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Frith, Paul 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-5088 and Johnston, Keith M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1989-8549
(2020)
Talking Colour: Rememering the Eastmancolor Revolution.
Frames Cinema Journal (17).
ISSN 2053-8812
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Abstract
This video essay is a response to the journal’s call for work that considers the intersection of ideology, technology and aesthetic histories. The essay explores the story of Eastmancolor in Britain by contrasting and comparing the experiences of three areas of industry work affected by Eastmancolor film stock: cinematographers, laboratory staff, and archivists. The discourse that emerges from the interplay of these interviews shows how films and practices were affected when Eastmancolor offered a challenge to the prevailing principles of restraint and realism within British cinema. Specifically, the essay considers the industrial and aesthetic politics that emerged when Eastmancolor began to challenge the Technicolor monopoly; the efforts of cinematographers, directors and laboratories to explore and control the aesthetic opportunities this new film stock offered; and the digital technologies being utilised to unlock the now-faded status of many of those Eastmancolor productions. From industry politics and aesthetic challenges to ethical debates around the use of digital tools to produce an ‘authentic’ chromatic record and claims of ownership of the ‘accurate’ version of a film, the essay uses the voices of industry workers to offer a different and potent perspective on colour as a disruptive force within British national cinema. This videographic work was produced as part of the AHRC-funded project ‘The Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema, 1955-85’.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | british cinema,eastmancolor,colour cinema,laboratory,film archive,cinematography,visual arts and performing arts ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1213 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > British Cinema & Television |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2020 00:02 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2024 01:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75489 |
| DOI: | 10.15664/fcj.v0i17.2077 |
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