"The Color Film Crisis" Paul C. Spehr,
in American Film (Nov. 1979), Subscrip-
tion Service, P.O. Box 966, Farmingdale,
N.Y. 11737.
During the 1950s, Hollywood switched from Technicolor to Eastman Color (still in use today). The result has been new films that fade within a few years to an ugly purple and negatives that will be worthless within a lifetime.
Many of the films-e.g., The Wizard ofOz (1939),An American in Paris (1951)-printed by the old Technicolor method retain their...