Working alone in his Newark, N. J., laboratory Frederick T. O’Grady, inventor in his late 30’s, produced a system of color cinemagraphy that has some advantages over the system recently worked out by ...

25 iconic directors’ first films in color The early 20th-century film industry experienced several technological innovations that would forever define the art form. Along with the genesis of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Early Color Cinema Equipment ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

In 1986, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert dedicated a full episode of their syndicated series “At the Movies” to sounding the alarm about the industry’s fascination with colorizing black-and-white films.

WHAT IT’S ABOUT “Colorizing” black-and-white movies remains controversial, some 30 years after initial attempts to make old films peacock-palatable in a color TV world. The original computer process ...

With a speed of ISO 800, Cinema promises saturated colors and moderate grain. Dubble says that a halo effect will be visible around red light, and when shot during the day, Cinema delivers bluish ...

Kodakman George Eastman had some guests—Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Michael I. Pupin, General John J. Pershing, Owen D. Young and many another bigwig—at his home in Rochester, N. Y., ...