Video Explores The History of Technicolor and How It Was Really Black and White

Here’s an interesting video that explores the history of Technicolor in the 1930s and how it was really black and white and the vibrant colors were an “illusion to trick your eyes into seeing something that isn’t really there.”

The video uses The Wizard of Oz as an example and this is some seriously fascinating insight that I wasn’t familiar with before.

NationSquid explains how Technicolor created the illusion of color using a prism to split red, green, and blue images onto three black and white film strips and then developed them with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black dyes.

The whole thing is crazy mad science! It’s much more interesting watching the video and having it all explained to you, so check it out!