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Multicolor is a subtractive
Subtractive color

A subtractive color model explains the mixing of paints, dyes, inks, and natural colorants to create a range of colors, where each such color is caused by the mixture absorbing some wavelengths of light and reflecting others....
 natural color process for motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma Color
Prizma

The Prizma Color system was a technique of color motion picture photography, invented in 1913 by William Van Doren Kelley and Charles Raleigh. Initially, it was a two-color additive color, similar to its predecessor, Kinemacolor....
 process, and was the forerunner of Cinecolor
Cinecolor

Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model RG color space film process, based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and 1930s....
.

For a Multicolor film, a scene is shot with a normal camera capable of bipacking film. Two black-and-white 35mm negatives are threaded bipack
Bipack

In cinematography, bipacking, or a bipack, is the process of loading two reels of film into a camera, so that they both pass through the camera gate together....
 in the camera. One records the color red (via a dyed panchromatic
Panchromatic

Panchromatic film is a type of black-and-white photographic film that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light. A panchromatic film therefore produces a realistic image of a scene....
 film), and the other, blue (orthochromatic
Orthochromatic

Orthochromatic refers to any spectrum of light that is devoid of red light....
).






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Multicolor is a subtractive
Subtractive color

A subtractive color model explains the mixing of paints, dyes, inks, and natural colorants to create a range of colors, where each such color is caused by the mixture absorbing some wavelengths of light and reflecting others....
 natural color process for motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
. Multicolor, introduced to the motion picture industry in 1929, was based on the earlier Prizma Color
Prizma

The Prizma Color system was a technique of color motion picture photography, invented in 1913 by William Van Doren Kelley and Charles Raleigh. Initially, it was a two-color additive color, similar to its predecessor, Kinemacolor....
 process, and was the forerunner of Cinecolor
Cinecolor

Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model RG color space film process, based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and 1930s....
.

For a Multicolor film, a scene is shot with a normal camera capable of bipacking film. Two black-and-white 35mm negatives are threaded bipack
Bipack

In cinematography, bipacking, or a bipack, is the process of loading two reels of film into a camera, so that they both pass through the camera gate together....
 in the camera. One records the color red (via a dyed panchromatic
Panchromatic

Panchromatic film is a type of black-and-white photographic film that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light. A panchromatic film therefore produces a realistic image of a scene....
 film), and the other, blue (orthochromatic
Orthochromatic

Orthochromatic refers to any spectrum of light that is devoid of red light....
). In printing, duplitized stock
Duplitized film

Duplitized film stock was a type of film available through various companies used in color photography and special effects. It was introduced in the early 1910s....
 is exposed with one record on each side, the cyan record being toned
Film tinting

Film tinting is the process of adding color to black and white film, usually by means of soaking the film in dye and staining the film emulsion....
 a complementary red with a copper ferrocyanide solution, and the red being toned blue/cyan with ferric ferrocyanide solution. The effect is a duotone color system, lacking the primary color of green. However, to most, the lacking colors do not seem to leave unnatural color, largely due to optical illusion.

Multicolor enjoyed brief success in early sound pictures. The following features included sequences in Multicolor: This Thing Called Love (1929), His First Command (1929), Red Hot Rhythm (1929), Sunny Side Up
Sunny side up

Sunny side up can refer to:*Fried egg*Sunny Side Up, a 1929 film directed by David Butler starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, noted for its use of an almost wandering mobile camera in a way highly atypical of the early sound period....
 (1929), Married In Hollywood (1929), The Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929), The Great Gabbo
The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo is an early sound film musical drama. As originally released by Sono Art-World Wide Pictures, the film featured sequences in Multicolor....
 (1929), New Movietone Follies of 1930 (1930) and Delicious (1931). A sequence in Hell's Angels
Hell's Angels (film)

Hell's Angels is a Cinema of the United States epic film war film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, and James Hall ....
 (1930) was filmed in Multicolor, but printed by Technicolor
Technicolor

Technicolor is the trademark for a series of Color film processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation , now a division of Thomson SA....
, as Multicolor could not yet supply as large a demand of printings in such a short amount of time. Multicolor was also utilized in several cartoons of the era.

A 15-second, behind-the-scenes clip in Multicolor of the Marx Brothers
Marx Brothers

The Marx Brothers were a popular team of sibling comedians who appeared in vaudeville, stage plays, film, and television....
 filmed on the set of Animal Crackers
Animal Crackers (film)

Animal Crackers is a 1930 comedy film, in which mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding....
 (1930) exists as part of a short subject demonstrating Multicolor. The first feature filmed entirely in Multicolor was The Hawk (1931), which was re-released five years later in Cinecolor as Phantom of Santa Fe. In 1932, the next (and final) all Multicolor feature, Tex Takes A Holiday (1932), was released.

The Multicolor plant closed in 1932 and their equipment was bought by Cinecolor in 1933.

See also

  • Bi-pack color
  • Color film (motion picture)
    Color film (motion picture)

    This article discusses the evolution and technology behind color photographic film, with specific focus on motion pictures....
  • Color photography
    Color photography

    Color photography is photography that uses media capable of representing colors which are produced chemically during the Photographic processes phase....
  • List of color film systems
    List of color film systems

    This is a list of Color film known to have been developed for shooting or viewing color motion pictures since the development of such photographic technology towards the end of the 19th century....
  • List of film formats
    List of film formats

    This list of film formats catalogues formats developed for shooting or viewing motion pictures, ranging from the Chronophotographe format from 1888, to mid-20th century formats such as the 1953 CinemaScope format, to more recent formats such as the 1992 IMAX#IMAX_HD format....

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