Pathécolor
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Pathécolor is an early color motion picture process developed by the French company Pathé, known for its hand-coloring and stencil-based techniques used in the early 20th century.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
color motion picture process
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early film color process ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Pathé Color
NERFINISHED
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Pathé stencil color NERFINISHED ⓘ Pathéchrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliedTo | 35 mm film prints ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French silent cinema
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early film hand-coloring traditions ⓘ |
| colorApplicationMethod |
mechanized stencil printing on film
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stencils cut for each color area ⓘ |
| colorSource | aniline dyes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| developer | Pathé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
hand-tinting without stencils
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natural color photographic processes like Kinemacolor ⓘ |
| era | silent film era ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
helped popularize color in motion pictures
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one of the most commercially successful early color systems ⓘ |
| influenced | later stencil and mechanical coloring techniques ⓘ |
| limitations |
labor-intensive production
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restricted number of colors per frame ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture film ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
application of dyes through cut stencils
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frame-by-frame color application ⓘ hand-coloring of film frames ⓘ stencil-based coloring technique ⓘ |
| operator | Pathé Frères NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| periodOfUse |
early 1900s
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first decades of the 20th century ⓘ |
| purpose | to add color effects to black-and-white cinematography ⓘ |
| regionOfPopularity |
Europe
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international film markets through Pathé distribution ⓘ |
| supersededBy |
photographic color film processes
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two-color and three-color systems like Technicolor ⓘ |
| technologyType |
additive color process by hand application
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stencil color process ⓘ |
| typicalColors | strong, stylized color areas ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Pathé production studios
NERFINISHED
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other distributors licensing Pathécolor prints ⓘ |
| usedFor |
colorizing black-and-white film prints
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fairy-tale films ⓘ newsreels ⓘ travelogues ⓘ |
| usedIn |
early 20th-century cinema
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silent films ⓘ |
| visualEffect | decorative, non-naturalistic color schemes ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)