From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!mag Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: FP as the first color film - (nf) Article-I.D.: whuxlb.556 Posted: Sun Sep 12 13:35:00 1982 Received: Mon Sep 13 01:45:13 1982 References: uiucdcs.703 "Wizard of Oz" was NOT hand-colored. The scenes in Oz were filmed on Kodachrome at ASA 10, and processed by Technicolor, I think. It is not practical to hand color 7 million frames for a low-budget picture expected to have a limited appeal, as W. of O. was expected to. They were easily capable of color as a routine by 1935, as witness GWTW. W. of O. was made in 1939. The only frame-by-frame hand coloring I know of for a long photographic sequence was done to GWTW in the late 60s, and this was retouching, not original coloring. It looked BAD. Read the credits next time you catch W. of O. Mike Gray.