#clarifying that ik wizard of oz wasnt the first technicolor film lmao

[sorcerers-pledge]

I went down the rabbit hole and realized Roger Corman was an insane person when he made The Masque of the Red Death.

Pathécolor? A dead color film process long before the 60s came around. Dead even before technicolor took off with Wizard of Oz. This means every individual frame has to be hand traced and stenciled for EACH COLOR and overlayed onto the film.

So let's take a 60 minute film. That equates to around 5,400 feet worth of 35mm film. At 24 frames per second, this gives you 86,400 frames. Which means some poor bastard had to trace EIGHTY SIX THOUSAND-FOUR HUNDRED FRAMES MULTIPLE TIMES for EACH COLOR.

The Masque of the Red Death is 90 minutes so that's 30 more minutes worth of frames.

I would have wished for death.