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The Road Ahead
of the faces and eyes being predominant. Another difficulty in the way of the photography of nature's colors is that everyone knows exactly what these colors are and should be, and unconsciously makes comparisons of this kind.
This puts color photography to a tremendously difficult test, which it meets only to a comparative degree. It is the same kind of test to which recorded sound is put: does it sound like a real person? Colored cartoons have achieved their great and relatively easy success because they do not need to portray nature's colors, but these comparisons between nature and color cartoons cannot be wisely made.
A remark of this kind should by no means be considered disparaging to color; some day all pictures will be made in color. It has scored an amazing advance in fifteen years, and particularly in the last two or three.
In 1922 and 1923 the author was associated with the production of The Ten Commandments. A two-color process was used in this picture and others, as The Vikings and the Black Pirate. The blues were extremely blue and the reds were very red. It provided the novelty of color, but it was far from being true to nature.
But since that time there has been such progress as to make it evident that color photography will continue to approach full fidelity by improvement. By the time this goal has been reached, picture production will have increased its percentage of colored pictures in like proportion.
The number of color films, while still small compared to the total number made in black and white,
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