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Glorious Technicolor

Beginning in the 1930s, Technicolor movies were actually photographed on three strips of black-and-white negative film stock. What the camera lens sees is split by filters into cyan, yellow and magenta information. When the three film strips are combined in a lab, a full-color film print is produced.

(Photo: AP Photo/David Duprey)