# Whatever happened to glorious Technicolor? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783 "2008-09-30T00:53:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/21 "2008-09-30T20:03:09Z")
Ok, so now we need to figure out what happened to breathtaking cinemascope, and stereophonic sound. Those are just stepping stones because our real goal is to find the scarlet lips and five foot bosoms. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/22 "2008-09-30T20:05:38Z")
Sorry, wrong link above. Here’s the correct one: • Color in 1906: [_Tartans of the Scottish Clans_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbWtviN4BG0). ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/23 "2008-09-30T20:24:18Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > • Color in 1906: [_Tartans of the Scottish Clans_](http://www.autochrome.com/Autochrome-centennial/Greeting.html). > • Color in 1907: [Lumière Autochromes](http://www.autochrome.com/Autochrome-centennial/Greeting.html). > • Color in 1907-1915: [The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated](http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/). > • Color in 1914-1918: [World War I Color Photos](http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/). > • Color in 1929: [_Glorifying the American Girl_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R7gEgDVm50). > • Color in 1930: Eddie Cantor in [_Whoopee!_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRPmTZRqkg) > • Color in 1932: Disney’s [_Flowers and Trees_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOadTflvdBg). > • Color in 1933: [_Mystery of the Wax Museum_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FioVG6OdO_8). > • Color in 1934: Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman in [Kid Millions](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN7gxGJwZ1A). _Must_ you rub in my past ignorance? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/24 "2008-09-30T21:51:09Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > _Must_ you rub in my past ignorance? > > 🙂 Well, yeah, actually. Please look in the upper left corner of this page. Right below the three big words? Yeah, that is the one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/25 "2008-09-30T23:27:34Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > I wonder why the fashion moved to duller, drabber colors. Another contribution to your problem is that theater owners will turn down to the lamp to save money at the cost of a brighter screen. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/26 "2008-10-01T00:55:57Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > The funny thing is that a lot of that equipment ended up in China, where they turned out some amazing films with it. I believe Zhang Yimou shot several of his films in Technicolor – I know that _[Ju Dou](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099902/)_ was Technicolor. As most of the story takes place at a dye mill, there are plenty of colorful scenes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/27 "2008-10-01T02:36:28Z")
> [@Will\_Repair](#): > > Another contribution to your problem is that theater owners will turn down to the lamp to save money at the cost of a brighter screen. Biggest issue is running the lamp way past it’s rated hours—the envelope darkens with deposited tungstan, or if the lamp is horiziontal, not rotating the bulb enough and the top turns dark. We won’t even discuss how much more likely a overage bulb is to detonate with out warning… ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/28 "2008-10-01T04:23:24Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Film stock has come a long way. > > In 1984 I showed a 70mm print of 2001. No Cyan. Little Yellow. Magenta baby! > > Yet the IBTech trailers that I fished out of the dumpster of NSS in Boston are still as colorfull as the day they were struck, grey soundtrack and all. That was one point that the “Robin Hood” documentary made, that a lot of the movies made with later colour techniques have deteriorated badly, while the Technicolour prints have lasted. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783/29 "2008-10-01T12:57:27Z")
Walloon, I watched some of those clips last night. Thank you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-glorious-technicolor/465783.md?page=1)