Travelogues: The Origins of Color in Cinema
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of the CCCB
Emerging at the end of the 19th century at the same time as many means of modern transport, such as the train, steamship, car and plane, the travelogue became a virtual vehicle for exploring the world. At a time when tourism was still elitist, these films made it possible to convey to common spectators the perceptive experience of travelling and the possibility of glimpsing unknown lands.
Filmed by expeditionaries, travelers and explorers, they contributed to the knowledge and understanding of different places as well as their inhabitants, while also offering visions of these locations that would stimulate the imagination of the spectators.
At first these films were shown in black and white until the use of color became more commonplace in 1909. This chromatic standardization was due not to a need for realism, but the need to capture the world as an image.This session at the CCCB presents a series of colored travelogues that transported early viewers to exotic, picturesque worlds, linking the very concept of travel to the images and their creation.
The films that contain sound will be subtitled in Catalan.
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