Technicolor

    

    The history behind the revolutionary technicolor motion pictures was nothing short of astonishing. When it first began, the movie industry filmed a shot twice simultaneously using red and green filters. Then, they would take the colored strips and burn them into black and white film, overlapping each other. This was called the additive process. Eventually, the industry realized that there was a limitation using the additive process, and thus explored into the subtractive process using red, green and blue filters. This ended up producing a wider range of colors and did not require special color reels or processing equipment, and thus became the movie industry standard.
    One problem with technicolor was that it was expensive to produce, thus only large companies at the time had the money and resources to produce it. Also, it required a ton more lighting in order to catch images, so the sets were always very hot, and the electric bills were very expensive. The Walt Disney Company became one of the firsts to use technicolor, evident in their first animated movie, Snow White. Eventually, other movie studios were able to afford technicolor, and movies such as The Wizard of Oz and Singin' in the Rain were created.  It was definitely a stepping stone in the movie industry, and paved the way towards digital movie productions later in the future.