7298 – Multicolor LUTs

Multicolor LUTs

Brought to you by the Hughes Development Co. of sunny Los Angeles, California.

Sample image of fsorvin Multicolor — *No LUT (above) vs Multicolor LUT (below)*

This LUT set simulates Multicolor's subtractive 2-colour process, from 1928 to 1932 and comes in two print variations: Multicolor Dyes and Technicolor III IB process.

Multicolor produces imperfect and beautiful red and blue depictions of the world. Skies go Prussian Blue, reds go orange and skin tones glow – much like the look of a mid-2000's action film.

Koshofer 72 Multicolor SteppingAhead 1930 IMG 0195 — *Multicolor, two-color, possibly Stepping Ahead (Anonymous, USA 1930). Credit: Gert Koshofer Collection. Sample No. 72. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger, from filmcolors.org*

Technicolor II and III may have dominated the market, but Multicolor was the simple and cheap alternative. Using a simpler bipack camera capture and a simpler dye process Multicolor tried and failed as an enterprise over it's short operating run, but their equipment was bought by Cinecolor and improved re-used for their process.

Multicolor was developed by the Hughes Development Co. and Multicolor footage was shot for Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels. Unfortunately the Multicolor plant was unable to put out enough prints for the release so the prints were made in Technicolor III. I've included LUTs that simulate the Hell's Angels colour process in this pack.

UCLA M45794 HellsAngels 1930 TechnicolorIII R4 BF IMG 0123 — *Crop of Hell’s Angels (USA 1930, Howard Hughes). Credit: UCLA Film & Television Archive. Photographs of the Technicolor No. III dye-transfer nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger, from filmcolors.org*

These LUTs can be though of as colour transformation processes. They aren't designed with specific cameras in mind, or to transform log-encoded footage. They digitally apply the colour transform process that colour and density would go through in a Multicolor process.

Apply the LUTs using your favourite LUT utility. Comes as a 3D 32-bit LUT, so it works in all LUT situations like Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, monitors and even iPhone/Android apps.