What was the first Technicolor film?
(A quick run-through of color films for the people who have no damn patience to read ten pages about it.) To answer the question above, the first Technicolor film was not The Wizard of Oz. I, the webmaster here, have been asked this question many times and I thought I could possibly clear some things up. Not that I mind being asked, no, not at all, but I hope this page can be a source to people unaware of classic film. The first successful color process was called Kinemacolor and was two-colored. It was developed by George Albert Smith, an Englishman, and he made his first “color” film in 1906. Kinemacolor consisted of both the filming process and projection being done through red and green filters. It was very expensive for the projector and the film went through much wear-and-tear. The film went through the projector two times the normal speed of a regular film. There was a total of fifty-four films made in Kinemcolor in Britian during the years of 1910 and 1912. Turns out, only thre
