[HN Gopher] What is Technicolor? (2021)
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       What is Technicolor? (2021)
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-06-09 08:06 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | isx726552 wrote:
       | The full blown three strip technicolor process with dye-transfer
       | prints was a true marvel. The picture it produced was absolutely
       | incredible for its age, and thanks to the stability of the eyes,
       | the prints retain their quality for decades. If you ever get a
       | chance to see a vintage dye transfer print projected in a cinema,
       | it's really something to see.
        
         | dcminter wrote:
         | > thanks to the stability of the eyes
         | 
         | Took me a few seconds to work out that this was a typo, not
         | some strange persistence-of-vision related effect!
        
       | aleph_minus_one wrote:
       | I would have thought that this text turns out to be about physics
       | beyond the standard model:
       | 
       | > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor_(physics)
        
       | Animats wrote:
       | Technicolor is one of those technologies where, with enough money
       | and determination, someone did something for which the technology
       | wasn't really ready.
       | 
       | Something similar happened with color TV.[1] Early color TV
       | cameras were as big as Technicolor cameras. Same 3-channel
       | concept, with a splitter prism, filters, and a camera tube for
       | each color. The camera tubes were image orthicons.[2] The whole
       | setup was insanely complicated, had hundreds of adjustment
       | potentiometers, and took hours to get set up and stable.
       | 
       | On the display side, the first good theater-scale projection TV
       | system was Eidiphor.[3] As with the cameras, the system was big,
       | complicated, expensive, and required three of everything.
       | Eidophor was developed in 1939, and nothing better came along
       | until the 1990s.
       | 
       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_TK-40/41
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       | [2]
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube#Image_orthic...
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       | [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor
        
         | RobotToaster wrote:
         | Reminds me of the complicated process needed to develop
         | kodachrome film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related. Others? Not much over the years...
       | 
       |  _How Technicolor created Ruby slippers without using color film_
       | - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071731 - Aug 2021 (47
       | comments)
       | 
       |  _"Technicolor for Industrial Films" 1940 Process Promotional
       | Film [video]_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25897711 -
       | Jan 2021 (1 comment)
       | 
       |  _Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000
       | Documents_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15133951 - Aug
       | 2017 (1 comment)
        
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