Contents

pp 5-8

Introduction

pp 9-18

Prologue: Questions of Colours: Taking Sides

pp 19-30

NONFICTION AND AMATEUR CINEMA

pp 31-32

1 - Fireworks and Carnivals: Applied and Natural Colours in Italian Home Movies

pp 33-50

2 - Liminal Perceptions: Intermediality and the Exhibition of Nonfiction Film

pp 51-74

3 - Rough Seas: The Blue Waters of Early Nonfiction Film

pp 75-94

NATURAL-COLOUR PROCESSES: THEORY AND PRACTICE

pp 95-96

4 - ‘Taking the color out of color’: Two-Colour Technicolor, The Black Pirate, and Blackened Dyes

pp 97-108

5 - Why Additive? Problems of Colour and Epistemological Networks in Early (Film) Technology

pp 109-124

6 - Ziegfeldized Slapstick, Useful Comedy: Mack Sennett’s Slapstick Comedies Under the Influence of Natural Colour

pp 125-144

7 - Kinemacolor and Kodak: The Enterprise of Colour

pp 145-160

INTERMEDIALITY AND ADVERTISING

pp 161-162

8 - Rainbow Ravine: Colour and Animated Advertising in Times Square

pp 163-178

9 - Kodachrome’s Hope: The Making and Promotion of McCall Colour Fashion News

pp 179-194

10 - Chromatic Objects: Colour Advertising and French Avant-garde Films of the 1920s

pp 195-218

ARCHIVING AND RESTORATION: EARLY DEBATES AND CURRENT PRACTICES

pp 219-220

11 - La Ligue du Noir et Blanc: French Debates on Natural Colour Film and Art Cinema 1926–1927

pp 221-236

12 - A Material-Based Approach to the Digitization of Early Film Colours

pp 237-260

Archival Panels (Edited Transcripts)

pp 261-278

Authors’ Biographies

pp 279-280

Bibliography

pp 281-300

Acknowledgements

pp 301-302

Index

pp 303-311