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The color process company whose three-strip camera and dye-transfer printing, introduced in the early 1930s, gave Hollywood its saturated golden-age color, The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind among its showcases. Its consultants policed how color could be used on screen for two decades.
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Introduced YearThe three-strip process debuted in Disney's cartoon Flowers and Trees, 1932; earlier two-color Technicolor processes ran from 1917 to the 1920s. OriginTechnicolor's three-strip process, Process 4, debuted with Walt Disney's Silly Symphony short Flowers and Trees in 1932, after Technicolor executive Herbert Kalmus persuaded Disney to shoot it in the new process. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Wikimedia FoundationTechnicolor, Early adoption by Disney sectionQuote, Technicolor, Early adoption by Disney section
Kalmus convinced Walt Disney to shoot one of his Silly Symphony cartoons, Flowers and Trees (1932), in Process 4, the new three-strip process.
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