What's the first color movie?

Answer 1

"Cupid Angling." 1918

Not "The Wizard of Oz," not "Gone with the Wind."

You can go back further to see hand tinted movies in the early 1900s.

Answer 2

Nobody knows what the first color movie was.
I provide this fact in order to save time for the
hundreds of people that do searches to find this
information.
It was definitely NOT The Wizard of Oz.

To satisfy the record we jump forward to 1918 when inventor Leon Forrest Douglass filmed 'Cupid Angling' in 'Naturalcolor', a process he invented.

'Cupid Angling' is considered to be the world's first full length color movie.

Answer 3

Color motion pictures appeared almost from the very beginning. Thomas Edison experimented with a hand–tinting process, similar to that used for stereopticon slides, on some of his Kinetoscope films, and a tinted print of Annabelle Whitford's "Serpentine Dance" (1895) exists. When Edison's first projector, the vitascope, had its commercial debut on April 23, 1896, two of the six scenes projected on the screen were in color.

Some early films were partially hand–tinted to highlight a scene or object – the color of a dress, the flames of a fire. A print of "The Great Train Robbery" (1903) survives with hand–tinting throughout, though only of specific elements in each scene. As early as 1905 the French Pathé company had begun to replace hand–tinting of individual film frames with tinting machines through which entire segments or scenes could be passed to give them a "mood" coloring of a single shade – red for fires, blue for night, yellow for daytime exteriors. In America hand–tinting was eventually replaced by the Handschiegl process. This process was developed by Max Handschiegl, an engraver who had perfected a means of dye–transfer coloring of release prints, otherwise known as imbibition. Using his knowledge of printing inks and engraving technology, Handschiegl prepared as many as three printing matrices to achieve a desired color. Beginning in 1917, he worked on such films as "Joan the Woman" (1917), "Greed" (1925), "Phantom of the Opera" (1925), and "The Big Parade" (1925).

Answer 4

It may have been The Wizard Of Oz, or Gone With The Wind. Both 1939 productions.

Answer 5

The Wizard of Oz was the first one but they colored it after it was made. I don't know what the first real colored movie was.

Answer 6

Wizard of Oz?

Answer 7

"Cupid Angling" by Leon Douglass and starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.

Answer 8

wizard of oz