hey,
curious as to the tinting of the film when jesus is rising from the grave. is this original or a new addition? i'm not knowledgeable at all when it comes to silents and very curious. thanks in advance for any information!
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shareI had the same question about the silent film "Beyond The Rocks" which uses an orange "daylight" tint, and a "midnight blue" tint....so Sheryl don't think your the only one who needs to ask these questions.....
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The Colour at the end is not "tinting" it's just faded early technicolor. Technicolor has been around since 1917.
Note: This is not a complete list of Two-strip Technicolor films. For those who care enough to want to see some of these films I have marked on which media I know they appear. Enjoy!
The Gulf Between (1917) (Lost)
The Toll of the Sea (1922) (Treasures from american film archives DVD)
The Ten Commandments (1923) (DVD)
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924) (Lost)
Ben Hur (1925) (Warner Bros. 4 Disc set)
The Black Pirate (1926) (Kino Video DVD)
The King Of Kings (1927) (Criterion Collection DVD)
The Viking (1928) (Must atleast be on VHS)
The Cavalier (1928)
The Desert Song (1929)
Rio Rita (1929)
Redskin (1929) (Treasures from afa 3 DVD)
Sally (1929)
The Show of Shows (1929)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Paris (1929)
On with the Show (1929)
Glorifying the American Girl (1929) (Free from www.Archive.org in bw public domain version)
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) (Some surviving clips included on The Jazz Singer 3 disc set DVD)
The Broadway Melody (1929) (Warner DVD, colour has been lost)
The Bride of the Regiment (1930)
Bright Lights (1930)
Follow Thru (1930)
General Crack (1930)
Golden Dawn (1930)
Hit the Deck (1930)
Hold Everything (1930)
No No Nanette (1930)
Mammy (1930)
Mamba (1930)
Madam Satan (1930)
The Life of the Party (1930)
Kismet (1930)
King of Jazz (1930) (VHS)
Whoopee! (1930)
Viennese Nights (1930)
The Vagabond King (1930)
Under a Texas Moon (1930)
Son of the Gods (1930)
Song of the Flame (1930)
Song of the West (1930)
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
The Rogue Song (1930)
The Runaround (1931)
Manhattan Parade (1931)
Kiss Me Again (1931)
Woman Hungry (1931)
Fanny Foley Herself (1931)
Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931)
Smilin' Through (1932)
Doctor X (1932) (Warner Bros. DVD)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) (DVD)
State Fair (1933)
Silent films often used tinting and toning. Tinting gave a color to the "white" parts of the image and "toning" gave a color to the "black" parts.
It was difficult to do these processes with sound film. It could not be done with with the audio track attached to the film.
This is two-strip technicolor -- you'll notice it has a less lifelike look than later three-strip technicolor. It was an expensive process and required ridiculous amounts of light (and therefore heat on the actors) and was not much used at the time, but there are numerous movies with color sequences. "Ben Hur" is one, and so is "Stage Struck" with Gloria Swanson. Douglas Fairbanks's "The Black Pirate" is entirely in two-strip technicolor.
Tinting and toning, however, was extremely common. Very often now when we see silent films, they are in prints whose tinting and toning have worn away, or in reconstruction prints nobody has gone to the trouble to tint and tone. There was "color" in silent films much more often than people realize -- it just wasn't a full spectrum.
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Watching on TCM and the opening scene with Mary Magdalene was in full color the rest was black and white (maybe some tint from time to time). Did anyone else notice this?
shareThis film used a two strip color process that was common in early technicolor films. The colors used were red and green. Yes, it was used in the original for only the beginning and near the end. The full color range we know today was not used in films until 1936.
sharePart of it was in "color" and part was all in black and white
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