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3 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | N O V E M B E R / D E C E M B E R 2 0 2 5 N E W S Alchemy in Technicolor B Y D AV I D M O R O N G , E D I T O R A. ALCHEMY IN TECHNICOLOR COVER. B. ERROL FLYNN AS ROBIN HOOD. "The success of Technicolor dye transfer was the result of the closest possible coordination between Production Design and Art Direction with cinematography and the various laboratory processes employed. The same holds true with costume and makeup designs. Color was the nexus that brought those departments together." Author Robert Hoffman made this observation when introducing the idea that his new book, Alchemy in Technicolor, would be of particular interest to the readers of PERSPECTIVE. The book combines the history of color filmmaking, the science and chemistry of creating color images, and an album of over 150 beautifully reproduced images from the history of color celluloid and beyond. It offers a detailed history of the processes that made up the Technicolor revolution, and also reveals the work of the scientists and artists who made the process into a dominant force in filmmaking. As detailed as the book is in the technological innovations that made color film possible, it is the approach of the artists who used the process that is the heart of the story. B A