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British Colour Cinema: Practices and Theories is one of the outcomes of a major research project on colour and British cinema. This project was one of the last opportunities to gain an insight from surviving practitioners who worked with film colour in one of the most fascinating periods of its history. Created as a companion volume to a major history of colour in British Cinéma (Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900û55, by Sarah Street), British Colour Cinema is based on a series of interviews with practitioners who worked in the UK with Technicolor and/or Eastmancolor during the 1930s-50s. The book charts a significant period of film history, when working with colour was both difficult and expensive, and frequently involved experimentation of the highest degree. Adjusting to new systems required ingenuity and resourcefulness. The practitioners featured in the book provide a rich resource of experience and reflection on these challenges. Simon Brown, Sarah Street and Liz Watkins talk to specialists renowned for their innovative work with film colour, who provide first-hand accounts of working with major directors, including Michael Powell and John Huston, a

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Author

Brown, Simon (editor);Street, Sarah (editor);Watkins, Liz (editor)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the British Film Institute

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844574131

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, Sports