Restoration work at the Television Center, the Art Deco complex from the early thirties that takes up a whole city block between Santa Monica Boulevard and Romaine Street, at Cole, in the flats just south of Hollywood, but this wasn't always the Television Center. From 1930 to 1975 this was the Hollywood home of Technicolor. All the three-stripe Technicolor films were processed here, from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1938) to “The Godfather, Part II” (1974)...
more »Restoration work at the Television Center, the Art Deco complex from the early thirties that takes up a whole city block between Santa Monica Boulevard and Romaine Street, at Cole, in the flats just south of Hollywood, but this wasn't always the Television Center. From 1930 to 1975 this was the Hollywood home of Technicolor. All the three-stripe Technicolor films were processed here, from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1938) to “The Godfather, Part II” (1974) – the last American film to use the Technicolor dye process. The Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1915 by three scientists from the MIT – thus the “Tech” in the company’s name – but Technicolor is now a division of the French company Technicolor SA and housed in a big glass skyscraper up on Sunset Boulevard at Gower. This, however, is how things used to be. And no matter who occupies this space now, this is how things will be. ~ Friday, July 26, 2019
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