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There have been a few questions that I've always wondered the answers too, and seeing how knowledgable some people are on this forum, I hope I might get some answers.
We all know what the first talkie was - The Jazz Singer - and that Snow White was the first full length animation - but what I want to know are the answers to these questions:
1) What was the first film produced in colour? (I mean in full colour, not the tinting or adding of colour that used to happen with silents)
2) After Sunset Boulevard became the last film to use Nitrate film stock, what was the first to use the new stock?
3) What was the first film in widescreen? (I have a feeling it's Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business)
4) What was the first film to use Stereo? Dolby? etc
5) Which is the oldest Hollywood film studio? And what is the first full length feature they produced?
Tough questions, I know. Are the answers out there?
The first film to use Stereo was The Robe and dolby Stereo sound is Apocalypse Now
One you haven't asked - what was the last film to use the three-strip technicolour process?
Dario Argento's Suspiria (if memory serves).
You might be able to find some info about your sound question here (http://www.mtsu.edu/~smpte/timeline.html)
The first known True colour film was in Technicolor in 1917 The Gulf Between. But the true feature film was in 1922 The toll of the sea. www.technicolor.com
Originally posted by Thornastor
The first film to use Stereo was The Robe and dolby Stereo sound is Apocalypse Now
Er, no. <i>Fantasia</i> had a stereo ("Fantasound") track on its first release.
Dolby firsts -
Dolby mono - <i>Callan</i>
Dolby stereo: <i>Lisztomania</i> (2-track)
Dolby SR - not sure, but <i>Innerspace</i> and <i>RoboCop</i> were the first films I saw the logo on
Digital soundtrack - <i>Dick Tracy</i> (in the now-obsolete Cinema Digital Sound format)
DTS - <i>Jurassic Park</i>
Dolby Digital - <i>Batman Returns</i>
SDDS - <i>The Last Action Hero</i>
Dolby Digital EX - <i>Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace</i>
Originally posted by Assilem23
There have been a few questions that I've always wondered the answers too, and seeing how knowledgable some people are on this forum, I hope I might get some answers.
We all know what the first talkie was - The Jazz Singer - and that Snow White was the first full length animation - but what I want to know are the answers to these questions:
1) What was the first film produced in colour? (I mean in full colour, not the tinting or adding of colour that used to happen with silents)
First feature in 3-strip Technicolor was <i>Becky Sharp</i>, if you want to be pedantic about <u>full</u> colour.
<b>3) What was the first film in widescreen? (I have a feeling it's Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business)</b>
Depends what you mean by "widescreen". The climax of Abel Gance's <i>Napoleon</i> was projected on three screens side by side.
There were experiments with 70mm film in the late 20s and early 30s, namely a process called Grandeur (which gave a ratio of 2:1). The best known Grandeur films are <i>The Bat Whispers, Billy the Kid</i> and <i>The Big Trail</i>.
First CinemaScope release was <i>The Robe</i>.
Snow White was the first full length animation
Actually The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1925) is now thought to be the first animation feature, by all except Disney that is.
The first film in full colour when this means three-strip technicolor was Becky Sharp (1935)
There have been various experiments with widescreen dating back to the silent era, e.g. Napoleon. The first film to use Cinemascope however was The Robe (1953).
The Dates for the formation of the major film studios are as following
Columbia 1920
Fox 1915
Loew's/MGM 1910
Famous Players/Paramount 1912
RKO 1928
United Artists 1919
Universal 1912
Warner Bros 1923
So on this basis MGM wins as Loew's which became MGM in 1924 was formed in 1910. Of course there were Hollywood Studios prior to 1912, e.g. Keystone, but these are the formation dates for the what most people consider the major studios.
It is very difficult to determine what was the first feature length film for each company, because there is no obvious way to decide what a feature is. A four reel film is normally considered a feature, but there are occasions where two films of almost the same length are described differently. For example Keaton's Sherlock Junior (1924) is considered to be a feature while Chaplin's The Pilgrim (1923) is considered to be a short. The strange thing is that Sherlock Junior is actually shorter than The Pilgrim.
Pete George
"What was the first film produced in colour? (I mean in full colour, not the tinting or adding of colour that used to happen with silents)"
...I suggest you visit the American Widescreen Museum - which, despite its rather misleading name, is not just about 'widescreen' processes, but also has interesting information about various <a href="http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/index.htm">colo(u)r processes</a>...
...oh... and with all due respect to the British and their loverly language,
Dr Kalmus' process was called (is called to this day, even in the UK!!!) "Technicolor" (not ...colour) (just as that sappy movie was called "Pearl Harbor", not "...Harbour")...
...and, btw, the Germans invented what is now called Agfacolor... first full-length feature made using that process was Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (1936), followed six years later by Die goldene Stadt (1942), the no-expense-spared, all-star Münchhausen (1943), and the brilliantly photographed Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944), to name just a few...
...a few French movies of the 1950s and '60s were filmed using the Belgian Gevaert process....
...a great many contemporary French movies are filmed in the Japanese Fujicolor...
...the Russians, as everybody knows, actually invented colour photography, and - for a while - used their very own Sovcolor process (actually derived from Agfacolor), for instance in the color sequence of Ivan The Terrible, Part 2 (1945, immediately suppressed and re-premiered at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair), and the stunningly gorgeous (at least I remember it thusly, dimly, from long, so long ago) The Stone Flower (1946) (can't wait for the RUSCICO release of this gem!)...
...the Italians at one time had a process called Ferraniacolor, but I don't think they ever used it for feature-length films, only for shorts...
...and, I might add, the Americans did not use just Technicolor... there was also Cinecolor (a.k.a. 'the poor man's Technicolor'), later 'improved' to Super Cinecolor - think Abbott & Costello in Jack And The Beanstalk (1952), or Joan Crawford in the unforgettable Johnny Guitar (1953) in glorious Trucolor...
...in the 1950s Hollywood tried to get away from the iron grip of Technicolor, and experimented with Eastman Color for Deep In My Heart (1954), Ansco Color for Brigadoon (1954) ... and possibly, probably several other competing color film processes as well...
(signed) Insufferably Pedantic Sam
. . . :smokin: . . .
Gary is correct in citing <b>The Robe</b> as the first film to be released in Cinemascope, but the first to be made in the process was <b>How To Marry A Millionaire</b>.
We all know what the first talkie was - The Jazz Singer - and that Snow White was the first full length animation - but what I want to know are the answers to these questions:
1) What was the first film produced in colour? (I mean in full colour, not the tinting or adding of colour that used to happen with silents)
2) After Sunset Boulevard became the last film to use Nitrate film stock, what was the first to use the new stock?
3) What was the first film in widescreen? (I have a feeling it's Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business)
4) What was the first film to use Stereo? Dolby? etc
5) Which is the oldest Hollywood film studio? And what is the first full length feature they produced?
Tough questions, I know. Are the answers out there?
Answers:
The first film to use Stereo was The Robe and dolby Stereo sound is Apocalypse Now
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One you haven't asked - what was the last film to use the three-strip technicolour process?
Dario Argento's Suspiria (if memory serves).
Answers:
You might be able to find some info about your sound question here (http://www.mtsu.edu/~smpte/timeline.html)
Answers:
The first known True colour film was in Technicolor in 1917 The Gulf Between. But the true feature film was in 1922 The toll of the sea. www.technicolor.com
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Originally posted by Thornastor
The first film to use Stereo was The Robe and dolby Stereo sound is Apocalypse Now
Er, no. <i>Fantasia</i> had a stereo ("Fantasound") track on its first release.
Dolby firsts -
Dolby mono - <i>Callan</i>
Dolby stereo: <i>Lisztomania</i> (2-track)
Dolby SR - not sure, but <i>Innerspace</i> and <i>RoboCop</i> were the first films I saw the logo on
Digital soundtrack - <i>Dick Tracy</i> (in the now-obsolete Cinema Digital Sound format)
DTS - <i>Jurassic Park</i>
Dolby Digital - <i>Batman Returns</i>
SDDS - <i>The Last Action Hero</i>
Dolby Digital EX - <i>Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace</i>
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Originally posted by Assilem23
There have been a few questions that I've always wondered the answers too, and seeing how knowledgable some people are on this forum, I hope I might get some answers.
We all know what the first talkie was - The Jazz Singer - and that Snow White was the first full length animation - but what I want to know are the answers to these questions:
1) What was the first film produced in colour? (I mean in full colour, not the tinting or adding of colour that used to happen with silents)
First feature in 3-strip Technicolor was <i>Becky Sharp</i>, if you want to be pedantic about <u>full</u> colour.
<b>3) What was the first film in widescreen? (I have a feeling it's Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business)</b>
Depends what you mean by "widescreen". The climax of Abel Gance's <i>Napoleon</i> was projected on three screens side by side.
There were experiments with 70mm film in the late 20s and early 30s, namely a process called Grandeur (which gave a ratio of 2:1). The best known Grandeur films are <i>The Bat Whispers, Billy the Kid</i> and <i>The Big Trail</i>.
First CinemaScope release was <i>The Robe</i>.
Answers:
Snow White was the first full length animation
Actually The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1925) is now thought to be the first animation feature, by all except Disney that is.
The first film in full colour when this means three-strip technicolor was Becky Sharp (1935)
There have been various experiments with widescreen dating back to the silent era, e.g. Napoleon. The first film to use Cinemascope however was The Robe (1953).
The Dates for the formation of the major film studios are as following
Columbia 1920
Fox 1915
Loew's/MGM 1910
Famous Players/Paramount 1912
RKO 1928
United Artists 1919
Universal 1912
Warner Bros 1923
So on this basis MGM wins as Loew's which became MGM in 1924 was formed in 1910. Of course there were Hollywood Studios prior to 1912, e.g. Keystone, but these are the formation dates for the what most people consider the major studios.
It is very difficult to determine what was the first feature length film for each company, because there is no obvious way to decide what a feature is. A four reel film is normally considered a feature, but there are occasions where two films of almost the same length are described differently. For example Keaton's Sherlock Junior (1924) is considered to be a feature while Chaplin's The Pilgrim (1923) is considered to be a short. The strange thing is that Sherlock Junior is actually shorter than The Pilgrim.
Pete George
Answers:
"What was the first film produced in colour? (I mean in full colour, not the tinting or adding of colour that used to happen with silents)"
...I suggest you visit the American Widescreen Museum - which, despite its rather misleading name, is not just about 'widescreen' processes, but also has interesting information about various <a href="http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/index.htm">colo(u)r processes</a>...
...oh... and with all due respect to the British and their loverly language,
Dr Kalmus' process was called (is called to this day, even in the UK!!!) "Technicolor" (not ...colour) (just as that sappy movie was called "Pearl Harbor", not "...Harbour")...
...and, btw, the Germans invented what is now called Agfacolor... first full-length feature made using that process was Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten (1936), followed six years later by Die goldene Stadt (1942), the no-expense-spared, all-star Münchhausen (1943), and the brilliantly photographed Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944), to name just a few...
...a few French movies of the 1950s and '60s were filmed using the Belgian Gevaert process....
...a great many contemporary French movies are filmed in the Japanese Fujicolor...
...the Russians, as everybody knows, actually invented colour photography, and - for a while - used their very own Sovcolor process (actually derived from Agfacolor), for instance in the color sequence of Ivan The Terrible, Part 2 (1945, immediately suppressed and re-premiered at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair), and the stunningly gorgeous (at least I remember it thusly, dimly, from long, so long ago) The Stone Flower (1946) (can't wait for the RUSCICO release of this gem!)...
...the Italians at one time had a process called Ferraniacolor, but I don't think they ever used it for feature-length films, only for shorts...
...and, I might add, the Americans did not use just Technicolor... there was also Cinecolor (a.k.a. 'the poor man's Technicolor'), later 'improved' to Super Cinecolor - think Abbott & Costello in Jack And The Beanstalk (1952), or Joan Crawford in the unforgettable Johnny Guitar (1953) in glorious Trucolor...
...in the 1950s Hollywood tried to get away from the iron grip of Technicolor, and experimented with Eastman Color for Deep In My Heart (1954), Ansco Color for Brigadoon (1954) ... and possibly, probably several other competing color film processes as well...
(signed) Insufferably Pedantic Sam
. . . :smokin: . . .
Answers:
Gary is correct in citing <b>The Robe</b> as the first film to be released in Cinemascope, but the first to be made in the process was <b>How To Marry A Millionaire</b>.
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