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Kodachrome has been used for release printing of the occasional feature film, but more often
for shorts.
Kodachrome prints can be recognised by their
black sprocket area, with the film name printed
within that area. Also, it should be born in mind
that although Kodachrome has been used for
the occasional feature film release on 16mm,
it was also the film stock most often used for
copying color film, generally with poor results.

Kodachrome commercial prints and home
movies have very good color retention,
however, they sometimes suffer from having
very high contrast, this can sometimes result
in little or no detail in darker scenes.
Left: 16mm feature released on Kodachrome
stock - White Christmas (Paramount 1954).
Right 8mm Kodachrome home movie

POLACOLOR
The Polaroid Corporation developed a three-color 35mm motion
picture print film in the late 1940s. It was a dye coupler process that
produced full-color images in a single photographic emulsion. Prints
were made from color separation negatives. It was used for a few
cartoons and other short subjects before being discontinued. It is
therefore quite rare. All examples seen have a clear frame line.

CINECOLOR

From the 1930s to the 1950s, Cinecolor was the main competitor to
the better know Technicolor process. Cinecolor was a two color
process, and was a much cheaper alternative to three color
Technicolor.

Because of the economies offered, Cinecolor was the preferred color
process of many of the smaller production companies, although
MGM and Paramount used it for short subjects and cartoons at times
.
Early MGM color cartoons used Cinecolor, as Disney had struck an
exclusive deal with Technicolor for his animated films in the early
Right: A number of the series “Unusual Occupations” were
produced in Cinecolor from the 1930s to the late 1940s.