ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 0.1 Color chart by Natalie Kalmus (1932).
Figure 0.2 Film stars illustrating Kalmus’s color chart (1932).
Figure 1.1 Color sphere from
Atlas of the Munsell Color System
(1915).
Figure 1.2
A Color Notation
(1919).
Figure 1.3 The German submarine
Deutschland
being unloaded of aniline cargo (1916).
Figure 1.4 The Kodak Research Laboratories (1921).
Figure 1.5 Kenneth Mees’s outline of the areas of photographic inquiry (1917).
Figure 1.6 Kodak’s
Abridged Scientific Publications
, beginning in 1913.
Figure 1.7 Kodak’s
Monthly Abstract Bulletins
, beginning in 1916.
Figure 1.8 Loyd Jones and Lewis Townsend’s experiments with projecting color music (1925).
Figure 1.9 Eastman-Kodak emulsions (1908).
Figure 1.10 Tinting formulas by Kodak (1924).
Figure 1.11 Sketches for a rapid tinting machine (1923).
Figure 1.12 Overview of Technicolor’s lab and staff (1924).
Figure 1.13 Leonard Troland’s Technicolor notebook covering patent research.
Figure 1.14 Section 8 on “Coloring” patents from Troland’s Technicolor Notebooks.
Figure 1.15
Screenland
feature on
Taming of the Shrew
(1929).
Figure 2.1 The Octopus Gown (
Photoplay Magazine
1921).
Figure 3.1 The ciné-dance-hall of the Café Aubette in Strasbourg (1928).
Figure 3.2 Warners’ Theatre on Broadway advertising
Don Juan
(ca. 1926).
Figure 3.3 Exterior of the Atrium Theatre in Berlin (1929).
Figure 3.4 Loïe Fuller skirt dances (1896).
Figure 3.5 Thomas Wilfred performing his Clavilux color organ (1924).
Figure 3.6 Thomas Wilfred installation of the Clavilux color organ in in the Bal Tabarin Room, Chicago (1930).
Figure 3.7 Mary Hallock Greenewalt demonstrating the Sarabet color organ.
Figure 3.8 Zdenĕk Pešánek’s “Spectrophone” (ca. 1926).
Figure 3.9 Holophane lighting in cinemas (1929).
Figure 3.10 Holophane lighting at the Ritz Cinema, Birmingham (1929).
Figure 4.1 Bruno Taut’s
Glashaus
at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition (1914).
Figure 4.2 The mural workshop at the Bauhaus, Dessau (1926).
Figure 4.3 Walter Gropius’s diagram of the curriculum at the Bauhaus (1923).
Figure 4.4 Johannes Itten in front of his
Color Sphere
(1921).
Figure 4.5 The score for Ludwig Hirschfield-Mack’s version of
Farben Licht-Spiele
.
Figure 4.6 Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s
Reflektorische Farblichtspiele
.
Figure 4.7 The program of Der Absolute Film screening, UFA Palast, Berlin (1925).
Figure 4.8 Lotte Reiniger’s sponsored film
Die Barcarole
(1924).
Figure 4.9
Nosferatu
(1922).
Figure 4.10 Walter Ruttmann’s “Dream of the Hawks” in
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
(1924).
Figure 4.11
Opus 1
(1921).
Figure 4.12 Further matching motifs
Der Sieger: Ein Film in Farben
(1922).
Figure 4.13 Dada periodical
391
, no. 7 (Francis Picabia, 1917).
Figure 4.14 Marcel L’Herbier’s exhibit at the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris (1925).
Figure 4.15 Original frame slugs with color information for
L’Inhumaine
(1924).
Figure 4.16
Cottage on Dartmoor
(1929).
Figure 5.1 A composite tryptic image in
Napoléon
(1927).
Figure 6.1 The Technicolor Camera Department (1930).
Figure 6.2 The Multicolor attachment on a Mitchell camera (1930).
Figure 6.3 James Wong Howe and Max DuPont (1929).
Figure 6.4 Max Du Pont and Mary Mabery (1929).
Figure 6.5 Advertisement for Vitaphone’s Technicolor Musical Review (1930).
Figure 6.6
Redskin
(1929).
Figure 6.7 Advertisement by Gustav Brock (1935).
Figure 6.8 Advertisement by Gustav Brock for his work on
The Vampire Bat
(1933).
Figure 6.9 The Pathéchrome dye-applicator device (1931).
Figure 6.10 Kodak Sonochrome advertisement (1930).
Figure 6.11
Dracula
(Tod Browning).
Figure 6.12 Frame slug from
Dracula
(1931).
Color Plates
Color Plate 0.1
Napoléon
(1927).
Color Plate 1.1 Color guidebook (1910).
Color Plate 1.2 Eastman Kodak’s tinting guidebook (1927).
Color Plate 1.3 Pathé Frères’ tinting guidebook (ca. 1925).
Color Plate 2.1
Le home moderne
(1929).
Color Plate 2.2 Office design by Etienne Kohlmann (1930).
Color Plate 2.3 Lupe Vélez’s bedroom colors (1929).
Color Plate 2.4 The hand-colored title of
Changing Hues
(1922).
Color Plate 2.5 Stenciling in
Changing Hues
(1922).
Color Plate 2.6 The final hand-colored and stenciled shots in
Changing Hues
(1922).
Color Plate 2.7 Raquel Torres in Technicolor’s
Fashion News
.
Color Plate 2.8
Der karierte Regenmantel
(
The Checkered Raincoat
, 1917).
Color Plate 2.9 A Handschiegled pink cigarette in
The Affairs of Anatol
(1921).
Color Plate 2.10 An Art Deco–styled room tinted rose in
Gribiche
(1926).
Color Plate 2.11 Lotus Flower in green framed against the red flowers of her garden, in
The Toll of the Sea
(Chester M. Franklin, U.S. 1922).
Color Plate 2.12 Lotus Flower and Little Allen, now washed clean of his Eastern colors, in
The Toll of the Sea
(Chester M. Franklin, U.S., 1922).
Color Plate 2.13 Eve’s dress in the fashion show of
Fig Leaves
(Howard Hawks, U.S., 1926). Courtesy of Karl Thiede.
Color Plate 3.1 The ciné-dance-hall of the Café Aubette in Strasbourg (1928; restored 2006).
Color Plate 3.2 [
Kaleidoscope
] (1925).
Color Plate 3.3 Thomas Wilfred’s
Clavilux Junior
(1930).
Color Plate 3.4 Thomas Wilfred’s sketch for mounting the Clavilux on top of skyscrapers (1929).
Color Plate 3.5 Mary Hallock Greenewalt’s “first mapping” of a color score (ca. 1906).
Color Plate 3.6
Opus 1
(1921).
Color Plate 3.7
Raumlichtkunst
(1926/2012), reconstruction by Center for Visual Music.
Color Plate 3.8 The Theater Tuschinski in Amsterdam (1921).
Color Plate 4.1 Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema, “Kinogestaltung” (1924–1925).
Color Plate 4.2
Reflektorische Farblichtspiele
(
Reflecting Colour-Light-Play
, 1922; 2016).
Color Plate 4.3
Opus III
(1924).
Color Plate 4.4 Carl Otto Czeschka’s illustrations of
Die Nibelungen
(1909).
Color Plate 4.5
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
(1924).
Color Plate 4.6 Tinted and toned colors, and positive cutting in
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(1920).
Color Plate 4.7 Hand tinting in
Ballet mécanique
(1924).
Color Plate 4.8
L’inhumaine
(1923).
Color Plate 4.9 Handschiegl in
Salomé
(1923).
Color Plate 4.10 The execution of Jokaanan in
Salomé
(1923).
Color Plate 4.11 Tinting and toning in
Danse Macabre
(1922).
Color Plate 5.1 Amber tinting in
Smouldering Fires
(1925).
Color Plate 5.2 Violet tinting in
Smouldering Fires
(1925).
Color Plate 5.3 Tinting and Handschiegl effects in
The Fire Brigade
(1926).
Color Plate 5.4 Tinting and Handschiegl in
Wings
(1927).
Color Plate 5.5 Technicolor in
The Phantom of the Opera
(1925).
Color Plate 5.6 Handschiegl in
The Phantom of the Opera
(1925).
Color Plate 5.7
The Glorious Adventure
(1922).
Color Plate 5.8
Das Weib des Pharao
(
The Loves of Pharaoh
, 1921).
Color Plate 5.9
The Lodger
(1926).
Color Plate 5.10 Stenciling in
Cirano di Bergerac
(1923/1925).
Color Plate 5.11 Stenciling in
Michel Strogoff
(1926).
Color Plate 5.12 Stenciling in
Casanova
(1927).
Color Plate 5.13 Blue toning and pink tinting in
Napoléon
(1927).
Color Plate 5.14 Blue toning in
Napoléon
(1927).
Color Plate 5.15 Amber tinting in
Napoléon
(1927).
Color Plate 5.16
Lonesome
(1928).
Color Plate 5.17 Fringing in
The Open Road
(1925).
Color Plate 5.18
Cosmopolitan London
(1924).
Color Plate 6.1
Redskin
(1929).
Color Plate 6.2
King of Jazz
(1930).
Color Plate 6.3
King of Jazz
(1930).
Color Plate 6.4 The film bursting into flames in
The Death Kiss
(1932).
Color Plate 6.5 A stencil-sound film from the Kodak Film Samples Collection.