The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema (Framing Film)

Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled "Disorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film," scholarly and archival interest in colour as a crucial aspect of film form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In the spirit of the workshop, this anthology brings together international experts to explore a diverse range of themes that they hope will inspire the next twenty years of research on colour in silent film. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Prologue. Questions of Colours: Taking Sides NONFICTION AND AMATEUR CINEMA 1. Fireworks and Carnivals: Applied and Natural Colours in Italian Home Movies 2. Liminal Perceptions: Intermediality and the Exhibition of Nonfiction Film 3. Rough Seas: The Blue Waters of Early Nonfiction Film NATURAL-COLOUR PROCESSES: THEORY AND PRACTICE 4. ‘Taking the color out of color’: Two-Colour Technicolor, The Black Pirate, and Blackened Dyes 5. Why Additive? Problems of Colour and Epistemological Networks in Early (Film) Technology 6. Ziegfeldized Slapstick, Useful Comedy: Mack Sennett’s Slapstick Comedies under the Influence of Natural Colour 7. Kinemacolor and Kodak: The Enterprise of Colour INTERMEDIALITY AND ADVERTISING 8. Rainbow Ravine: Colour and Animated Advertising in Times Square 9. Kodachrome’s Hope: The Making and Promotion of McCall Colour Fashion News 10. Chromatic Objects: Colour Advertising and French Avant-garde Films of the 1920s ARCHIVING AND RESTORATION: EARLY DEBATES AND CURRENT PRACTICES 11. La Ligue du Noir et Blanc: French Debates on Natural Colour Film and Art Cinema 1926–1927 12. A Material-Based Approach to the Digitization of Early Film Colours ARCHIVAL PANELS (EDITED TRANSCRIPTS) Preservation, Restoration, Presentation, and Policy Digital Restoration AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INDEX Sparked by a groundbreaking Amsterdam workshop titled ŸDisorderly Order: Colours in Silent Film,Œ scholarly and archival interest incolour as a crucial aspect of film form, technology and aesthetics has enjoyed a resurgence in the past twenty years. In the spirit of the workshop, this anthology brings together international experts to explore a diverse range of themes that they hope will inspire the next twenty years of research on colour in silent film. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.

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