Other similarly colored movies

As a matter of fact, Huston's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967), also photographed by Oswald Morris, used the same principals of color layer desaturation. In Moby Dick it was done to impart a more period sort of look to the image, and the process was expanded upon to give "Reflections" a psychologically disturbing look. In fact, the process was only made possible because of the use of the dye-transfer process of Technicolor printing. Even thought the films were photographed using color negative film, individual R-G-B black and white separations were used to create printing matrices that re-create the color image using the dye-transfer printing process. By manipulating the exposure and contrast curves of the B&W separations, it was possible to create a de-saturated color effect that is not possible in standard negative-positive photo-chemical printing. Now of course, everything is digital, and the same effect can be created in any filmmakers desktop computer. In the pre-digital period, it was pretty special.