wide Pictures), Red Hot Rhythm (Pathé), His First Command (Pathé), This Thing Called Love (Pathé), Good News (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Madam Satan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
).

A sequence in Hell's Angels (1930) was filmed in Multicolor, but printed by Technicolor, as Multicolor could not yet supply as large a demand of printings in such a short amount of time. Multicolor was also utilized in several cartoons of the era.

A 15-second, behind-the-scenes clip in Multicolor of the Marx Brothers filmed on the set of Animal Crackers (1930) exists as part of a Cinecolor short subject entitled Wonderland of California. The first feature filmed entirely in Multicolor was The Hawk (1931), which was re-released five years later in Cinecolor as Phantom of Santa Fe. In 1932, the next (and final) all Multicolor feature, Tex Takes A Holiday (1932), was released.

Howard Hughes was an early investor of Multicolor's Rowland V. Lee and William Worthington.[1]

The Multicolor plant closed in 1932 and their equipment was bought by Cinecolor in 1933.

See also

References

  1. ^ Dietrich, Noah; Thomas, Bob (1972). Howard, The Amazing Mr. Hughes. Greenwich: Fawcett Publications, Inc. pp. 107–110.
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