Friday, May 10, 2019

The First Color Films Were Hand-Painted by Female Artists

Frame scan from nitrate film print of Voyage sur Jupiter, 1909,
from Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema, 2015.
Published by Eye / Amsterdam University Press.

Women who labored in film-coloring workshops spent their long days peering into powerful magnifying glasses as they applied dye with brushes as fine as a single camel hair. Working on a tiny 35mm canvas required precision, particularly when an errant brushstroke could have ruined an entire frame.



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