Abstract

Films

It has been frequently maintained that the screen has no need of color, in fact, that the use of color in the motion picture is a step backward from the goal of artistic perfection. On the other hand, in the whole range of problems which have occupied the minds of the film producers during the past twenty years, none has aroused greater interest or has been pursued with greater deliberation than the problem of color. Today the technical goal has been practically reached. Color has been captured for the screen. It is true that the hues reproduced are not always faithful to nature and, what is even more important, are not always pleasant to the eye. But even with these shortcomings, the technicolor, the process that has been the most successful in the field, may be said to have solved the problem within a measurable distance of the ideal.