Moving color [[electronic resource] ] : early film, mass culture, modernism / / Joshua Yumibe

• Autore: Yumibe Joshua <1974->
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Disciplina: 777
• Soggetto topico: Color cinematography - History; Colorization of motion pictures - History; Silent films - History and criticism; Colors in motion pictures
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / by Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Introduction -- The colors of modernity -- Hand coloring and the intermediality of the cinema -- Transformation and uplift: stenciling, tinting, and toning -- Color cinema, from gentility to abstraction -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Color was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz. Thomas Edison, for example, projected two-colored films at his first public screening in New York City on April 23, 1896. These first colors of early cinema were not photographic; they were applied manually through a variety of laborious processes-most commonly by the hand-coloring and stenciling of prints frame by frame, and the tinting and toning of films in vats of chemical dyes. The results were remarkably beautiful.; Moving Color is the first book-length study of the beginnings of color cinema. Looking backward, Joshua Yumibe traces
• Titolo autorizzato: Moving color
• ISBN: 1-280-49227-9; 9786613587503
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451847603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Techniques of the moving image.