The Biggest Lie in Hollywood | Technicolor

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[Dwarvenminer]

I don't really see where the lie is with this, it gives the energy of a redditor smugly claiming you're wrong about something based on a technicality that doesnt really affect the end result?
"Ah, but you see! The film was actually 3 different colours laid ontop one another to give the impression of actual colour!"
Yeah, wait until you find out it was also multiple pictures a second to give the impression of motion and not actually a moving picture...

[GranMaese]

What if I told you the cake is a lie.... is only eggs and milk mixed and beaked together.

[RichardServello]

This is a really weird way to describe it, it’s not a trick. It is color. When you print color film you print it in 3 stages in the same way. This is chemistry, not trickery.

[blizzardjesus]

TLDR: Hipster learns how color is made and thinks it's a big scam.

[Derpy]

But we’re not being tricked at all. The final film IS in color. Just because the way it was created required jumping through some hoops doesn’t mean we’re being tricked. It’s just a process.

[cletle]

"uhm akchually, the video you are watching right now is also a lie, since the cmos sensor in the camera uses a colour filter array to trick your eyes into seeing colour"

[atlanta]

I think the big irony is that sound is way more important than footage. If you watch a movie that has the best possible 4K material but has crappy audio, you'll be put off fast. But take low quality footage (if what you see is interesting) and blend it with top notch audio engineered sound... now that'll fly.

[SoloPilot]

I'm 65, and been around the film industry off and on for over 50 years. I have NEVER heard ANY rumor that "The Wizard of Oz" had been hand-painted, until seeing this video.

[stpnlll]

If the OP is confused by the "trickery" of technicolor film, wait til he finds out how complex human vision itself is.

[CATLITmusic]

Color film is actually individual RGB layers? Say it ain't so! Next you're gonna tell me that the motion picture itself is just a series of still images displayed sequentially at a high enough rate for persistence of vision to create the illusion of movement.

[jameysummers]

That's the internet today. Calling everything you know into question and being wrong at the same time. Challenging everything that you learned, strutting around like you know something, and being wrong. All with ads.

[mattd]

Honestly, we were tricked into watching this video.

[taylorwoolston]

Calling this "black & white" is kinda like calling a fully coloured-in colouring book "black & white". Just because the original material was black & white, doesn't mean the final result is black & white.

[edamael]

Imagine making a 26-minute video to tell people you don't understand how colour works.

[boilerhousegarage]

A ship full of red paint crashed into a ship full of blue paint. Both crews have been marooned!

[Tbone]

Cyan, yellow, and magenta are the subtractive primary colors, not red, green, and blue.

[kyleolson]

"You were probably told growing up that The Wizard of Oz was hand-painted, frame by frame"
No. We were almost certainly not. Maybe you were also told the moon was made of cheese?

[mchristi]

"By 1954, a company called Eastmancolor..." Except Eastmancolor isn't a company it's a trade name for a film stock and process for color motion pictures. The company who made it is Kodak. The name is a reference to Kodak's founder, George Eastman. And the process was actually introduced in 1950.

[haandotexe]

I've never heard the rumor that the wizard of oz was hand-painted and that concept sounds ridiculous to me. how could anyone actually believe that???