What is Technicolor?
Because the technical aspects of Technicolor® are a bit complicated, this will be an especially brief and straightforward wiseGEEK treatment. Unless you are a confirmed movie technophile with a burning interest in color timing and dye imbibation processes, this article should cover the essentials of the Technicolor® process. Many people assume that color films didn’t arrive on the scene until the 1930s, but there were a number of silent movies which were either tinted by hand or processed through the very first Technicolor® two-strip technique. The Technicolor® company itself was founded in 1915, and the first silent films to feature the Technicolor process® were released in 1922. At that time, there was no such thing as color film stock, so the challenge was to find a way to create realistic color films from black and white film stock shot with single lens cameras. What the Technicolor® engineers developed was a beam-splitter which would take the original image coming through the came
