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Liz Watkins, University of Leeds. contact: e.i.watkins@leeds.ac.uk 'Threads of Colour and Meaning in the Film Work of Nicolas Roeg and Anthony Richmond', Guest blog for the Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema 1955-1985.... more
This story of a girl who dances in a cursed pair of red shoes until she dies parallels Vicky’s own ambitions as a dancer, as well as the decisions she must face between her love for Julian and her success at the ballet company. Powell and... more
This essay aims to understand the relations between Stanley Cavell’s theoretical generalities regarding the medium of film and his readings of individual films, with a particular focus on his writing on color in his book The World Viewed.... more
Program note for 2014 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
The invention of motion pictures was only possible due to the prior discovery of the phenomenon of persistence of vision, the prior invention of photography and the ability to produce photographs with very brief exposure times. These... more
Se hace un análisis de la película predecesora de "La seducción" de Sofía Coppola, de Don Siegel, con Clint Eastwood, en la que se estrena como actor de carácter y Geraldine Page, donde se muestra una tragedia a puerta cerrada, donde el... more
Winner of the 2016 Henry Allen Moe Prize for Catalogs of Distinction in the Arts from the New York State Historical Association. Winner of the Theatre Library Association's 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award. In "The Dawn of... more
Program note for 2012 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
We summarize basic features associated to dynamical breaking of the electroweak symmetry. The knowledge of the phase diagram of strongly coupled theories as function of the number of colors, flavors and matter representation plays a... more
Program note for 2014 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
Program note for 2012 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
September 2015. Down Argentine Way (1940). National Film Registry. Library of Congress. An article about the historical and cultural significance of the film and why it was selected to the National Film Registry in 2014.
Commentary on the 1942 Technicolor short film This Is Colour and its restoration. Written in promotion of its premiere screening.
Program note for 2014 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
Program note for 2014 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
∗ Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1130, USA Department of Mathematical Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, POB 17551, UAE Department of Mathematics, Ain Shams University, 11566, Cairo, Egypt and § Physics... more
Colour in Context Symposium. 11:00-18:00 Friday 23rd March 2018. University of Bristol. Key note speaker: Professor Lynda Nead, Birkbeck. ‘Greyscale and Colour: the Hues of Nation and Empire c.1945-60.' The symposium examines colour –... more
Charla dictada por mí en El Café con Notas do Ateneo Mar de Arousa, el día 4 de octubre, como parte de un grupo de apreciación musical, donde quise mostrar el uso inicial que hizo Walt Disney del cine sonoro, que había inaugurado en 1927,... more
Program note for 2014 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
The Dawn of Technicolor is the first detailed history of Technicolor's formative years. Authors James Layton and David Pierce recount the first two decades of one of the most widely recognized names in the American film industry,... more
The invention of motion pictures was only possible due to the prior discovery of the phenomenon of persistence of vision, the prior invention of photography and the ability to produce photographs with very brief exposure times. These... more
‘Views on Colour: Finding the Filmmakers, Technicians and Archivists’, Sarah Street, Liz Watkins, Carolyn Rickards and Paul Frith, International Association for Media and History. posted: 14th January 2020.... more
Fighting to remain relevant after the demise of three-strip color photography, Technicolor entered the widescreen market with its own process. In 1957, it launched the large-format Technirama widescreen system in which the film was run... more
Technicolor’s superior dye-transfer printing process was its greatest legacy. Introduced for two-color printing in 1926, it was adapted for three-color in the 1930s and remained in use in the United States until the mid-1970s. This video... more
Program note for 2014 Pordenone Silent Film Festival.
The possibility of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking by strong coupling gauge interaction in models with D-branes in String Theory is examined. Instead of elementary scalar Higgs doublet fields, the gauge symmetry with strong... more
Review of the Berlinale Retrospective "Glorious Technicolor", February 2015
This website celebrates 100 years of Technicolor through highlights from related collections at George Eastman House. It presents an accessible introduction to the technology, people, and films at the heart of the company’s success... more
Technicolor and Hollywood film in the 1950s. Case study: Marilyn Monroe and the star system.
Color cinematography has ignited debates about how color should be used, and what color aesthetics can add to cinema. While Technicolor's aesthetics required painstakingly designed artificial lighting to achieve naturalist effects,... more