A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon "Color By Technicolor" (1952-1954) [With Red Borders] Tonya Tarpkins Bennett 765 subscribers Subscribe. Technicolor Laboratories were still able to produce Technicolor prints by creating three black-and-white matrices from the Eastmancolor negative (Process 5). Process 4 was the second major color process, after Britain's Kinemacolor (used between 1909 and 1915), and the most widely used color process in Hollywood during the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Walt had wanted to move into producing cartoons in color and now he had the opportunity since United Artists was willing to share in the cost. However, Walt proceeded with caution and only asked to make one cartoon in Technicolor to see how it would be received by audiences. He agreed to produce a cartoon with Technicolor, and in 1932 released Flowers and Trees, the very first full color cartoon.
Flowers and Trees was an instant sensation, and won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. In connection with the requirements of his everyday work in the animated cartoon field, Disney summed up technicolor by describing it simply as "an ideal commercial product." "It gives us everything we paint," said the Wizard of Wonderland, "and that's all any artist can ask.". Disney wins Oscar for the film, and Technicolor received a special citation for their efforts The first filmmaker to employ Technicolor's new process number 4 was Walt Disney on his first color animated short, Flowers and Trees.
Technicolor is a series of motion picture film color printing process that the first 2-strip version came out in 1916. It was a major favorite in every film studio. The more notable 3-strip version came out in 1932.
Disney had used this process from 1932 to 1935, and had an exclusive contract to use the 3. Technicolor Walt Disney had the foresight to sign an exclusive two-year contract for the use of Technicolor's new three-color process in cartoons, and he first used it in Flowers and Trees (1932). For the first time it brought full color to cartoons.
The first Mickey Mouse cartoon in color was The Band Concert (1935). See also Color. Adding Color Proves to Be Much More Difficult Than Anticipated As historian Michael Barrier writes, "Flowers and Trees was the first film anyone made in three-strip Technicolor, although Disney had begun making it as a black-and-white cartoon; he ordered the change to color after the cartoon had already been shot.".
Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation brought in their own cameras, technicians, makeup, and color director in order to guarantee a quality color outcome for a given film. about Technicolor's origins and its role in creating some of Hollywood's biggest cinematic classics in this Slice of MIT podcast.