Gasparcolor

{{Short description|Color motion picture film system}}

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| founder = Béla Gáspár

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Gasparcolor was a color motion picture film system, developed in Berlin in 1933 by the Hungarian chemist Béla Gáspár, (Oraviczabánya, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary 1898–1973). It used a subtractive 3-color process on a single film strip, one of the earliest to do so.{{cite web|url=https://filmcolors.org/timeline-entry/1264/|title=Gasparcolor |publisher=Filmcolors.org}}

During the 1930s and 1940s, it was used primarily in animation, notably by Oskar Fischinger{{cite web|url=http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger/Moritz_GasparColor.htm |title=Gasparcolor: Perfect Hues for Animation|publisher=CVM}} (Muratti Gets in the Act, 1934; Composition in Blue, 1935), Len Lye (Birth of a Robot,{{cite web|url=http://www.lenlyefoundation.com/films/23/|title=The Birth of the Robot, 1936|publisher=The Len Lye Foundation}} Rainbow Dance,{{cite web|url=http://www.lenlyefoundation.com/films/24/|title=Rainbow Dance, 1936|publisher=The Len Lye Foundation}} both 1936), and George Pal. It also saw use in live-action film, including "Colour on the Thames" (1935).{{IMDb title|qid=Q123597348|title=Colour on the Thames}}

William Moritz’s article, from his lecture at the Louvre, Paris, gives more detail about this history of this color process. Because of the darkening political climate in Europe, his Hungarian-Jewish wife Elly Tardos-Taussig (Szeged 1908-) died by suicide; Gaspar eventually moved to Hollywood and sold his patents to Technicolor and 3M.