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Trucolor was a process used and owned by Consolidated Film Industries
Consolidated Film Industries

Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory, and film processing company, and was the leading film laboratory in the Los Angeles area for many decades....
 division of Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B-film pictures, Western and movie Serial s....
. Trucolor was a two-strip (red and green) process based on the earlier work of William Van Doren Kelley's Prizma
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....
 color process.

Republic used Trucolor mostly for its westerns, through the 1940s and early 1950s. The premiere Trucolor release was Out California Way (1946) and the last film photographed in the process was Spoilers of the Forest (1957).






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Trucolor was a process used and owned by Consolidated Film Industries
Consolidated Film Industries

Consolidated Film Industries was a film laboratory, and film processing company, and was the leading film laboratory in the Los Angeles area for many decades....
 division of Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures

Republic Pictures is an in-name only independent film, television, and video distribution company that was originally a movie production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, best known for its specialization in quality B-film pictures, Western and movie Serial s....
. Trucolor was a two-strip (red and green) process based on the earlier work of William Van Doren Kelley's Prizma
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....
 color process.

Republic used Trucolor mostly for its westerns, through the 1940s and early 1950s. The premiere Trucolor release was Out California Way (1946) and the last film photographed in the process was Spoilers of the Forest (1957). With the advent of Eastmancolor
Eastman Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational corporation public company which produces imaging and photography materials and equipment. Long known for its wide range of photographic film products, Kodak is re-focusing on two major markets: digital photography and digital printing....
 and Ansco
Ansco

Ansco was the name of a photographic company based in Binghamton, New York, which produced inexpensive cameras for most of the 20th century. It also sold rebadged versions of cameras made by other manufacturers, including Agfa, Chinon Industries, and a Minolta-built model was the first 35 mm camera in space....
 color films, which gave better results at a cheaper price, Trucolor was abandoned.

In addition to feature films, Republic commissioned Robert Clampett to make one cartoon, It's a Grand Old Nag. Leonard L. Levinson was commissioned to make 4 animated cartoon travelogue
Travelogue

Travelogue is the second full-length studio album released by British synthpop band The Human League.The band at this point had yet to achieve any degree of commercial success....
s, Sloan Nibley wrote a real travelogue Carnival in Munich, and Lewis Cotlow filmed a feature length Zanzabuku in Africa. John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
 filmed a Korean War
Korean War

The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korea and South Korea regimes, with major hostilities lasting from June 25, 1950 until the armistice signed on July 27, 1953....
 documentary in the process This is Korea (1951). Republic made an epic version of the battle of the Alamo
Battle of the Alamo

The Battle of the Alamo is the most famous battle of the Texas Revolution. After a revolutionary army of Texian settlers and adventurers from the United States drove all Mexican troops out of Mexican Texas, Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led an invasion to regain control of the area....
, The Last Command
The Last Command (1955 film)

The Last Command is a 1955 Trucolor film about Jim Bowie and the fall of the Alamo. Filmed by Republic Pictures, it was an unusually expensive undertaking for the low-budget studio....
 where the Mexican uniforms were made in sky blue to look better on the screen. Republic also made a South Seas adventure Fair Wind to Java (1953) that climaxed with the explosion of Krakatoa
Krakatoa

Krakatoa , also spelled Krakatao, is a Island#Oceanic islands in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is used for the island group, the main island , and the volcano as a whole....
. Trucolor went on location to Europe as William Dieterle
William Dieterle

William Dieterle was a Germany actor and film director, who in 1937 attained United States citizenship....
 filmed the life of Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, Conducting, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas . Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works....
 in Magic Fire
Magic Fire

Magic Fire is a biographical film about the life of composer Richard Wagner, released in the United States on March 29, 1956 by Republic Pictures....
 (1956) and Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 featured in the potboiler
Potboiler

Potboiler or pot-boiler is a term used to describe a poor quality novel, play, opera, or film, or other creative work that was created quickly to make money to pay for the creator's daily expenses ....
 Lisbon directed by and starring Ray Milland
Ray Milland

Ray Milland was a Wales-born United States actor and Film director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ....
. However, John Ford
John Ford

John Ford was an United States film director of Ireland heritage famous for both his western such as Stagecoach and The Searchers and adaptations of such 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath ....
 refused to film The Quiet Man
The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man is a United States Romantic film drama film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald....
 in Trucolor despite Republic's head Herbert J. Yates insisting on the process, so 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....
 was used.

Trucolor films were shot in 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....
, with the two strips of film being sensitized to red and green. Both negatives were processed on duplitized film
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....
, much like Trucolor's rival process 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....
. Unlike Cinecolor, however, the film was not dyed with a toner but a color coupler, similar to Eastman color film. Because of this chemical composition, Trucolor film fades over time, unlike Cinecolor.

See also

  • 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....
  • 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....


External links

  • Trucolor at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/keyword/trucolor/