First Technicolor Animated Film. Actors moving on a soundstage presented a new challenge altogether, as became evident in the first three. Technicolor’s mpc film also provided vfx for dora, in collaboration with mill film and the filmmaking team.
It was the most widely used colour process in hollywood from 1922 to 1952 and celebrated for its saturated levels of colour. The film was also the first to win the academy award for best animated short film. An animation station built at the disney studios in the late 1920's and used for decades.
Elton john, andrew lloyd weber and tim rice are working on an animated version of “joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat” for stx.
Actors moving on a soundstage presented a new challenge altogether, as became evident in the first three. “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. A look back at the gulf between, a fascinating but doomed moviemaking experiment that pushed the boundaries of tech. Snow white wasn’t the first technicolor film, but it’s largely synonymous with the company’s foray into the limelight.