The Stunning Evolution of Color in Film | WIRED
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Before they figured out how to shoot film in color, filmmakers were painting their footage, frame-by-frame. Fast forward a century and the HDR technology available to colorists means we are to see more detail than ever on our screens. From technicolor to color grading, color in the movies has had a fascinating 116 year history.
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The Stunning Evolution of Color in Film | WIRED
2:00 So people should know that despite the fact it looks like the movie goes from sepia to color, they actually shot the whole shot in color. They painted the interior of the house and use a double for Dorothy with a sepia colored costume. You can actually see the trick: Dorothy's double, after opening the door, gets out of the frame for letting Judy Garland's Dorothy getting into it.
wow! never knew that...thanks!...
I never knew that either! Very cool and thank you for the info!
All the scenes from the beginning were shot in white and black and colored in sepia. But to make the transition, it was impossible to have the shot going from sepia to color on film. So they used that trick, and yet people are still being duped to this day!
thank you. I was wondering how they shot that. If they painted the shot or something.
dude thats crazy. thx for sharing
Worth mentioning: the earliest surviving color footage - which begins this film - was never seen until recently. The inventor shot it with a camera which placed a different colored filter in front of every third frame. He managed to get images on film, but never came up with a way to project the film with three different filters on the projector.
A few years ago, his film was scanned and digitally "projected" following his instructions. It worked - but it took a over a century to get it to.
What's the clip called? It sounds interesting
I thought when I was young the world was black and white in the 1900s lol 🤦♂️😂
me too! lol
I thought this was just me 😂
Same 😂
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Mee to
That wizard of oz scene was amazing to look at
Colors are DOPE.
Gabriel Dalposso color fetish
Not gonna name that Japanese movie at 2:32? Ok...
we have a Dolby theater in Arlington Texas! and the colors are absolutely amazing
guys remember that time we tried doing 360 videos on youtube?? ohhh man... wtf were we thinking?!?!! ... those were the days....
That was pretty groovy; I always wondered why movies looked so different as a kid, the just suddenly completely changed in viewing quality
So much in this video that I didn't fully know about before.
This video also makes me wonder about how long the list of jobs for any given movie must be. Crazy long is my thought.
I'm certainly happy to live during this time in the evolution of film; not that I'd have known too much about what I was missing had I been born much earlier in the 20th century, of course. :-)
TheMovieMyLife its called the credits
Yeah colour is pretty interesting and complex especially if you want it to be colour perfect. If you noticed at 3:50 he has 2 screens, a monitor and a cinema projector. the reason why he has 2 screens is that the colours he gets in the monitor screen is noticeably different to the project. It's the same with graphic design and printing. for ordinary printers and monitor screens they all have varying colour ranges and output different colours. Hence why sometimes pictures may look better on certain screens then on other or in print.
Why didn't they mention teal and orange trend in color grading? Essentially all recent blockbusters are graded like that.
Something good came out the Mario Bros. movie? Shocking.
I'm sure I noticed improved film around the early 2000s. I remember watching Black Hawk Down and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) thinking that the blacks look really black, not a sort of grey black like I had seen in previous movies!
Great mini documentary
2:37, so there was a little bit of competition
The wizard of oz color transition was in color too, just earth tones, the setting and costume was made in earth tones.
This is why old movie are better than modern movie,no shaky cam and no over-graded like orange and teal look,cyan-ish look,yellow-ish warm look,green look like matrix,or a low contrast and underexposure,old movie looks colorful
i love oldermovies because they always tried to light up the scene as bright as possible, so you can see every detail of each set they spent money on
this video was very informative
what was that japanese movie at 2:37? looks damn amazing
well how about converting black and white movies to color movies? that I really wanna see.
Most likely hand painting.
Hours of work, frame by frame.
Turn up the sound!!
The video is wonderfull. Could you put subtitles in spanish? I want to share it with students. The youtube option for language- translation subtitles is not working. Thanks.
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I realized its not a cinefix video after I watched it.
I love such history
what's the name of the samurai movie being shown at 2:32 ?
solid vid. nice work
Chris Angel is doing Wired Narrations now. I'm not complaining, just saying.
WHat software is he using
What’s the name of the Asian movie at 2:30?
now its on our phone
When your laptop only has a TN panel.
The wizard of oz is one of my favorite colored film because it look too good for it's time.
Any thoughts about Dr Strange?
BangladeshiBoy 101 should have watched it in IMAX
This is what I wanted tú study sense I was a kid 😓
Digital does not look as good as older colour film.
This makes me happy
4:01 what program he uses?
Possibly Autodesk's Lustre, looks very similar anyway
Thanks !
@WIRED i always thought film had more dynamic range (because of developing process) and it's just now that we can film digitally in HD to be close to IMAX roll quality?
What program was Steve Scott using for his color grading? Anyone have an idea?
Probably Technicolor's own propriatary system.
Anyone immediately think of Spinal Tap when they mentioned Dolbe?
“We can use doubley”
“She means Dolby...”
Same footage i had on the nokia first camera phone
This. Is. So. Cool.
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Vox lite
The start colors are black and white
Blatant advertisement for Dolby
The advertisements create themselves when you create something worth talking about
The late Ray Dolby contributed to the audio on the first practical Video recorders. He worked for Ampex.
He was a very smart man and quite worthy of talking about. You just don't know.
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Cool.
Japanese movie at 2:32?
i believe it's "jigokumon"
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what's the name of the actress at 1:34
Olivia de Havilland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland
The resoulution of wizard of oz woah
Nothing about González Camarena? Really?
You can only have perfect black if the source also contains perfect black, an old recording will never have perfect black.
the music is too loud. bad mix. do it again.
00:16 dont take things for GRANITE
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I know this has nothing to do with the content of the video, but I cringe every time I hear someone say "Super Mario Bros" instead of "Super Mario Brothers." It's written "Bros." as an abbreviation for "Brothers." It's not like they're some frat bros or something.
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everyone still call them bros since its easier
try twitter
I hate it when people say MAREO, it’s pronounced MARIO!
I'm a simple guy. I see Sherlock/Benedict Cumberbatch I click and watch😂
So this is an advert then?
Matrix
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Who's here before 1k views
Go away, yo.
dolby ad
It was not the first movie in color.
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Everything has evolved in the wrong direction, the colors are uglier and duller than the magnificent Technicolor of the 30s and the images are blurry. That's the progress.
HDR is older than motion picture itself. Quit sitting yourself, no one's buying it.
i miss the look of movies like the 1995 mortal kombat the Richard donnar superman hard target with the foggy blue lighting im sick of the dull washed out look that modern movies have
Yeah, I wouldn't be too impressed with the Marvel films he made, since every MCU films looks exactly the same as the rest.
Not at all. For example Guardians looks totally different to The FIrst Avenger in terms of color.
Batman Jr.
marvel is trying to make consistency and honestly the new guardians movie fixed that
Batman Jr. Yeah yeah we've all seen the video on why marvel movies look so bland.
Im Betmen - yeah, I agree. Although it would be nice to have something new in those movies, it could also be really strange to have a big shift from style.
or you could just... put saturation up a bit.. and tweak with the options however you want it to look
Why is the intro like we are in 1800s
Wasnt the tv invented in 1927 though?
JESSE PINKMAN
and tvs are the only way to watch things? how are you on youtube? wasn't smartphones invented in 2007?
Daniel Rieger So how did they watch it before?
Fisto Fire projectors maybe?
Here come the conspiracy theorists with their whole "color's not real, man" outlooks.
How did people know what color should look like when color wasn't invented yet?
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Jesse Pinkman wee !
Movies were boring atleast only my grandma know it
"Ingenious hacking". Pure millennial speak for invention.
First dislike! Awesome vid by the way
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hey wired I'm a bit disappointed in you guys, it makes me think how much of your other stuff you might have made up or not properly researched. now the first roll of footage was made in Australia at the Melbourne cup, the first color movie was actually "Ned Kelly" about a group of Australian gangsters. I'm am proud to be Australian and I think you should give credit were it is due if you would like to contest me or think that I'm wrong please address my complaint
vincent meyrick Neither of those things are true. You might want to check your own facts, bud.
Color was terrible until around 1970, with the development of proper pigments. Before that, all the processes looked awful, and after that, the movies look naturalistic.
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