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Arts feature

How Technicolor came to dominate cinema

12 November 2015

3:00 PM

12 November 2015

3:00 PM

They’ve already found a cure for the common cold. It’s called Technicolor. My first dose of it came during the Christmas holidays when I was about 12. There I was, ailing and miserable, when The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) came on the television at the end of my bed.

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