The 1914 film The World, The Flesh and The Devil is actually the first color feature-length film, which preceded The Wizard of Oz by 25 years.
The Big Picture The use of color in film has a longer history than you would think. Early endeavors in making color films involved hand painting on the film, like rare prints of the iconic Trip to the Moon. It was still a long time until the well-known, inventive technicolor process took over and gave filmmakers an easier way to full-color filmmaking. Before this though, there were still color films. Determining the first depends on what parameters are set.
The first film to be credited with natural color is the aforementioned 1908 A Visit to the Seaside. This was achieved with the Kinemacolor process, which generally used red and green alternating filters. The result was some color, but early tests showed its restrictions. Using only red and green, other colors like blue were missing. In later processes, blue was added to the filters to achieve a rudimentary color effect. Still, this did not achieve the full-color spectrum.
'The World, The Flesh and the Devil' Is a Lost Film As mentioned, the first full-length color film has been lost to time. In our age where almost everything is available at our fingertips, it seems such an odd thing to happen to film. But early cinema was different. There were no ways of watching a film at home, no copies that would go to customers mere months after showing in theaters. No, movies would show in theaters, and then they would be gone.
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