One common misconception about cinema history is that color film was invented sometime in the 1930s. It's easy to understand why people assume this — the films most commonly identified as classics of ...

The first color movies from NASA’s New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet. “It’s exciting to see Pluto ...

More than a decade before The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind gave color motion pictures wide notoriety, Kodak was conducting Kodachrome tests. The result: a series vibrant, full color moving ...

Every era of movies has its dominant color palette and one of the key skills anyone involved in making movies needs is working out how to retro-engineer a zeitgeisty look. The point is that in the ...

Documentary film introduces the principles of color cinema, from the spectrum of light sources to the structure of multilayer film, and traces the entire process of how color is reproduced on screen.