So, today on the podcast, we finish up our three-part story about Walt Disney and the advent of color in film.

Full-color movies weren't introduced through major studios such as Warner Brothers or MGM, nor would they first introduce through popular live-action features.

Full color finally came to the big screen through Disney

animation. And for years, Disney animation would be the only type of film where the public would

see full color up there on screen. For three years, color cartoons would open for black and white features from major studios.

And this is where we pick up our story today.

After developing four distinct color processes over nearly two decades,

inventor Herbert Kalmas finally brought his new Technicolor offerings to Disney

with the hope that Walt might help bring color movies to the world.

And so, if you're ready for the final part of this story and to explore how animation

changed the way the world saw films.

Let's go.

Early in 1932, Herbert Kalmiss invited Walt Disney to his office to review the new three-strip process, which

allowed for a full range of colors to appear on screen.

The new Technicolor camera was arranged so that a prism divided light passing through the

lens into three paths, through three different colored filters to create three colored

records on three strips of black and white film at the same time.

In 1932, three records were the only way to create through a lengthy process, a full color image for a moving screen.

The three color records were used to create three matrices that then with a dye

process could be used to build up a full color positive print that could be shown on the screen.

But there was an added benefit to this process particularly for animation.

The three records allowed the processing department to manipulate the colors after the film had been finished.

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