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- Colour Films in Britain charts 55 years of colour film production and exhibition, tracing technical developments as well as aesthetics, and incorporating this film technology within discourses about national character and artistic identity.
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Nov 13, 2012 · Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-1955 by Sarah Street is out now. Sarah Street’s new book Colour Films in Britain traces the history of colour filmmaking in the UK, from early pioneers to the glories of the 1940s and 1950s.
Colour Films in Britain is beautifully illustrated by stills from many important short and feature films and with detailed textual analyses of celebrated and lesser known films including The Open Road, The Glorious Adventure, Rainbow Dance, This Is Colour, Blithe Spirit, This Happy Breed, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes ...
Jul 25, 2019 · Using different colour processes, these innovators produced films that demonstrated remarkable experimentation and quality. Sarah Street's illuminating study is the first to trace the history...
- Sarah Street
- Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
- 1838715150, 9781838715151
Rooted in detailed primary research into aesthetics, production practices, technologies and institutions, Colour Films in Britain, provides a comprehensive and illuminating consideration of the adoption, diffusion and popularization of colour in British cinema from the mid-1950s.
Nov 9, 2012 · Twelve chapters examine a wide range of colour technologies, charting their development and analyzing key examples from popular cinema, documentaries and avant-garde films.
Nov 18, 2021 · Colour Films in Britain: The Eastmancolor Revolution. Sarah Street, Keith M. Johnston, Paul Frith, Carolyn Rickards. Bloomsbury Publishing, Nov 18, 2021 - Performing Arts - 400 pages....
How would audiences accustomed to seeing black-and-white films – which were commonly regarded as being superior to their garish colour counterparts – react? Yet despite this initial trepidation, colour captivated many British inventors and film-makers.
