Thomson Color
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Credit: Cinémathèque française, conservatoire des techniques, Paris. Film: Test for Jour de Fête.
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Principle of capturing and projecting lenticular film. Credit: Joakim Reuteler and Rudolf Gschwind, Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel, Switzerland. Illustration by Sarah Steinbacher, Multimedia & E-Learning-Services, University of Zurich.
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Principle of capturing and projecting lenticular film. Credit: Joakim Reuteler and Rudolf Gschwind, Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel, Switzerland. Illustration by Sarah Steinbacher, Multimedia & E-Learning-Services, University of Zurich.
Original Technical Papers and Primary Sources
Orain, Fred (1947): Un nouveau procédé français de film en couleurs profite d’un Jour de fête pour faire ses «vrais» débuts au cinéma. In: L’Ecran français, mai 1947.
Secondary Sources
Andrew, Dudley (1980): The Post-War Struggle for Colour. In: Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price (eds.): Color. The Film Reader. New York: Routledge, 2006, pp. 40-50, on pp. 42-43. View Quote
Cornwell-Clyne, Adrian (1951): Colour Cinematography. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 28, 508. View Quote
Ede, François (1994): Jour de fête ou la couleur retrouvée. Cahiers du Cinéma: Paris, on p. 36 View Quote and on p. 44. (in French) View Quote
Giuliani, Luca (2002): I colori di Jour de fete di Jacques Tati. Fra anticipazioni stilistiche e ritardi tecnologici. In: Giorgio Placereani and Fabiano Rosso (eds.): Il gesto sonoro. Il cinema di Jacques Tati. Milano: Il Castoro, pp 1–8, on p. 2. (in Italian) View Quote
Limbacher (1969): Four Aspects of the Film. A History of the Development of Color, Sound, 3-D and Widescreen Films and Their Contribution to the Art of the Motion Picture. New York: Brussel & Brussel 1969, p. 54. View Quote
Pinel, Vincent (1992): La forêt des techniques. In: Michel Ciment (ed.): Ciné mémoire. Colloque international d’information (7-9 octobre 1991). Paris: Femis, pp. 17–24, on pp. 20–21. (in French) View Quote
Films
Jour de fête (FRA 1949, Jacques Tati)1, 2, 3
1 Pinel, Vincent (1992): La forêt des techniques. In: Michel Ciment (ed.): Ciné mémoire. Colloque international d’information (7-9 octobre 1991). Paris: Femis, pp. 17–24, on p. 21. (in French) View Quote
2 Ede, François (s.a.): Jour de fête en couleurs. Ou l’art du puzzle. In: Yann Tobin (1992): Dossier. La couleur du cinéma. In:Positif, 375–376, May, pp. 121–158, on pp. 135–137. (in French) View Quote
3 Giuliani, Luca (2002): I colori di Jour de fete di Jacques Tati. Fra anticipazioni stilistiche e ritardi tecnologici. In: Giorgio Placereani and Fabiano Rosso (eds.): Il gesto sonoro. Il cinema di Jacques Tati. Milano: Il Castoro, pp. 1–8. (in Italian) View Quote
Downloads
Patents
E.P. 384,275 (The British Thomson-Houston Company Limited; filed Feb. 19, 1931; not granted)
Download PDFE.P. 489,355 (Compagnie Française pour l’Exploitation des Procédés Thomson-Houston; filed Oct. 19, 1936; not granted)
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Restoration
Ede, François (1992): Jour de fête en couleurs. Ou l’art du puzzle. In: Yann Tobin (1992): Dossier. La couleur du cinéma. In: Positif, 375–376, May, pp. 121–158, on pp. 135–137. (in French) View Quote
Giuliani, Luca (2002): I colori di Jour de fete di Jacques Tati. Fra anticipazioni stilistiche e ritardi tecnologici. In: Giorgio Placereani and Fabiano Rosso (eds.): Il gesto sonoro. Il cinema di Jacques Tati. Milano: Il Castoro, pp. 1–8, on pp. 1–3 and on p. 8. (in Italian) View Quote
Selected Analyses
Jour De Fête (FRA 1949, Jacques Tati):
Giuliani, Luca (2002): I colori di Jour de fete di Jacques Tati. Fra anticipazioni stilistiche e ritardi tecnologici. In: Giorgio Placereani and Fabiano Rosso (eds.): Il gesto sonoro. Il cinema di Jacques Tati. Milano: Il Castoro, pp. 1–8. (in Italian) View Quote
