Trucolor was a process used and owned by Consolidated Film Industries division of Republic Pictures. Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory and film processing company and was the leading film laboratory in the Los Angeles area for many decades Republic Pictures (also known as Republic Entertainment Inc) is an independent film television and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution Trucolor was a two-strip (red and green) process based on the earlier work of William Van Doren Kelley's Prizma color process. The Prizma Color system was a technique of color Motion picture photography invented in 1913 by William Van Doren Kelley.
Republic used Trucolor mostly for its westerns, through the 1940s and early 1950s. The premiere Trucolor release was Out California Way (1946 with the last film photographed in the process being Spoilers of the Forest (1957). With the advent of Eastmancolor and Ansco color films, which gave better results at a cheaper price, Trucolor was abandoned. Eastman Kodak Company ( is an American multinational Public company which produces imaging and photographic materials and equipment Ansco was the name of a photographic company based in Binghamton New York, which produced inexpensive Cameras for most of the 20th century
In addition to feature films, Republic commissioned Robert Clampett to make one cartoon, It's a Grand Old Nag. Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett ( May 8 1913 &mdash May 4 1984) was an American Animator, producer Leonard L. Levinson was commissioned to make 4 animated cartoon travelogues, Sloan Nibley wrote a real travelogue Carnival in Munich, and Lewis Cotlow filmed a feature length Zanzabuku in Africa. John Ford filmed a Korean War documentary in the process This is Korea (1951). The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25 1950 until the Republic made an epic version of the battle of the Alamo, The Last Command where the Mexican uniforms were made in sky blue to look better on the screen. The Battle of the Alamo was fought in February and March 1836 in San Antonio, Texas. The Last Command is a 1955 film about Jim Bowie and the fall of the Alamo. [1] Republic also made a South Seas adventure Fair Wind to Java (1953) that climaxed with the explosion of Krakatoa. Krakatoa ( Indonesian: Krakatau) also spelled Krakatao or Krakatowa, is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait Trucolor went on location to Europe as William Dieterle filmed the life of Richard Wagner in Magic Fire (1956) and Portugal featured in the potboiler Lisbon directed by and starring Ray Milland. William Dieterle ( July 15[[ 893]] – December 9[[ 972]] was a German Actor and Film director Magic Fire is a biographical film about the life of composer Richard Wagner, released in the United States on March 29, 1956 by Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Potboiler or pot-boiler is a term used to describe a poor quality novel play opera or film or other creative work that was created quickly to make Money to pay Ray Milland ( January 3, 1907 - March 10, 1986) was a Welsh Actor and director who worked primarily in the However, John Ford refused to film The Quiet Man in Trucolor despite Republic's head Herbert J. Yates insisting on the process. The Quiet Man is a American film starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, and Barry Fitzgerald, and directed Herbert John Yates (1880-1966 was the founder and president of Republic Pictures, famous for being the home of John Wayne, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers
Trucolor films were shot in bipack, with the two strips of film being sensitized to red and green. In Cinematography, bipacking, or a bipack, is the process of loading two reels of film into a camera so that they both pass through the camera gate together Both negatives were processed on duplitized film, much like Trucolor's rival process Cinecolor. Duplitized film stock was a type of film available through various companies used in color photography and special effects Cinecolor was an early Subtractive color -model two color Film process based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor Because of its chemical composition, however, Trucolor film fades over time, unlike Cinecolor.
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References
- ^ Thompson, Frank Alamo Movies Old Mill Books 1991
External links
Trucolor at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/keyword/trucolor/
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