Mystery of the Wax Museum '1933
DP: Ray Rennahan
Dir: Michael Curtiz
Oh they very much were. The first movies in the late 1800s were all black and white. This is simply an early and rare example of a film utilising the two-strip technicolor method which by utilizing two separate lengths black and white film being simultaneously exposed, one through a red filter and one through a green filter could approximate colour. This method was however completely unable to showcase blue tones and was also expensive and complicated. Full colour pictures would later follow in the late 30s with the invention of the three-strip technicolor process famously used in movies like The Wizard of Oz.
