The Technicolor Collections at George Eastman House

The Technicolor Corporate Archive was gifted to George Eastman House in 2009. The archive’s notebooks, dye bottles, research files, cameras, and printing equipment supplemented the museum’s existing holdings of vintage Technicolor cameras and Technicolor film negatives, including the color separation negatives for Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz.
George Eastman House holds unparalleled collections of photographs, motion pictures, cameras and technology, and photographically illustrated books, totaling more than four million objects. A world leader in film preservation and photograph conservation, Eastman House educates national and international archivists and conservators through its academic and archival training programs. The museum’s film preservation strategies focus on the forgotten works of early cinema and on orphan films that would otherwise be lost through chemical decomposition. Established as an independent nonprofit institution in 1947, it is the third largest film archive in the United States and the world’s oldest photography museum. The museum is located in Rochester, New York, on the site of the National Historic Landmark house and gardens of George Eastman, philanthropist and father of popular photography and motion picture film.

[@naedolor]

This stuff is pure gold. More please.

[@fbdsyt]

02:13 "My job is to make sure these images last longer than my lifetime". Please, receive from the deepest of my heart, all my admiration for your job!

[@misterhot9163]

So what about the "great MGM vault fire of 1967" where many pre-1930 prints of technicolor films had perished? Does George Eastman House have copies of those lost color films?

[@anthonymunn8633]

I've wondered that.The 3-strip negatives for Singin' in the Rain allegedly went up in that fire.

[@Camop-iz9kt]

She mentions "Gone With The Wind" at 1:43. GWTW was NOT produced by MGM, but was produced entirely at Selznick International. MGM helped pay for it and got the distribution rights, but Selznick made the film. This is a common mistake by many people, since MGM later owned GWTW outright. Several of the early 3-strip Technicolor movies were made by Selznick and still look great to this day.

[@robsemail]

@@mygmailaccount7067 Where did you hear that? Some films were lost forever in that fire, but they were mostly silent films. SITR was not among them.
Only one of several vaults burned in that fire. It was indeed tragic, but no major Technicolor films were lost. MGM was always the studio most concerned with preserving its own film legacy, and if I recall correctly they are the only studio with more than half their pre-1930 catalog still extant (including films made by the parent companies of MGM). Although a lot of films burned in that fire, only a small handful were lost forever.

[@rainlori]

@2:27 A reel from Selznick masterpiece "A Star Is Born" (1937) which has been magnificently restored and is on bluray.

[@ddkoda]

You are to be applauded for a worthy endeavor.

[@brunochambre]

I was under the impression that the camera negative of Singing in the Rain was destroyed in an MGM vault fire ?

[@chreynest]

one can't help but wonder if GEH also has any technicolor printing matrixes. Where are they? IMWTK

[@toyguy1956]

There will always be a problem what to transfer too film has been around for 100 years 100 years from now will there be some 2021 machines that you can use in 2121 to be able to view them

[@lunatim]

agreed

[@anumishmaelofoli8182]

we need that sofetware to learn and grade too.. give it to us

[@MileyonDisney]

OMG! That chick's vocal fry is unbearable! And those missives! She sounds like the Tootsie Pop owl.

[@Tmanaz480]

LOL..."missives"? Perhaps you mean plosives?