Talk:List of early color feature films
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"Not sure"[edit]
Found two films today on you tube. "King Jazz" (1930) and "It's a Great Life" (1929) sailor iain (talk) 15:47, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
"Early Color"[edit]
Shouldn't this list go up to 1935 with the release of BECKY SHARP? That's generally the cut-off for "early color films." The Photoplayer 23:22, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
1899 Turner Color Wheel Process[edit]
Perhaps we can include the details of this recently discovered natural color process detailed at Curator finds the worlds first ever color movie hidden inside museum vault
Sortable table[edit]
Making the table sort-able would distinguish between full length features and those with colour inserts. The preview table below shows some selected lines from the main article to demonstrate the general idea. I have split up the two original Country/Date and Process/Type columns into four columns. Default view is sorted by date, as in the original. Numerical columns sort properly, and a shift-click (as usual) sorts by a second column (eg click Type, then shift-click Length). Refresh or F5 for original view. Also, added some copy with refs to clear up a few points.
| Title | Country | Date | Color process | Type | Length (of film or inserts) | Company | Preservation status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) | France | 1902 | Hand-colored | feature | 845 ft. | Star Film Company | One color copy exists. By modern standards, this would be a 'short' film rather than a feature. |
| Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ | France | 1903 | Pathéchrome | inserts | Pathé Frères | Extant. Also known as The Passion Play and Vie et Passion du Christ. Not released as a single feature, but as 32 individual shorts in three different groupings and shot at different times. Some scenes are partially hand coloured (eg 44-minute copy on YouTube). The later scenes feature different actors and costumes from the earlier scenes.[1] | |
| With Our King and Queen Through India | UK | 1912 | Kinemacolor | feature-length documentary | 16000 ft. | National Kinemacolor Ltd. | First feature-length documentary capturing natural color rather than colorization techniques. The original footage ran for 2½ hours (16,000 ft.), presented in two different programmes. The main film of the Delhi Durbar itself was shot on 12 December 1911. The rest of the film was made in other locations in India up to 30 December 1911, of which only a ten-minute extract still exists. Released in UK on 2 February 1912.[2] |
| The Miracle | UK | 1912 | Pathéchrome | feature | 7000 ft. | Joseph Menchen (personal project) | First stencil-colored, feature-length, narrative film in full colour. Filmed in Austria in October 1912, UK release on 21 December 1912. Originally announced with running time 2 hours (7,000 feet), with released versions of 5,500 feet. A shorter black-and-white print is extant, held at the CNC Archives, France. |
| The World, the Flesh and the Devil | UK | 1914 | Kinemacolor | feature | National Kinemacolor Ltd. | First feature-length narrative film in natural color. Lost film. | |
| Joan the Woman | US | 1916 | Handschiegl Color Process | inserts | Famous Players-Lasky | Survives complete with color sequences. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. (Color was billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process") | |
| The Gulf Between | US | 1917 | Technicolor | feature | Technicolor Corporation | First American film shot in full color. Lost film (a few frames of the film exist, showing star Grace Darmond) | |
| Bali the Unknown | US | 1921 | Prizma | feature-length documentary | Prizma Inc. | Five-reel documentary opened 27 February 1921 at Capitol Theatre in NYC | |
| The Toll of the Sea | US | 1922 | Technicolor | feature | 3190 ft. | Technicolor/Metro Pictures | First color film in Hollywood. Last two reels are lost. Available on DVD. |
| A Blind Bargain | US | 1922 | Handschiegl Color Process | inserts | 188 ft. | Goldwyn Pictures | Lost film. |
| Cytherea | US | 1924 | Technicolor | inserts | 230 ft. | Technicolor/Goldwyn Pictures | Lost film. First Technicolor film shot under artificial light. |
| Legong: Dance of the Virgins | US | 1935 | Technicolor | feature-length documentary | 5054 ft | DuWorld Pictures (US)/Paramount (intl) | Produced by Constance Bennett and Henri de la Falaise. Feature-length documentary filmed entirely in Technicolor. Restored in 1999 by UCLA Film and Television Archive. On DVD. |
References
- ^ Abel, Richard (1998) The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914. University of California Press ISBN 9780520912915, p.576
- ^ McKernan, Luke (2009). ‘The modern Elixir of Life’: Kinemacolor, royalty and the Delhi Durbar, in Film History, Vol. 21, pp. 122–136, 2009.
Thoughts, anyone? >MinorProphet (talk) 09:46, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Edited by a time traveler?[edit]
Today is November 28, 2015. Which may explain why I find the description of the state of The Rogue Song somewhat surprising: "Complete technicolor print was discovered in Prague December 2015 and premiered at the talking film festival in October 2016". No references provided. vttoth (talk) 17:25, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
Dyes and colors[edit]
So because the dyes and colors were added by a PERSON ( that is NOT yelling , that is putting extra emphasis on a word , you know . . . . . . like how most regular speak ? Lol ) , they can be arbitrary or have mistakes ??? That really seems to be written wrong and doesn't even make much sense . Maybe it made more sense in the context of whatever it was written in originally , but doesn't make much sense just being copied from something and entering it into this Wiki article without the prior context . Seems like the writer of this is some HUGE fan of robotics and A.I. and thinks people are mostly useless , supremely flawed , and constantly make mistakes ........ to the point were humans should NEVER be trusted to do something important . It reads like " ..... because the coloring was done by a PERSON , it's clearly and obviously flawed . The nerve of those movie makers trusting a mere human to do something of such great importance " . Lol ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .
This is NOT mean spirited or insulting , so it shouldn't be taken as either . It's just an in depth observation and explanation of how that comment reads and demonstrates why it doesn't make much sense . No one should get their panties in a bunch over me simply telling you I think the way this was written doesn't make much sense and is a little too opinionated seemingly by someone who thinks very highly of and loves robots and A.I. , but doesn't seem to realize they didn't even have that stuff back then . Lol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.233.70.198 (talk) 18:10, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
- I'm feeling ya, blud. MinorProphet (talk) 23:56, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
La vie de notre seigneur[edit]
Deletion proposal:
It was evidently not designed, shown, or thought of as a feature film. Maybe it's one of the first serials or soaps. Although I am loth to suggest it, I think that maybe it doesn't really belong on the list. MinorProphet (talk) 02:41, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
Georges Méliès[edit]
I removed the first entry, Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon because it, like all of Méliès’s work, is not a feature film. If the article title was amended, to “ List of early color films” it could be included, but then there quite a few other Méliès films in colour that would have to be included as well.--Lairor (talk) 19:59, 29 March 2020 (UTC)