Technicolor News & Views (April 1955)

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Current Zeekniques of 35mm Color Motion Picture Printing DYE TRANSFER PRINT FROM COLOR NEGATIVE Here a scene is recorded on color negative from which matrices are printed and subsequently dyed. Where cyan dye is present, red light will be subtracted from the scene. No cyan dye is present in the area of the red walls of the barn. Magenta dye will subtract green light — no magenta is present in the green grass area. Yellow will subtract blue light; note its absence in the blue sky portion of the picture. DYE TRANSFER PRINT FROM 16MM KODACHROME FILM When the scene is initially recorded on 16mm Kodachrome film, enlarged 35mm silver separation nega- tives are optically printed and developed. Matrices and sound tracks are utilized as explained opposite. Release prints for “The Living Desert" and “The Vanishing Prairie," among others, were made in this way. light in 1 in mage and bla The t now ha: cellent r is ready jection.' light is white li tracted ' where r dyes res and pre quantitii black or Wet n a consis ing gurr ferred ir toleranci Only ‘ the alter color po method, a cost a of prints lease. A matrices constant COLOR F Color SILVER SEPARATION NEGATIVES DYE TRANSFER PRINT FROM SEPARATION NEGATIVES The same ideal scene (as above) is photographed on silver separation negatives. Three negatives are exposed simultaneously in a special three-strip camera. Silver (black and white) negatives are developed. Matrices made from these negatives are similar to those shown above and perform the same function. Dyes are transferred to the gelatin blank after optical sound track and silver frame lines have been printed onto and developed in the blank. DYE TRANSFER PRINT FROM SUCCESSIVE FRAME NEGATIVE For cartoon color release prints 35mm suc- cessive frame silver negative is used. Alternate use of blue, green and red filters permits ex- posure of succeeding frames to each color as- pect of t t he scene. From each third frame of the negative, one matrix is printed which has all the color information of one aspect of the scene, e.g., green. Sound tracks and pictures for release prints are made as described opposite. COLOR POSITIVE PRINT FROM COLOR NEGATIVE Color negative is also used to contact print color positive film. Optical sound tracks are printed from a second negative (not shown) after picture printing but be- fore picture development. — FOUR — — FIVE —