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Technical Question

posted 11 years ago by justdavina
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I was so surprised when I just found out, that this movie was released in 1937. Please help me out here. I thought there was no colour film until much later. Was it shown in colour at the movies and on TV?

[–] OllieBean 11 years ago

Yes, this is the first full length animated feature and the first motion picture to be released in color. As far as live action features, I always thought that Gone With The Wind and Wizard of Oz in 1939 were the first to come out in color but I just found out that The Adventures of Robin Hood in 1938 with Errol Flynn was released in color. I don't know what live action movie did it first.

[–] leighant 10 years ago

Disney had animated shorts in color several years before "Snow White", starting I believe with "Flowers and Trees."

[–] MaleficentDisney 8 years ago

You are indeed right. Beginning with "Flowers and Trees" Walt Disney had exclusive rights to the three-strip Technicolor process, so Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was designed in mind to be color film, each animation cell being painted on the backs with hand-mixed pigmented paints.

[–] liscarkat (16552) 5 years ago

There were Technicolor sequences in live-action movies and cartoons in the 1920s. The first full-length movie in three-strip Technicolor (the process used in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and "Gone with the Wind") was "Becky Sharp" in 1935.