Eastmancolor is a trade name used by
Eastman Kodak
The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak ) is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in analogue photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorpor ...
for a number of related film and processing technologies associated with color motion picture production and referring to George Eastman, founder of Kodak.
Eastmancolor, introduced in 1950, was one of the first widely successful "single-strip colour" processes, and eventually displaced the more cumbersome
Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films running through a special ...
. Eastmancolor was known by a variety of names such as
DeLuxe Color, Warnercolor,
Metrocolor,
Pathécolor, Columbiacolor, and others.
For more information on Eastmancolor, see
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Eastman Color Negative (ECN, ECN-1 and ECN-2), the photographic processing systems associated with Eastmancolor negative motion picture stock, and intermediate motion picture stocks (including interpositive and internegative stocks)
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Eastman Color Positive Eastman Color Positive (ECP) is a photographic processing system created by Kodak in the 1950s for the development of monopack color positive print for direct projection motion picture film stock. It is part of the Eastmancolor family of produc ...
(ECP, ECP-1 and ECP-2), the photographic processing systems associated with Eastmancolor positive print motion picture stock for direct projection
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Color motion picture film
Color motion picture film refers both to unexposed color photographic film in a format suitable for use in a motion picture camera, and to finished motion picture film, ready for use in a projector, which bears images in color.
The first color ...
, for background on Eastmancolor and other motion picture processes in general
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Eastman Kodak Fine Grain color negative films (1950 onwards), within the "List of motion picture film stocks" article
Examples of films that use Eastmancolor
The 1959 British satirical comedy film ''
The Mouse That Roared'' was filmed using the Eastmancolor process.
Eastmancolor became very popular in the
South Indian film industry during the early 1960s.
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Carson City
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'' - (Warnercolor) 1952
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Jigokumon
is a 1953 Japanese '' jidaigeki'' film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It tells the story of a samurai (Kazuo Hasegawa) who tries to marry a woman (Machiko Kyō) he rescues, only to discover that she is already married. Filmed using Eastmancol ...
'' - (Japan) 1953
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The High and the Mighty'' - (Warnercolor) 1954
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Oklahoma!
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'' - 1955
* ''
Rebel Without a Cause
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'' (Warnercolor) - 1955
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Foreign Intrigue'' 1956
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The Bolshoi Ballet
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'' - 1957
* ''Bayanihan'' - Filipino - 1959
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Peeping Tom
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- British'' - 1960
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Kandam Becha Kottu'' -
Malayalam
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- 1961
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The Human Pyramid ''- France/
Ivory Coast
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1961
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Mere Mehboob
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- -Urdu (India) - 1963
* ''
Amara Shilpi Jakkanna'' -
Telugu
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* Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India
*Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India
* Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language
** Telugu (Unicode block), a block of Telugu characters in Unicode
S ...
- 1964
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Kathalikka Neramillai'' -
Tamil - 1964
* ''
Karnan'' - Tamil 1964
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Padagotti
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'' - Tamil - 1964
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Amarashilpi Jakanachari'' -
Kannada
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- 1964
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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'' - French, 1964
* ''
Thene Manasulu'' - Telugu - 1965
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Chemmeen
''Chemmeen'' () is a 1965 Indian Malayalam-language romance film, based on the novel of the same name by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai. It was adapted into a screenplay by S. L. Puram Sadanandan, directed by Ramu Kariat, and produced by Babu I ...
'' - Malayalam - 1965
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Thiruvilaiyadal'' - Tamil - 1965
* ''
Aayirathil Oruvan'' - Tamil - 1965
* ''
Enga Veetu Pillai'' - Tamil - 1965
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Idhaya kamalam'' - Tamil - 1965
* ''
Le Bonheur'' - French, 1965
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Help!'' - British, 1965
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Anbe Vaa'' - Tamil 1966
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Teorema'' - Italian, 1968
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2001: A Space Odyssey'' - American/British, 1968
(Color credited as " Metrocolor")
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Macunaíma'' - Brazilian, 1969
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A Clockwork Orange'' - British/American, 1971
(Color credited as "Warnercolor")
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Piya Ka Ghar'' - Hindi, 1971
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To Fly!'' - United States, 1976 (
Eastman Color Negative)
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The NeverEnding Story'' - German/American, 1984
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' - Spanish, 1988
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Jurassic Park
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'' - American, 1993
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Lapitch the Little Shoemaker'' - Croatian, 1997
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