ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Technicolor, the color-movie colonize synonymous with Hollywood glamour, is donating filmmaking artifacts to George Eastman House to turn out the New York museum"s trove of strange reels of movie classics such as "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz."
The present of cameras, printers, photos, drawings and papers detailing the beautiful routine at the back of Technicolor movies constructed from World War I to 1974 solidifies the movie and photography museum"s standing as the world"s largest investigate establishment for film-technology scholars.
The French telecommunications and movie record company"s archives, kept in vaults in Los Angeles, competence have been junked if the notable relic hadn"t stepped in and discovered them, pronounced Caroline Frick Page, suit design curator for Eastman House.
The complete corporate pick up "makes it one of the majority singular pieces of movie story existent in repository for investigate today," she pronounced Friday.
Eastman House, situated in Kodak owner George Eastman"s 50-room Colonial Revival palace in Rochester, has been entertainment up valued photographs and drive-in theatre given 1947. The notable relic expects to sometime reconstruct a Technicolor movie set that competence additionally be incited in to a roving exhibition.
More than 6,600, pre-1951 movies prisoner on flighty nitrate movie are kept in frigid, low-humidity vaults owned by the museum. Cold storage saves them from rotting away, potentially for hundreds of years.
On the shelves are a little of the oldest flourishing negatives or prints dating to the emergence of relocating cinema in 1893. Among the 22,800 reels are 3,000 on Technicolor film, together with the strange camera negatives of "Gone with the Wind," "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "Little Women."
The perfected Technicolor system, that incited in to an industry customary commencement in 1927, typically compulsory scenes in drive-in theatre similar to "The Wizard of Oz" to be available concurrently in yellow, cyan and magenta.
With some-more than 30,000 movie titles, Eastman House is one of 4 vital U.S. motion-picture repository to one side the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Library of Congress and the University of California, Los Angeles. Among the treasures are the repository of filmmakers Cecil B. DeMille, Kathryn Bigelow, Spike Lee, Ken Burns and Martin Scorsese.
"Technicolor is to be commended for bargain the consequential significance of preserving the archive," Scorsese pronounced in a statement. Eastman House"s imagination in sketch and movie charge creates it "the undiluted place for this historically useful collection."
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