Thoughts on this Technicolor short from 1935?

[Vivaldi]

3 Strip Technicolor usage from 1935

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It is not this short. It is the short version of the short.

[abc3643]

Here's a longer clip from the MGM promotional short "Starlit Days at the Lido". I'd like to see the whole clip. I like the music from the 1930s and seeing some of the stars is enjoyable for someone my age. Yeah, color films on a regular basis was still about 3 decades away. By around 1963ish, all major studio movies were color.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wbXJYZmqstE

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[Vivaldi]

Color movies became very common in United States as of 1954 with Kodak Eastmancolor films

[Vivaldi]

Major Hollywood Studios used Eastmancolor films for their films as of 1950s but labs put their name on what was actually Eastmancolor.

Color by Deluxe, Metrocolor, Warner Color etc. All were Eastmancolor.

[Vivaldi]

Thanks for the long version of the short film

[abc3643]

Color films were more common by 1954, yes, but they were not the majority at all. Color was expensive so most movies continued to film in black and white. The major pictures like The Ten Commandments or Ben-Hur was in color. Color became the dominant form by the early to mid-1960s. Same thing with TV. By 1966, almost all shows were produced in color.

[Vivaldi]

Most movies produced by major hollywood studios were in color as of 1954.

There are also low budget color movies from 50s. Pretty low budget.

[Vivaldi]

Color got quite cheap in 1950s for Major Hollywood Studios indeed.

[Vivaldi]

I saw a very low budget color American movie from 1953. Shot on Agfacolor.

Agfacolor is an exception in American films. Normally, they were shot on Eastmancolor if shot on color negative

[Vivaldi]

Color negative used is Ansco Color but it is the name of Agfacolor in USA

[abc3643]

There were lots of "major movies" still in black and white even in the early 1960s.
For instance:
"Psycho" (1960)
"To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962)
"Dr. Strangelove" (1964)
"The Bedford Incident" (1965)

In fact, "Psycho" is a good example.
"Psycho" is a 1960 black-and-white Alfred Hitchcock film. Hitchcock was well-established before this so any of his films were expected to be commercial successes and "Psycho" was.
Yet, Hitchcock's next film is "The Birds", his 1963 color movie.

This comes from Google Gemini:
"Psycho" is in black and white primarily because Alfred Hitchcock chose to shoot it that way to save money on the budget, as color film was more expensive at the time, and he wanted to keep the production costs low...

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The reason for wanting to keep production costs low was that Paramount only gave him $800k to make the movie.

So, really, the end of movies generally being black-and-white was around 1966. Whatever the costs of color film were by then, they were sufficiently cheap that almost every movie was in color by 1966. On notable exception is "Night of the Living Dead", an independent B/W film made in 1968 on a budget of $100k.

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[Vivaldi]

In 1954 most hollywood movies became in color

I know a very low budget American movie from 1953 shot on Ansco Color

[Vivaldi]

Eastmancolor and Ansco Color Films existed in 50s, which made color far too cheaper. Nothing like older Technicolor.

DR. strange love (1964) was shot on bw for artistic reason. Budget had nothing to do with it.

[Vivaldi]

Color American movie from 1953, shot on Ansco Color.

Imdb says budget is only 100.000$

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0046320/

[Vivaldi]

As of 1954, there is only 2 bw Hitchcock movie. Before Pysco, he was making color movies.

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Look, we are going back and forth and I am not sure what we are even "arguing" (if we are arguing) about.
The fact of the matter is that, while color movies existed for decades, they were not the dominant movie form until the mid-1960s. Both TV and movies made that transition around the same time.
After 1965, it is rare to see new movies or TV shows that are not in color.
As someone who was alive then, I am well-aware of this transition.

by the way, a good example of the transition is "I Dream of Jeannie". It's first season was 1965-1966 and it was produced in B/W because the producers did not expect it to make it to a second season since it was something of a rip-off of "Bewitched". But, IDOJ was a success so the producers invested in the show and made the remaining 4 seasons in color.

I am muting this question.

[Vivaldi]

Have you seen the 1953 color movie shot on Ansco Color?

100.000$ budget. Very low budget.

[Vivaldi]

I put the imdb link of the movie above. Go and see it.