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Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.They produced the Life of Christ in 1910, an example 'still' of which is above.Īs late as the 1920s, hand coloring processes were used for individual shots in Greed (1924) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (both utilizing the Handschiegl Color Process) and rarely, an entire feature-length movie such as The Last Days of Pompeii (1926) and Cyrano de Bergerac (1925), with color by Pathé's stencil process Pathéchrome. Pathé had 100 young women at its factory at Vincennes who were employed as colorists. The distinctive use of color in VoyagoSome prints of the popular Edison film The Great Train Robbery (1903) had selected hand-colored scenes. Méliès experimented with color in his film biography of Joan of Arc (1900), leading to a more spectacular use of color in his 1903 Trip to the Moon, made available to modern viewers only after the 2012 release of a restoration of the film by Lobster Films. Hand coloring was often used in early 'trick' and fantasy films from Europe, especially those by Georges Méliès. In it, Annabelle Moore, a young dancer from Broadway, is dressed in white veils that appear to change colors as she dances. The first hand tinted movie was Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895), from Edison Studios. Because orthochromatic film stock could not be used in low-light situations, blue became the most popular tint, applied to scenes shot during the day and when projected, signified night.Ī variation of film tinting is hand coloring, in which only parts of the image are colored by hand with dyes, sometimes using a stencil cut from a second print of the film to save keep colouring the same piece on different frames. Both the Edison Studios and the Biograph Company began tinting their films for setting moods. The discovery of bleaching methods by pirates soon put an end to this. The film was tinted amber, the color of the safelight on film printers. The process began in the 1890s, originally as a copy-guard against film pirates.

Tinting was used for this sequence to make his cloak red. This is how audiences in 1925 would have seen it.

The phantom of the opera 1925