COLOUR IS AGE OLD.
The new process of natural colour, which is used for the first time on the screen in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine," with Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray and Henry Fonda, is far removed from invention. ' The technicolour process, which ie used in the picture, has been in various stages of development for the past 20 years. "Colour has held a fascination for humanity since before the dawn of history," reports the studio research department. "The first trace of the uso of colour by man has been found in a cave in Allamvia, Spain. Of the paleolithic era, the pictures on the wall of this cave are estimated to be 50,000 years old. "The first motion picture has been traced in China in 500 8.C., when some Chinese traders were marooned in a blizzard in the Yablonovic mountains. One of the members of that group made shadow pictures by cutting out figures from buffalo hides. "On May 20, 1895, the first coloured motion picture on film was shown to the public. It was hand tinted ahd only a few hundred feet in length."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)
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