This is the first book-length study of the beginnings of colour cinema. It traces the legacy of colour history from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the cinema of the early twentieth century and explores the implications of this genealogy on experimental and contemporary digital cinemas.

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Paolo Cherchi Usai
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1 The Colors of Modernity
2 Hand Coloring anf the Intermediality of Cinema
3 Transforming and Uplift: Stenciling, Tinting, and Toning
4 Color Cinema, fromGentility to Abstraction
Conclusion

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index