First Technicolor Animated Film
Frame enlargement of a technicolor segment from the phantom of the opera (1925).
First technicolor animated film. The first animated feature film is contested. An animation station built at the disney studios in the late 1920's and used for decades. The first animated feature film to be presented in technicolor.
Edward raymond turner's process, tested in 1902, was the first to capture full natural color on motion picture film, but it proved to be mechanically impractical. The film was one of the earliest uses of the process on interior sets, and demonstrated its versatility. Disney negotiated an exclusive contract with technicolor and all subsequent silly symphony.
And as all of you know, max fleischer was animation producer for paramount. There are no surviving copies of the movie in existence. In episodic animation, technicolor completed delivery of elena of avalor season 3 (disney),.
“flowers and trees,” one of disney’s silly symphonies series, while not the first animated film to be shot in some form of color, was a sensation with audiences and critics and won the academy award for best animated short subject that year. Technicolor’s mill film collaborated on one of this summer’s most charming big screen adventures, dora and the lost city of gold. Love me tonight by rouben mamoulian is credited as the first film to use a zoom lens.
While beginning production on two other animated features. The film was also the first to win the academy award for best animated short film. It was notable as the first flip the frog cartoon for mgm, and one of only two made in color.
It is generally thought to be an attraction today if a film does not have colour, and it influences many different readings of films. Technicolor had been shopping the process around to all of the majors, including paramount. Won a special academy award for the first animated feature.