The Mostly Color Channel
Musings — mostly about color art, science, and technology
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Panchromatic Joan
The Passion of Joan of Arc
was produced in 1928. It was made with
panchromatic film
. Some viewers have found themselves "
enthralled in the drama of an 82-year-old creation
". I was impressed with the film but was also struck by the tonal expressiveness of the close-ups of Joan.
A quick check of figure 13.4 of
The manual of photography: photographic and digital imaging
By R. E. Jacobson and it's clear that these monochrome flesh tones probably do differ from earlier black and white and subsequent color renderings.
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