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Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

Timeline of Events

1922

11.26.1922

''Toll of the Sea'' debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (''The Gulf Between'' was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

1932

7.30.1932

Premiere of Walt Disney's ''Flowers and Trees'', the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

1939

6.12.1939

Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' ''Dr. Cyclops'', the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.