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absolute art, 125–128
Absolute Film, 18, 125–128, 139, 162–170, 178–180; Der Absolute Film screening, 165–169, 165; color in, 168, 203; French film and, 183–185; Rudolf Kurtz and, 158, 178; useful abstraction and, 151–152
Absolute Music, 126
abstract color, 127, 149, 162–163, 188–189, 194, 297n86; in Ballet mécanique, 188–189; music, 14
abstraction, 150–151, 168–169, 180; Ballet mécanique, 185–186, 194; Einfühlung and, 150, 302n31; L’inhumaine, 194; useful, 151–169, 189; new paints and, 25; Thomas Wilfred and, 120
additive color systems, 4, 38, 57, 85, 231, 249
Adrian, Gilbert, 83; Fig Leaves, 98
advertising, 7–8, 27, 65, 66–103, 130–131, 149, 189; chromatic experimentation in, 274; clothing, 84; color-conscious, 74; consumer culture, 66, 186; electrical advertising signs, 130; film tie-ins, 100; interwar period, 189; media, 67; lighting and, 17, 22, 108, 109, 111, 130, 134, 219; posters and, 22; Sonochrome, 263; sponsored films, 179, 226, 273; theory, 106, 126, 130–131, 143, 163, 168; trends, 74–80; window displays, 187, 272
aesthetics: Arts and Crafts and, 199; Bauhaus and, 154–158; Pierre Bourdieu and, 105; color and, 5, 23, 148, 236, 264, 303n46; Einfühlung and, 150–152, 156, 197; film preservation and, 3; knowledge transfer and, 36, 47, 57, 148; Fernand Léger and, 189–190; Marcel L’Herbier and, 192, 194; sensory perception and, 161, 164, 262; theories of, 5, 118, 168–169, 276; of realism, 4, 274; of technology, 154, 158, 205, 226, 228; ornamentation and, 15, 26; total-art, 70; Vienna Secession and, 175–178
Affairs of Anatol, The (1921), 18, 89–93, 97, 210, 291n110; coloring methods, 92–93; octopus gown, 90, 91
Agfa, 49, 274
Alice blue, 101, 222
ambient mood lighting, 18, 69, 106, 129, 137, 143
Americanism, 228
American twentieth century, 6, 23
American Venus, The (1926), 98–99
Anderson, John Murray, 144, 245, 247
Anémic cinéma (1926), 186, 187
aniline, 21–26, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 58, 63; color cinema, 33; synthesis of, 24
Anschütz, Georg, 128, 297n82
Apolinère Enameled (Duchamp), 187–188
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 187, 188, 304n58
applied color techniques, 3–4, 19, 33, 144, 206, 222, 226; color cinema and, 4; photographic color compared with, 229–230, 251; repurposing of, 251; sound and, 144, 206, 219, 251–269. See also film tinting and toning; hand coloring; Handschiegl coloring process; stenciling
Arnheim, Rudolf, 307n117; Film as Art, 15
Artaud, Antonin, 6, 7
art cinema, 5, 18, 186, 197, 199, 201
Art Deco, 23, 34, 190, 199; Albatros and, 93–94; Cecil B. DeMille and, 89; The Death Kiss, 255; L’Elegance, 85; Elstree Calling, 261; in France, 190; Gribiche, 94; Le home moderne, 68–69; L’Inhumaine, 18, 190, 194; King of Jazz, 245; Redskin, 243; theater design and, 13–14, 141. See also, International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris.
art education. See education and Bauhaus
Art Nouveau, 92, 188, 198, 272
Ascent, The. See Aufsteig, Der
Askari, Kaveh, 5, 199, 309n154, 318n4
Asquith, Anthony, 195–197, 196
Atrium Theatre, 110, 110
Aufsteig, Der (The Ascent, 1926), 127
avant-garde art, 6, 9, 105, 147–203, 270, 274; absolute art and, 114, 125–128; Pierre Bourdieu and, 16, 105; European, 14, 125–128; 1920s, color in, 147
avant-garde film, 8, 16, 18, 106, 262, 273; Absolute Art and, 125–128, 150–151, 164–171; narrative, 171, 183–195
Badische Anilin-und Sodafabrik (BASF), 24
Baer, H., 14–15, 26
Ball, Joseph A., 50, 55, 145, 225
Ballet mécanique (1924), 127, 165–167, 183–187, 184, 199, 201–202, 273; abstract color in, 188–189; criticism, 202; hand coloring, 206, 306n114; L’inhumaine and, 193–194, 202
Bal Tabarin Room, 119, 120
Barcarole, Die (1924), 167
BASF. See Badische Anilin-und Sodafabrik
Bataille, Georges, 7
Batchelor, David, 204
Bauhaus, 13, 18, 25, 127, 140, 151–169, 175, 189, 199; aesthetics of technology, 154, 158; art and technology, 158; curriculum, 154–156, 155; film and, 152–153, 158; Kinogestaltung cinema design, 153–154, 202; Moholy-Nagy and, 154, 158–165, 169, 303n50; mural workshop, 152; Ostwald and, 153–154, 160
Bayer, Herbert, 152–153; on Reklame-Architektur, 301n16
Bayer AG, 49
Belles of the Bath, 81–82
Belton, John, 227
Benjamin, Walter, 149, 161, 303n45; One Way Street, 7
Bernardi, Anton, 249
Berthon, Rodolphe, 52–53, 85, 249–250
black-and-white film, 15, 19; French, 185–186; psychological realism of, 206
Black Narcissus (1947), 275, 291n125
Black Pirate, The (1926), 58, 61, 145, 186; Technicolor, 222, 239, 241
Blakeston, Oswell, 197
Blaszczyk, Regina, 8, 73, 275
blue, 15, 58, 150; Alice blue, 101, 222; light, 15; Rhapsody blue, 102–103; tinting, 172, 175
Borg, Carl Oscar, 241
Bourdieu, Pierre, 9–11, 16, 67, 99, 105, 151, 226, 273; color music experiments, 114–115; cultural production theory, 23, 105; literary innovation theory, 233
Bradley, Milton, 25
Bragdon, Claude, 123–124, 138–139, 150, 288n47; St. Mark’s Church lighting, 138
British International Pictures, 261–262
Brock, Gustav, 206–207, 209, 222, 251–254, 252; on color in film, 253; hand-colored films, 253–256, 254, 306n114
Brooks, Louise, 98–99
Browning, Tod, 19, 267
Brownlow, Kevin, 2, 211, 217
Brunius, Bernard, 185–186, 275
Buñuel, Luis, 7
Burbank, Emily, 70
Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Das (1920), 18, 172, 180–183, 273; critics, 183, 185, 202; film tinting, 181–182; posters, 181–182
Café Aubette, 106–108, 107
Cahiers des Ingénieurs Pathé Frères (Pathé), 48–53, 284n65
Canudo, Ricciotto, 192
Carewe, Edwin, 207
Casanova (1927), 216–217, 260
Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC), 192–193
Chanel, 82
Chaney, Lon, 212, 271
Changing Hues (1922), 84–85
Checkered Raincoat, The. See karierte Regenmantel, Der
chemical industry, 5–6, 21–24, 31–32, 35, 36–38, 75, 232
children, color and, 15, 25, 156, 275
chlorine gas, 32
chromatic culture tropes, 235–236
chromatic hybridity, 18–19, 137, 204, 224; colorists, 206–209; color techniques and, 205–206; in French historical cinema, 216; in Lonesome, 219–220; in 1920s, 205; The Phantom of the Opera and, 212
chromatic innovation, 13, 24, 31, 226, 227, 228
chromatic modernism, 202
chromatic networks, 61–65
chromatic realism, 222, 234
chromatic revolution, 13, 63, 150, 226
CIE. See International Commission on Illumination
Cinecolor, 233, 238
Cinéma pur, 183–195; Ballet mécanique, 188–189; color and, 186–187
cinematic dynamism, 223–224
cineplastic poems, 308n149
Cirano di Bergerac (1923/1925), 19, 216–217, 260, 271
Clair, René, 127, 165, 183, 185, 186
Classical Hollywood cinema, 4, 6, 13, 16, 33, 35, 145, 205, 272; realism and 274–275; tinting and, 264
Clavilux, 117, 118–120
Close Up (journal), 197, 296n77
Clothes Make the Woman (1926), 88
clothing, 77, 80, 88–89; advertisements, 84; costumes, 90, 91, 288n47; personal preference and, 74, 87; racial reference, 96, 243
CNC. See Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
color absorption technique, 108–109
color acuity, 78
colorant guidebooks, 26–27, 34–36
colorant industry, 16–17; by-products of, 22; development of, 21–22; film tinting and toning guidebooks and, 34–36; in Germany, 23–24, 36–37, 49, 282n38, 301n23; globally, 23–24, 36–37; history of, 23; interwar period, 32; knowledge transfer and, 36–38; paint and, 149–150; patents, 45; in U.S., 23–24, 282n45; World War I and, 31–32
Colorart Pictures, 88, 197, 290n99
color chart, 11–13, 12–13, 24–30; detail, 27; film-stock, 34; naming color and, 26; Ostwald, 159
color cinema: aniline dye in, 33; applied color and, 4; archival issues, 3; avant-garde, 18; chromatic practice in, 16–17; colorant production, 5–6; color culture and, 13; demand for, 226–227, 238; in Depression, 19, 226; early, 4; emotional meaning of color, 11–12; fashion and, 80; inconsistency in, 100–101; intermediality of, 9; modernity and, 2; Napoléon, 1–2; natural color, 4; 1920s, 2–8, 14; pre-World War I, 33; role of, 3; silent film and, 3–4; uniform color and, 175, 181; vernacular, 18
color code, 15
color consciousness, 11–12, 66, 73, 104, 113–114, 163, 225, 251, 253; advertising and, 74; cross-media experiments and, 106; in film industry, 236–237; Natalie Kalmus on, 275; lighting and, 108; media applications, 114; Multicolor and, 237; sound cinema transition and, 233; TCCA and, 76; Technicolor, 11
color constancy, 204
color consultancy services, 75
color culture, 8; in Britain, 195–197; cinema and, 13; critics of, 26; detractors, 14–15; international, 195–203; sound cinema transition and, 226; standardization of, 29–30; in U.S., 198–199
Colored Rhythm (1912–1914), 187, 304n58
color experimentation: advertising, 274; in art, 18; mobile, 128–129; 1920s, 16, 274; photographic, 220–222
colorimetric standards, 16–17, 24
colorimetry, 24, 40–42, 57–58, 78, 153; development of, 30; Kodak and, 41–42; Troland and, 58, 112
Colorimetry Committee, 35, 57, 285n93
color magic, 162
color mapping, 30
color methodology, 3–4, 204; The Affairs of Anatol, 92–93; chromatic hybridity and, 205–206. See also specific methods
color music, 18, 104–105, 111; abstract, 14; Bourdieu and, 114–115; color-organ technology, 106, 113, 118–123; Colour-Music: The Art of Light, 114; experiments, 45, 46, 123; in film, 115–125; Jones, 45, 46, 113; Klein, 143; lighting and, 106, 136; Moholy-Nagy and, 163; movie palaces and, 137; in narrative cinema, 139; Ostwald, 160; Prizmacolor, 123–124; psychology and, 117; sound cinema and, 144–145; Spectrophone, 124, 125; Townsend and, 45, 46
color nomenclature, 26, 76–77, 293n160; Alice blue, 101, 222; film tie-ins and, 100–103; midnight sun yellow, 102; Phantom red, 101–102, 210, 212, 271; racialized color terms, 77–78; Rhapsody blue, 102–103; standardization of, 77; Sutter’s gold, 103
color-organ technology, 106, 113, 138, 139, 159–160, 163, 165; Alexander László, 126–127; Clavilux, 117, 118–120, 199; Luxorgan, 123; Sarabet, 120–122, 121
color pedagogy, 155–156; Moholy-Nagy, 163–164
color perception, 11, 27, 29–30, 45, 55, 57, 111, 156, 162–163, 185, 188, 262
color-poems, 71
color psychology, 35, 73, 78, 96, 111–112, 115, 117, 185
color revolution, 13–20, 63, 68, 129, 149, 273. See also chromatic revolution
color science, 13, 47, 79, 111, 150–151
color sphere, 28, 29
color standards, 21–65; colorant guidebooks and, 27; color chart, 24–30; international, 58; Munsell Color System, 29–30; nomenclature and, 77; research boards, 30; Technicolor and, 58
color stylists, 8
color theory, 35, 158, 172
color tree, 28
color vision, theories of, 283n56
Colour (magazine), 108
Colour-Music: The Art of Light (Klein), 114
Comstock, Daniel, 53, 55–56
Constructivism, 159
consumer: advertising, 66; color and, 17; culture, color in, 22–23; Hollywood and, 100
Container Corporation of America, 301n20
contrasted colors, 2
contrasting tints, 207
Cosmopolitan London (1924), 223–224
costumes: The Affairs of Anatol, 90, 91; color and, 288n47
Cottage on Dartmoor, A (1929), 195–197, 196
Craig, Edward Gordon, 14, 70, 287n11
Crary, Jonathan, 11, 27, 57
Crespinel, William, 230, 237–238
cross-media experiments, 6, 9; color consciousness and, 106
Crystal Chain Letters group, 149
Cubism, 25, 186, 202
Cuff, Paul, 2
cultural capital, 81, 99, 112, 128, 152, 259, 294n20, 316n101
cultural production, 6, 16, 23, 66–67, 105, 114, 151, 183, 272–273; chromatic expansion, 25; color in, 8–13; fields of, 10
cultural series, 8
culture: chromatic culture tropes, 235–236; cinema and, 33; color knowledge, 150; consumer, color in, 22–23; realism and, 234; taste, standardization of, 67–68. See also color culture
Cytherea (1924), 223
Czeschka, Carl Otto, 175–178
Dada, 18, 86, 183–186, 184, 304n68
Danse Macabre (1922), 200–201
Davis, Tobe Collier, 78
Death Kiss, The (1932), 254–256
Debussy, Claude, 121, 128, 200
décor: fashion and, 70; International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, 71–72. See also interior design
Delaunay, Sonia, 71–72, 85–86, 150, 190, 250; L’Elegance, 85; Mademoiselle Y, 86
DeMille, Cecil B., 15; The Affairs of Anatol, 89–92, 90, 210; fashion in films of, 89, 90; King of Kings, 206; The Ten Commandments, 19, 205; use of color, 34–35, 89, 92–93
Depression, 19, 143, 228, 272, 275; color cinema in, 226, 238, 249, 272, 276
Des Chenes, John W., 229
Deshairs, Léon, 71–72
De Stijl, 13, 108, 159, 294n5
Deutschland (submarine), 31
Dictionary of Color, 77–78
Dieterich, L. M., 262
van Doesburg, Theo, 14, 169, 294n5
Doucet, Jacques, 86
Dracula (1931), 19, 266, 267–269, 268
Drifters (1929), 265
Duchamp, Marcel, 18; Anémic cinéma, 186–187; Apolinère Enameled, 187–188; Tu m’, 188–189
Dulac, Edmund, 15, 187
Duo-Phantom color lighting system, 134
duotone color schemes, 172
DuPont (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company), 37, 56, 232
DuPont, Max, 232, 232–236, 235
DuPont-Pathé Film Manufacturing Company, 37, 256–258
Eastman Kodak. See Kodak
Eckert, Charles, 100
Edison, Thomas Alva, 33, 39, 53, 117
education: Bauhaus and, 127–128; 151–169; color consciousness and, 106; Milton Bradley and, 25; Munsell Color System and, 29–30; Prang and, 11; Waldorf system, 155–156
Educational Film Exchanges, 86
educational films, 237
Einfühlung, 152, 156–158, 163, 168, 197, 301–302n30, 302n31, 302n32, 302n33, 304n68
Eisenstein, Sergei, 140, 194, 195–197
Electrical Exhibition in Swansea, 134
L’Elegance (1926), 85
Elstree Calling (1930), 260–262
emotion: color and, 11–12, 264; contrasting tints and, 207–208
empathy, 301n30
Entr’acte (1924), 183, 185
Erté, 91, 99, 291n111
ethnography, 7
European cinema, 5–6, 18. See also specific films
Eve’s Review films, 82–83
Exhibition on the Art and Science of Color, 112–113
expanded cinema, 105
Expressionism, 18; film tinting and toning, 172–173; German, 170–183; uniform coloring and, 175, 181
Expressionism and Film (Kurtz), 158, 170
Fairbanks, Douglas, 61–64, 186
Farbenlichtspiele, 161, 164, 165
fashion, 66–103; The Affairs of Anatol, 89–92, 90; Belles of the Bath, 81–82; Changing Hues, 84–85; chromatic experimentation in, 274; Clothes Make the Woman, 88; color cinema and, 80; copy culture, 103; décor and, 70; in DeMille films, 89, 90; design, 17; L’Elegance, 85; Eve’s Review films, 82–83; Fashion News, 87–88; fiction film and, 88–99; film and, 80–88; film-inspired tie-in, 100–103; film stars and, 86; French, 80, 86–87; Gaumont Graphic newsreels, 82; haute couture, 67, 83, 103; high, 83; Konfektionskomödien, 99; Mademoiselle Y, 86; mass-produced, 67; McCall Fashion News, 86–87; models, 87–88; Orientalist, 95–96; ready-to-wear, 103; The Shoe Show, 82–83; shows, in film, 98–99; Technicolor and, 99; The Toll of the Sea, 96–97. See also clothing
fashion farces. See Konfektionskomödien
Fashion Forecast films, 274
Fashion News, 87–88
Fashions in Colour (1925), 83
Fauvism, 25, 149
Favre, Louis, 14
Feininger, Lyonel, 303n50
Fejos, Paul, 144, 245; Lonesome, 219
Feyder, Jacques, 93–94
FIAF. See International Federation of Film Archives
fiction film, fashion and, 88–99
Field, George, 35
fields: of cultural production, 10; industrial, of film, 21–65
Fig Leaves (1926), 98, 99, 100
Film as Art (Arnheim), 15
Films Albatros, 93, 190; tinting and toning, 194–195
film stars: color and, 11–13; fashion and, 86; interior design and, 75
film stock: 3, 19, 33–35, 37, 38, 40, 48, 172–175, 230, 232, 256–258; color chart, 34; Kodak production of color, 38–39; pretinted for sound, 264. See also Sonochrome
film tinting and toning, 35, 48–50, 50, 51; blue, 175; Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 181–182; colorists on, 206–209; contrasting, 207; debates about, 207; Expressionist film and, 172–173; Films Albatros, 194–195; guidebooks, 34; Handschiegl, 198; Handschiegl/Wyckoff process, 93; L’inhumaine, 192; Kodak, 265–266; The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, 215; Napoléon, 217–218; pretinted, 19, 33–35, 38, 40, 61–64, 129, 144, 174, 208, 263–269; psychology and, 175; sound cinema, 63, 262–266
fire, color of, 208–209, 253–256
Fischer, Lucy, 5, 23, 91–92, 141
Fischinger, Oskar, 14, 126–127, 139, 163, 226, 262, 274
Flueckiger, Barbara, 181, 277n7
forecasting: color, 8, 27; color trend, 75, 87
frame jumping, 309n154
France: Art Deco in, 190; black-and-white film, 185–186; Cinéma pur, 183–195; L’Elegance, 85; fashion, 80; International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, 17, 71–73; interwar period in, 189; narrative avant-garde film, 183–195
French fashion, 80, 86–87
French historical cinema: Cirano di Bergerac, 216–217; color hybridity in, 216; Michel Strogoff, 216–217; Napoléon, 217–219
Friese-Greene’s Natural Colour, 18, 38; fringing, 220–221
fringing, 220–221
Fuller, Loïe, 115–117, 116
Gance, Abel, 1–2, 217
Gaskill, Nicholas, 25
Gasparcolor process, 262, 274
Gaudreault, André, 8–9
Gaumont Graphic newsreels, 82
General Electric Company, 74, 282n45
Genina, Augusto, 19, 216–217
German Expressionism, 4, 18, 156, 158, 170–183, 201–202
Germany, 7; chemical industry in, 37–38; colorant industry in, 23–24, 36–37, 49, 282n38, 301n23; movie palaces, 131–132; narrative cinema, 170; 1920s, 151–152; U.S. synthetic color production and, 36–37; World War I and, 31–32
Gershwin, George, 58, 246
Gesamtkunstwerk (total art), 14, 104, 131
Gestalt psychology, 57
Gevaert tinting and toning guidebook, 34
Gish, Lillian, 70
Glashaus, 148, 148–149
Glass Architecture, The, 25, 148, 159, 189
Glorious Adventure, The (1922), 141–142, 220; Prizmacolor in, 213
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 26
gray, 85
Great Britain, 14, 195–197, 214, 270–271; British Pathé 259–262, 266;colorant industry and, 21–22, 30, 37; colored lighting and, 114, 132–134; color forecasting and, 77–79; German exiles in, 274; International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts and influence on, 73; Technicolor in, 239
Greenewalt, Mary Hallock, 120–122, 121, 140
Gribiche (1926), 93–94
Grierson, John, 265, 308n149
Gropius, Alma Mahler, 149, 155
Gropius, Walter, 149, 154–156, 159; art and technology, 158; Bauhaus curriculum, 154, 155
Gunning, Tom, 4, 175, 180
Gursky, Andreas, 273
Hampton, Hope, 86–87
hand coloring, 206–209, 222, 251–256; Ballet mécanique, 206, 306n114; Changing Hues, 84–85; early cinema and, 8–9, 33, 117, 227, 236; experimental cinema and, 262; Mary Hallock Greenewalt and, 122; Lonesome, 219–220; Midnight Sun, 102; Dudley Murphy and, 200–201; realism and, 207; Hans Richter and, 169; Walter Ruttmann and, 178. See also Gustav Brock.
Handschiegl, Max, 209
Handschiegl (Wyckoff) coloring process, 89, 92–93, 198, 209–210, 230, 251, 312n15; films using, 210, in The Phantom of the Opera, 137, 209–213, in Salomé, 198
Hansen, Miriam, 7, 33, 272; vernacular modernism, 7–8, 67, 105, 126
haute couture, 67, 83, 99, 103
Hawks, Howard, 98
Herzog, Werner, 269
Hesmondhalgh, David, 16
Higgins, Scott, 4, 249
Hirschfeld-Mack, Ludwig, 127, 161, 165
Hitchcock, Alfred: Elstree Calling, 260, 262; The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, 213–216; Spellbound, 256; Vertigo, 273
Hollywood, 5; American hegemony and, 228; consumer and, 100; Technicolor and, 233, 239, 249
Holophane lighting, 132–134, 133; Duo-Phantom color lighting system, 134
home moderne, Le (1929), 68–69
IG Farben, 36–37
Illuminating Engineering Society, 65, 286n108
Imbibition printing, 56, 61, 63, 112, 230, 294n18, 310n22; Handschiegl and, 251
Impressionism, 25, 26
incandescent lighting technology, 14, 115, 117
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, 242
indigenous colors, appropriation of, 6–7, 26, 234, 244
Ingram, Rex, 18, 199
L’inhumaine (1924), 18, 190, 273; Ballet mécanique and, 193–194; color tinting and toning in, 192, 194; criticism, 202; restoration, 192–193, 193
interior design, 68, 72, 92; Café Aubette, 106–108, 107; Cecil B. DeMille and, 89, film stars and, 75; The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, 214–215
intermediality, 5, 8–13, 203, 212, 271–272; of color cinema, 9; Arts and Crafts and, 199; Cecil B. DeMille and, 15; Duchamp and, 187–188; Expressionism and, 180–181; L’inhumaine, 190–194; The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, 213–216; 1920s, 272; Die Nibelungen, 173–177; The Viking, 241; performance and, 105, 108, 117, 139; sound and, 144
International Commission on Illumination (CIE), 30, 39, 41, 58, 64
International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris (1925), 17, 79, 190; décor, 71–73; L’Herbier exhibit at, 191; influence of, 72–73
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), 4
International Style, 149, 151
Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC), 41, 78–79, 289n67
interwar period, 2, 5, 272; advertising in, 189; colorant industry, 32; colorimetry, 30, 41–42; in France, 48, 189, in United States, 23
Irene (1926), 101, 222
Irwin, Beatrice, 78–79, 111
ISCC. See Inter-Society Color Council
Itten, Johannes, 14, 153–155, 157; color pedagogy, 156
Japan, 37
jazz, 202, 243, 245–248
Jazz Age, 202; color and, 6, 22, 226; racism and, 243, 244
Johnston, Sean, 30, 41–42
Jones, Loyd, 16, 35, 41, 106; color music experiments, 45, 46, 113; mobile color experiments, 128–129; on physiological optics, 47; on tinting, 208; Troland and, 285n93
Julian, Rupert, 17, 19
Kalmus, Herbert, 53, 55–57, 106, 230; on sound technology, 233, 238
Kalmus, Natalie, 11; codes for color scoring, 145; Color Advisory Service and Color Control Department, 79, 239, 249; color chart, 12–13; on color consciousness, 106, 11, 236, 264, 275
karierte Regenmantel, Der (The Checkered Raincoat, film), 88–89
Keller-Dorian, Albert, 52, 250
Keller-Dorian process, 2, 19, 52, 85, 217, 249–251; patents, 250
Kelley Color, 19
Kinemacolor, 4, 38, 231–232
King of Jazz (1930), 58, 102–103, 144–145; animation, 247; jazz history in, 245–248; multilingual versions, 248; race and, 244–248; Rhapsody in Blue in, 246
King of Kings (1927), 206
Klee, Paul, 150
Klein, Adrian, 14, 111, 117, 137, 145; color music, 143; Colour-Music: The Art of Light, 114
Klimt, Gustav, 176
knowledge transfer, 24, 65, 151; Absolute Film and, 168, colorant industry and, 36–38; media and, 69; in 1920s, 36–38
Kodachrome, 40, 45, 52–53, 238; Keller-Dorian process and, 250; Loyd Jones and, 113; McCall Fashion News, 86–87
Kodacolor, 40, 52, 250
Kodak (Eastman Kodak): color film stock production, 38–39; colorimetric standards, 16–17; colorimetry and, 41–42; film tinting and toning, 35, 265–266; Pathé and, 48–53; The Taming of the Shrew and, 61–63; “The Evolution of Film,” 63; tinted film, 63; tinting and toning guidebook, 34. See also Kodachrome; Kodacolor; Loyd Jones, Kenneth Mees, Sonochrome
Kodak Research Laboratories, 38–47, 39, 41; Abridged Scientific Publications, 43, 45; associated research societies, 40–42; founding, 39; Kodachrome, 40, 45; Monthly Abstract Bulletins, 42–45, 44; published journals, 42–45; specific research, 42; staff, 40
Konfektionskomödien (fashion farces), 99
Kracauer, Siegfried, 14, 131–132, 180; Theory of Film, 172
Kudo, Akira, 37
Kurtz, Rudolf, 126, 147, 168, 171, 178, 180, 182; Expressionism and Film, 158, 170
Lady Pepperell, 74–75
Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 245
Lang, Fritz, 18, 241; blue tinting, 175; Kriemhild’s Rache, 173, 177; Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, 170, 173, 175–178
Language of Color, The (Luckiesh), 64–65
Lanvin, Jeanne, 86, 89
László, Alexander, 126–127
Layton, James, 4, 233, 238, 245, 248, 260
Léger, Fernand, 6, 18, 193–194; Ballet mécanique, 127, 149, 165, 183–186, 184, 188–190, 206, 307–308 n. 114; color for, 189–90
L’Herbier, Marcel, 18, 86, 197; L’inhumaine, 190–194; International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris, 191
Lichtspiele Opus No. 1 (1921), 125–126
light blue, 15
lighting, 14, 17–18, 30, 70, 105–106, 175; ambient mood lighting, 106; artificial, 115–117; color consciousness and, 108; color music and, 106, 136; Duo-Phantom color lighting system, 134; Electrical Exhibition in Swansea, 134; Fuller skirt dance and, 115–117, 116; marquee, 108–109, 109; movie palaces and, 47, 136–137, 140–141, 272; neon, 108–109, 130–131; religious analogies, 138; standards, 58; St. Mark’s Church, 138; theater, 110, 132–134, 133. See also incandescent lighting; International Commission on Illumination (CIE); Holophane lighting; Matthew Luckiesh; neon lighting
Lipps, Theodore, 156, 158, 302n31
Lodger, The: A Story of the London Fog (1926), 213–216; color in, 215–216; film tinting and toning, 215; restoration, 214
Lonesome (1928), 144; color hybridity in, 219–220; hand coloring in, 220
Love (1920), 89
Lubitsch, Ernst: One Hour with You, 19, 265; Das Weib des Pharao, 213
Luckiesh, Matthew, 35, 74, 101, 111; color-organ technology, 113, 139; The Language of Color, 64–65; Troland and, 112, 286n108
Lugosi, Bela, 267, 269
Luminous and the Grey, The (Batchelor), 204
Luxorgan, 123
Mabery, Mary, 236, 236
Mack, Roy, 1, 3, 239
Mademoiselle Y (1920), 86
Malerei, Photographie, Film (Painting, Photography, Film) (Moholy-Nagy), 150–151, 160–162, 160; moving-image technology, 163, 164
Marion, Philippe, 8
Marsch, Ulrich, 37
Marzola, Luci, 39, 47
mass consumption, 17, 24, 33, 66, 67, 272
mass marketing, 66
mauveine, 22
McCall Fashion News, 86–87
media: advertising, 67; color consciousness and, 114; color in, 14, 20, 64; cross-media experiments, 6, 9–10, 14, 106, 130; digital media, 275; knowledge transfer and, 69; synthesis, 139–143; vernacular media, 8
Mees, Kenneth, 39–40, 41, 45, 47, 225
merchandising, trends, 74–80
Metropole Cinema, 138
MGM, 266
Michel Strogoff (1926), 195, 216–217
Midnight Sun (1926), 102
midnight sun yellow, 102
Milner, Victor, 263–265
Misek, Richard, 205
mobile color, 105, 113, 115–118, 120, 122, 138, 139. See also Loyd Jones
modernism, 5, 93, 134, 149–151; chromatic, 202; color and, 6, 18, 24, 148, 149, 274; Napoléon and, 2. See also Miriam Hansen
modernist art, 6, 27, 149
modernity: American, 228, 244; color and, 2, 4, 21, 24, 68, 131, 149; color cinema and, 2; in film, 7, 33; of 1920s, 6–7, 23, 219, 272–273
modern painting, 5, 162
Moholy-Nagy, László: Bauhaus and, 158–159, 169, 303n50; color music and, 163; color pedagogy, 163–164; on Farblichtspiele, 165; Malerei, Photographie, Film (Painting, Photography, Film), 150–151, 160, 160–168
Mondrian, Piet, 150
monotone color schemes, 172
Monte Carlo (1926), 99
mood: ambient mood lighting, 18, 106; color and, 35, 69, 74, 117, 123, 129, 140, 264
Moviecolor, 249, 251
movie palaces: colored lighting, 47; color in, 18; color music and, 137; German, 131–132; Kinogestaltung cinema design, 153–154; lighting and, 136–137, 140–141; Metropole Cinema, 138; 1920s, 272; orchestras, 299n130; Ritz Cinema, 134–136, 135; spectacle of, 14; Tuschinski Theatre, 272
moving-image technology, 163
Multicolor, 229–230; camera attachment, 231; color consciousness and, 237; process, 230; sound and, 236
Munsell, Albert Henry, 28, 29–30, 29
Munsell Color System, 29–30
Münsterberg, Hugo, 30, 55–56, 112
Murnau, F. W., 173; Nosferatu, 170–172, 171, 180–181
Murphy, Dudley, 18, 199–202; Ballet mécanique, 183–186, 184, 188–189, 201–202; color for, 189, 200; racialized color for, 201; Soul of the Cypress, 200; Visual Symphony Productions, 200
music: abstract color, 14; silent cinema, 2; visual, 113. See also color music
musical films, 102, 234, 237–239, 240, 244–246, 260, 274
Music Films, 142
Napoléon (1927), 1–2, 217–219, 218, 271; film tinting and toning, 217–218; restoration, 217
narrative cinema, 4, 190; avant-garde, 171, 183–195; color and, 15, 219; color music in, 139; German, 170
National Bureau of Standards, U.S., 30, 40, 41
naturalism, 234
Nazimova, Alla, 18; Salomé, 198–199
negative cutting, 173–174
Neo-Impressionism, 25
neon lighting, 72, 108–109, 130–131, 220; Walter Benjamin and, 7–8
newsreels: fashion, 17, 80–81; Gaumont Graphic, 82; Pathéchrome, 259–260; Pathé-Cinéma, 258–259
New Typography, 161
Nibelungen, Die: Siegfried and Kriemhild’s Rache (1924), 170, 173–180; color in, 176–177; “Dream of the Hawks” sequence, 177, 178; restoration, 305n81
Nickerson, Dorothy, 78–79
Nickolaus, John M., 266–267
1930s, 16; color in, 251–256, 274–275; Depression, 19, 226; British GPO, 273
Nordau, Max, 26
Nosferatu (1922), 170–172, 171, 180–181, 267
Nutting, Perley, 40–41
O’Brien, Charles, 144–145
occult, 6, 18, 55, 150; Bauhaus and, 149, 152, 154–156, 158; in art education, 155; Paul Scheerbart and, 148; Dudley Murphy and, 199
One Hour with You (1932), 19, 265
One Way Street (Benjamin), 7
Open Road, The (1925), 221, 311n44
Optical Society of America, 30, 40–41. See also Colorimetry Committee
optical unconscious, 303n45
optics, of color, 45, 47, 58
Opus I (1921), 178, 178–179
orange, 64, 72
orchestras for cinema, 299n130
Orientalism: racial conventions, 6, 89, 239; The Toll of the Sea, 94–97, 223
orientalist color, 6
Ostwald, Wilhelm, 153–154, 301n23; color chart, 159; color music, 160
paint, 25, 26, 149–150
painting, 71, 149, 176, 187–189, 236, 303n51; modern, 162; Cecil B. DeMille and, 15
patents: colorant industry, 5, 23–24; color process, 250–251; Kodak, 42–45; Pathé, 50, 52; research standards of, 53; Troland and Technicolor, 56–58, 59, 60
Pathéchrome, 256–258, 257; Elstree Calling, 260–262; newsreels, 259–260; sound films, 258–260
Pathé-Cinéma: Le home moderne, 68; newsreels, 258–259; stenciling, 256
Pathécolor, 256
Pathé Frères, 17; Cahiers des Ingénieurs Pathé Frères, 48–53, 284n65; color process innovation, 48–49; Kodak and, 48–53; sound cinema and, 228; tinting and toning guidebook, 34. See also DuPont-Pathé Film Manufacturing Company
Pathé-Review, fashion films, 81
Perkin, William Henry, 22
Pešánek, Zdenĕk, 125
Pethö, Ágnes, 9, 271
Phantom of the Opera, The (1925), 17, 19, 64, 79–80, 271; Bal Masqué sequence, 210–211; color hybridity and, 212; color in, 212–213; Handschiegl/Wyckoff chromatic effects in, 209–213; Phantom red, 101–102, 212; Technicolor in, 211
Phantom red, 101–102, 210, 212, 271
photographic color, 4; applied color compared with, 229–230, 251; experiments, 220–222; processes, 14, 18–19; sound and, 229–251; technologies, 229
photography, 52; Moholy-Nagy and, 161–163, 303n51; Pictorialist, 200
Photoplay (magazine), 74–75
physiological optics, 45, 47
physiology, 22, 27, 35, 47, 57–58, 188; afterimages, 27, impairment, 26. See also color perception; psychophysics
Picasso, Pablo, 6; Violin, Glass, Pipe and Anchor, Souvenir of Le Havre, 25
Pickford, Mary, 89
Pierce, David, 4, 233, 238, 245, 248, 260
pink, 85
Pinschewer, Julius, 167, 168, 179
pochoir, see stenciling
Poiret, Paul, 71, 86
politicized color terms, 77–78
Polyvision, 1–2
Pommer, Erich, 170–171
postmillennial screen productions, 275–276
Powell, Alvin Leslie, 136–137, 141
Prang, Louis, 11, 25, 33
pretinted film stocks, 144. See also Sonochrome
primitivist art, 6
printed sound stock, 264
print ephemera, color in, 22
printing, color, 25
printmaking, 14
Prizmacolor, 18, 123–124, 208, 233; experiments, 220–222; in The Glorious Adventure, 213
Prizma films, 142
psychological realism, 206
psychology, 57; color, 111–112; color consciousness, 67; color music and, 117; film tinting and, 175; synthetic color and, 26
psychophysics, 55, 57–58, 111, 150, 153, 158, 168, 187, 262, 302n33
race: in King of Jazz, 244–248; Orientalism and, 239; in Redskin, 242–244; in Toll of the Sea, 94–97
racialized color, 201, 234; Redskin, 242–244; terms, 77–78
racism, 243
Rainbow Dance (1936), 262
Ramsaye, Terry, 258
Rand, John Goffe, 149
Raumlichtkunst (space light art), 127
Ray, Man, 187
Raycol, 249
ready-to-wear fashion, 103
realism, 307n117; chromatic, 222, 234; culture and, 234; hand coloring and, 207; psychological, 206
red, 15, 150; Phantom red, 101–102, 210, 271
Redskin (1929), 230, 234, 243; race in, 242–244
Reflektorische Farblichtspiele (Schwerdtfeger), 164, 165
Reiniger, Lotte, 167, 168
Reklame-Architektur, 301n16
restoration and preservation, 3, 276; L’inhumaine, 192–193, 193; The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, 214; Napoléon, 217; Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, 305n81
Rhapsody blue, 102–103
Rhapsody in Blue (Gershwin), 246
Rialto theater, 142
Richter, Hans, 6, 14, 164–165, 296n77, 304n68; on abstract form, 168–169
Ritz Cinema, 134–136, 135
Romanticism, 80, 200, 241, 244
Rorke, Margaret Hayden, 75–77, 79–80, 103
Royal Opera House, 141–142
Runge, Friedlieb Ferdinand, 21
Ruttmann, Walter, 7, 14, 273; Der Aufsteig, 127; color and, 168, 180; Lichtspiele Opus No. 1, 125–126; Opus I, 178, 178–179; Der Sieger: Ein Film in Farben, 179, 179–180
Said, Edward, 94–95
Salomé (1923), 198–199
Sarabet color organ, 120–122, 121
Scheerbart, Paul, 25, 147–148, 189
Schlanger, Ben, 129
Schwerdtfeger, Kurt, 127–128, 161; Reflektorische Farblichtspiele, 164, 165
Seitz, John, 67
Sennett, Max, 237
sensory perception, aesthetics and, 303n46
Shirley, Lois, 11, 13
Shoe Show, The, 82–83
Sieger, Der: Ein Film in Farben (Ruttmann), 179, 179–180
Smith, George Albert, 4
Smouldering Fires (1925), 207–208
Society of Motion Picture Engineers, 24, 41, 129; Symposium on Color, 225–226, 251; Symposium on Sound Recording, 225–226
Sognot, Louis, 71–72
Sonochrome, 19, 35, 40, 61–65, 129, 144, 208; advertisement, 263; Dracula, 267–269; Redskin, 242; sound cinema and, 61, 263–264; Verdante tint, 267, 269
Soul of the Cypress (1920), 200
sound cinema, 143–146, 225–269; applied color and, 251–269; color and, 225–269; color consciousness and transition to, 233; color music and, 144–145; film tinting and toning, 63, 262–266; Multicolor process and, 236; Pathéchrome, 258–260; photographic color and, 229–251; printed sound stock, 264; Sonochrome and, 263–264; Technicolor and, 143, 238; tinting and, 63
sound theory, 233
space light art. See Raumlichtkunst
Spectrophone, 124, 125
Spellbound (1945), 256
stage designers, 70
Standard Color Card, 76–77
Steiner, Rudolf, 155–156
stenciling, 68, 100, 101, 216–217, 219–220, 256–262; fashion and, 80–82, 84–85; French dominance through, 186; Gaumont’s Phonoscene and, 227; pochoir, 68–69; postcards, 22; Pathé lab notebooks and, 48; Reflektorische Farblichtspiele and, 165. See also Pathéchrome
stereotypes, aesthetic color, 15
St. Mark’s Church, 138
submarine camouflage, 45
subtractive color processes, 38, 65, 230; two-color, 52. See also Multicolor; Technicolor
Survage, Léopold, 187, 304n58
Sutter’s gold, 103
Sutter’s Gold (1936), 103, 293n158
Swanson, Gloria, 89, 91
synchronized sound cinema, 19; systems, 226
synthetic coal-tar chemistry, 104
synthetic color, 149; aniline, 24; psychological impairment and, 26; U.S. production of, 36–37
synthetic dyes, 22
Taming of the Shrew, The (1929), 61–64, 62, 263
taste cultures, standardization of, 67–68
Taut, Bruno, 148, 148–149
TCCA. See Textile Color Card Association
Technical Camera Department, 229
Technicolor, 3, 4, 6, 14, 18–19, 50, 312n15; ascendency of, 16, 19, 143, 227, 275, 238; The Black Pirate, 222, 239; color consciousness and, 11; colorimetric standards, 16–17; color standards and, 58; experiments, 220–222; fashion and, 99; international expansion of, 239, 248–250; international resistance to, 256, 275; Keller-Dorian process and, 250; King of Jazz, 244–248; Musical Review, 240; The Phantom of the Opera, 210–211, 271; process, 222, 230; Redskin, 242–244; sound films and, 143, 238; technical difficulties, 221–222, 228; The Viking, 239, 241. See also Joseph A. Ball; Herbert Kalmus; Natalie Kalmus; Leonard Troland
Technicolor No. 1 additive process, 38, 221
Technicolor No. 2 subtractive process, 94–95, 97, 210–211, 221–222, 230
Technicolor No. 3 subtractive imbibition, 14, 63, 209, 211, 222, 230, 251, 255, 294n18. See also imbibition printing
Technicolor No. 4 three-strip, 64, 234, 274, 291n125
Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation: lab, 54; research, 53–60; staff, 54, 55
technology: aesthetics of, 154, 158; art and, 158; color-organ, 106, 113, 118–123; incandescent lighting, 117; moving-image, 163; photographic color, 229
Temkin, Ann, 26
Ten Commandments, The (1923), 19, 205
Textile Color Card Association (TCCA), 17, 27, 35, 289n67; color consciousness and, 76; color consultancy services, 75; color trend forecasting, 75, 87; Phantom red, 212; Standard Color Card, 76–77; Sutter’s gold, 103
theaters: Atrium Theatre, 110, 110; lighting, 132–134, 133; lobby displays, 109; Rialto theater, 142; Royal Opera House, 141–142; Tuschinski Theater, 141. See also movie palaces
Theory of Film (Kracauer), 172
Theosophy, 150, 285n86
Thompson, Kirsten Moan, 130, 282n44
391 (periodical), 184
Toll of the Sea, The (1922), 223, 242, 271; fashion, 96–97; Technicolor II subtractive process in, 94–95, 97
total-art aesthetic, 70. See also Gesamtkunstwerk
total filmmaking, 2
Tourneur, Maurice, 18, 199
Townsend, Lewis, 45, 46
transnational tropes, 6
trends: advertising, 74–80; forecasting color, 75, 87; merchandising, 74–80
trichromatic vision, theory of, 57
Troland, Leonard, 16, 45, 55–58, 112, 230; colorimetry and, 58; on color vision theories, 283n56; Jones and, 285n93; Luckiesh and, 286n108; patent research, 59, 60
tropes: chromatic culture, 235–236; transnational, 6
Tu m’ (Duchamp), 187–188
Tuschinski Theater, 141, 272
Twink Dyes, 84
two-color additive systems, 38
two-color perception, 45
two-color subtractive process, 52
Ufa, 170–171
United States (U.S.): Americanism, 228; chemical industry in, 37–38; colorant industry in, 23–24, 282n45; color culture in, 198–199; color innovation in, 228; hegemony, 228, 275; International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts and influence on, 72–73; synthetic color production in, 36–37; twentieth century, 6, 23
Universal Studios, 248, 267
Urban, Charles, 4, 221
U.S. See United States
Vacher, M., 49–50, 51
Vail, George, 118
Vampire Bat, The (1933), 254, 254
Vélez, Lupe, 74
Verdante tint, 267, 269
vernacular art, 105, 128–129, 164
vernacular modernism, 7–8, 67, 105, 126, 186
Vertigo (1958), 273
Vienna Secession, 175–176
Viking, The (1928), 230, 234, 239–241
Violin, Glass, Pipe and Anchor, Souvenir of Le Havre (Picasso), 25
Virgin Queen, The (1923), 271
vision: color, theories of, 283n56; color acuity, 78; trichromatic, theory of, 57
visual literacy, 162
visual music, 113
visual symphonies, 308n149
Visual Symphony Productions, 200
Vitacolor, 19, 229–234, 232; chromatic culture tropes and, 235–236; DuPont and, 236; “Vitacolor Girl,” 235, 236
Warners’ Theatre, 108–109, 110
Weib des Pharao, Das (1921), 213
Weinberg, Louis, 68
Wescott, W. Burton, 52, 56
Whitford, Annabelle, 8–9, 236
Whitney, Willis, 282n45
Wiene, Robert, 18, 170; Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 180–183
Wilde, Oscar, 198
Wilfred, Thomas, 47, 199; color organ, 117, 118–120, 123, 139, 199
Wilkening, Anke, 173, 175, 181
Wilkins, Mira, 32, 37
Williams, Sherwin, 149
Wings (1927), 209
Wizard of Oz, The (1939), 266
women, color acuity of, 78
World War I: color industry and, 31–32; Germany and, 31–32
Worringer, Wilhelm, 156, 302n31, 304n68
Wratten numbers, 40
Wyckoff, Alvin, 92–93. See also Handschiegl/Wyckoff process
yellow, 64; midnight sun yellow, 102
Zunz, Olivier, 23