Technicolor 2-Color Additive System Motion Picture Camera
date: label: date made
content: 1916-1917
name: label: maker
content: Kalmus, Comstock and Westcott
notes: label: Description
content: First Technicolor 2-Color Additive System motion picture camera. Invented and built by Kalmus, Comstock, and Wescott, Inc. for Technicolor photography of two-color component images simultaneously from the same point of view. These exposures were made by means of a beam-splitting prism having two color (red and green) separation filters. From this negative a black and white print was processed and projected through special lenses and filters to form the additive color picture on the screen. This camera was used to photograph the first Technicolor additive system feature film, "The Gulf Between", in 1917-1918. This technology was abandoned because it required projectionists to skillfully monitor the strip synchronization. Most projectionists were untrained, resulting in screenings with "the most glaring color fringes anyone had ever seen", according to Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Entertainment, Film
label: Subject
content: Invention
label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Technicolor Corporation of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.66.074
label: catalog number
content: 66.074
label: accession number
content: 265913
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Movie Camera
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)