Pathécolor , later renamed Pathéchrome , was an early mechanical stencil -based film tinting process for movies developed by Segundo de Chomón for Pathé in the early 20th century. Among the last feature films to use this process were the British revue film Elstree Calling (1930) and the Mexican film Robinson Crusoe (1954) by Spanish Surrealist Luis Buñuel .
7-415: Southwest Passage is a 1954 American Pathécolor Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Joanne Dru , Rod Cameron and John Ireland , who are determined to make a unique trek across the west, using camels as his beasts of burden. The picture was originally released in 3-D . With $ 20,000 in stolen gold, Clint McDonald, his girl Lilly and wounded brother Jeb head for the hills, just ahead of
14-530: A machine that applied the corresponding dye through the stencil. This operation was repeated using each of the different stencils and dyes in turn. The Pathécolor stencil process should not be confused with the later Pathécolor, Pathé Color and Color by Pathé (sometimes without the acute accent ) trade names seen in screen credits and advertising materials. Like Metrocolor, WarnerColor and Color by DeLuxe, these were simply rebrandings of Eastman Kodak 's Eastmancolor color negative film. This filmmaking article
21-423: A posse. Lilly goes to town to find a doctor for Jeb, then returns with the best she can find, Dr. Stanton, a drunken veterinarian. Clint becomes aware of a camel-led caravan being led by Edward Fitzpatrick Beale and decides to join it, taking Dr. Stanton's medical kit and pretending to be him. Lilly rides up later, claiming to be separated from a wagon train, but Jeb dies from his injuries. Mule skinner Matt Caroll
28-450: Is at odds with Clint from the beginning, becoming attracted to Lilly and suspicious of Clint's skill as a doctor. After scout Tall Tale is bitten by a gila monster and needs a limb amputated, Clint's true identity is revealed and Beale makes him leave. Carroll follows, after the gold, but Clint kills him. Clint repents to Beale by leading the caravan to water and helping fend off attacking Apache braves. He reunites with Lilly and vows to return
35-610: The gold. Parts of the film were shot in Johnson Canyon and Coral Pink Sand Dunes in Utah . This 1950s Western film–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to an American film of the 1950s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Path%C3%A9color However, the stencil process was not a color photography process and did not use color film stock . Like computer-based film colorization processes, it
42-412: Was a way of arbitrarily adding selected colors to films originally photographed and printed in black-and-white . Each frame of an extra print of the black-and-white film to be colored was rear-projected onto a sheet of frosted glass , as in rotoscoping . An operator used a blunt stylus to trace the outlines of areas of the projected image that were to be tinted one particular color. The stylus
49-419: Was connected to a reducing pantograph that caused a sharp blade to cut corresponding outlines through the actual film frame, creating the stencil for that color in that frame. This had to be done for each individual frame, and as many different stencil films had to be made as there were different colors to be added. Each of the final projection prints was matched up with one of the stencil films and run through
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