Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming) is one of the most famous Technicolor films. It is highly sophisticated both with regard to its color scheme and the subtle use of light and shadows.
Comparison of two prints: a safety print from the Academy Film Archive, and a 1940 nitrate print from the Library of Congress.
Credit: Images courtesy of the Academy Film Archive and Library of Congress. Photographs by Barbara Flueckiger.
Contemporary Reception:
Anonymous (1939): Gone With the Wind One of Industry’s Sensations. In: Boxoffice, 36,4, Dec., p. 16. View Quote
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Anonymous (1940): The Shadow Stage. A Review of the New Pictures. Gone With the Wind. In: Photoplay, LIV,2, Feb., on p. 62. View Quote
Flinn Sr., John C. (1939): Gone With the Wind. In: Variety, 19 December 1939. View Quote
Full text on the Variety website. View Link
Higgins, Scott (2007): Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow. Color Design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, on p. 172. View Quote
Kuhn, Irene (1937): Rainbow round the screen. In: Cinema Arts, 1,1, June 1937, pp. 28–32, on pp. 28–29. View Quote
Nugent, Frank S. (1939): The Screen in Review. David Selznick’s Gone With the Wind Has Its Long-Awaited Premiere at Astor and Capitol, Recalling Civil War and Plantation Days of South. Seen as Treating Book With Great Fidelity. In: The New York Times, 20 December 1939, p. 31. View Quote
Full text on The New York Times website. View Link
Weaver, William R. (1939): Showmen’s Reviews. Gone with the Wind. In: Motion Picture Herald, 137,11, Dec., p. 24. View Quote
Full text on the Media History Digital Library website. View Link
Selected Analyses:
Higgins, Scott (2007): Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow. Color Design in the 1930s. Austin: University of Texas Press, on pp. 9-10 View Quote and on pp. 174-207. View Quote
Lippert, Renate (1996): Rotlicht. Die Farbe Rot in Vom Winde Verweht und Marnie. In: Frauen und Film, 58–59, pp. 77–88, on pp. 78–82. (in German) View Quote
Taylor, Helen (2015): Gone with the Wind. London: Palgrave, on p. 35 and on p. 37 View Quote, on p. 40 and on p. 42 View Quote and on pp. 43–44. View Quote
Production Reports:
Basten, Fred E. (1980): Glorious Technicolor. The Movies’ Magic Rainbow. South Brunswick: Barnes, on pp. 98–99. View Quote
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Longer exposure. Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Longer exposure. Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Credit: Image courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Film: Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming). Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
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Gone with the Wind (USA 1939, Victor Fleming), nitrate print 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.