The art of sound pictures (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The art of sound pictures
Date:
1930
Publisher:
New York : D. Appleton and Company
Volume:
The art of sound pictures
Leaf #:
000275
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

CHAPTER XI COLOR No account of modern motion pictures would be complete without a chapter on color. Color in pictures apparently has come to stay. There are many reasons for this, chief of which is the necessity for color in “girl shows,” revues, and musical entertainments which are now taking their place in motion pictures as a result of sound recording and reproduction. Motion picture color photography has been known since 1902, but did not become popular until July, 1929, when the Warner Brothers released On With the Show, a revue with sound and all-color photography. The picture made a tremendous impression, both upon the movie going public and upon the motion picture producers, for its extraordinary color effects. At about the same time, some short two-reel musical reviews in color, and The Hollywood Revue, containing several delightful color sequences, were released. And now the motion picture industry stands committed to color as a basic feature of its production program for the year 1929-1930, with a promise of increasing amounts of color in all pictures to follow in the future. There are two possible types of color processes in motion picture photography. These two are technically termed “additive” and “subtractive” processes. Although only subtractive processes are commercially in use at this 241