[Konvas] On vacation ? i watch a Sergei Paradjadov film

[Leo Vale]

--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Adam Frey <thefirstrule at chainsawlinux.com> wrote:
 
> 
> In earlier cinema times, we had Technicolor in the west
> (both Two-color & Three-strip) as well as other somewhat
> lesser known color film techniques. Did the Soviets have/use
> a similar technology to produce color films? What color
> technology would they have been using that caught on?
>

---They did have a three-strip camera and an IB type process.
Valyus' 'Stereoscopy'* has a picture of two in a stereo rig.
The IB printing was ultimitely only used for cartoons.  So it must not have been very sharp.
They might have also had a bipack process like Cinecolor.
Agfa made bi-pack color stock.

But their main procass, Sovcolor, came at the end of WWII.
The Soviets packed up Agfa's color film factory and processing lab in Prague and shipped it back to moscow.  thus the color sequences in 'Ivan the terrible, part II'.
  
> BTW: Off topic, but I saw a documentary the other day that
> said the Technicolor process was what allowed Dorothy in the
> "Wizard of Oz" to have Red shoes, when they actually shot
> silver shoes in real life (the Technicolor process turned
> them red). Can anyone confirm or deny this? I thought they
> were silver in the book, but that they used red shoes when
> shooting the film.
> 

---they were silver in the book and were changed to ruby slippers for the movie because it was in technicolor.
That the documentary stated that the technicolor process turned the shoes red, shows that too many documentaries and technical articles are written by people who have no idea about what they're writting about.

Common sense should tell one that a color process that reproduced silver as deep red needs a lot more R&D before it can be commercially viable.

*https://iiisy1.einetwork.net/search~S1/?searchtype=a&searcharg=valyus&searchscope=1&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=tvalyus

& 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'  is a long time favorite of mine.
The people in the movie are not Ukrainians, but Hutsuls who live in the area of the carpathians where The Ukraine, Poland and Romania meet.
The Russian title translates as 'Wild Horses of Fire', thus the animated red horses in the main title.

---LV