Technicolor for Industrial Films
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Technicolor for Industrial Films is a c. 1949 sponsored film
about how Technicolor
can be used in industrial films
. It features footage of various things in Technicolor, showing how it can be used in film making. One scene shows a bunch of everyday goods, first being shown in black and white, then in Technicolor. It is notable because it's an ephemeral film about ephemeral films, and very few ephemeral films were made about ephemeral films at the time this film was made. It is in the Public Domain
.
Sponsored film
Sponsored film, or ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is film made by a particular sponsor for a specific purpose other than as a work of art: the films were designed to serve a specific pragmatic purpose for a limited time...
about how Technicolor
Technicolor
Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...
can be used in industrial films
Sponsored film
Sponsored film, or ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is film made by a particular sponsor for a specific purpose other than as a work of art: the films were designed to serve a specific pragmatic purpose for a limited time...
. It features footage of various things in Technicolor, showing how it can be used in film making. One scene shows a bunch of everyday goods, first being shown in black and white, then in Technicolor. It is notable because it's an ephemeral film about ephemeral films, and very few ephemeral films were made about ephemeral films at the time this film was made. It is in the Public Domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
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