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Originally Posted by Festered
There seems to be a lot of debate as to when true color came to movies. Some trace it back as far as 1908. Seems nobody really does know what the first might be. Apparently, it really didn't catch on with audiences after Mystery, either, and didn't get popular til Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind.
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Some early silent films were in fact hand painted frame by frame. Sometimes only part of the frame was painted, or only a portion of the movie.
Sometimes, scenes were tinted. For example, if there was a fire, the whole scene would be tinted red.
Didn't the Phantom of the Opera (1925) have a short colour sequence for the masquerade ball?
But this was all really novelty until a practical way of producing realistic colour was developed.