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Celluloid Film

This document discusses the use and meaning of different colors in film. It describes how each color - red, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple - can elicit different emotions and reactions based on their cultural, historical, and religious associations. For each color, it provides examples of how they are used and what emotions or concepts they may represent when used in films, such as red representing violence, passion, or danger, and blue representing calmness, isolation, or tranquility.

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Celluloid Film

This document discusses the use and meaning of different colors in film. It describes how each color - red, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple - can elicit different emotions and reactions based on their cultural, historical, and religious associations. For each color, it provides examples of how they are used and what emotions or concepts they may represent when used in films, such as red representing violence, passion, or danger, and blue representing calmness, isolation, or tranquility.

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Celluloid Film

KINETOSCOPE
A peepshow cabinet with an eyehole through which these earliest “movies” could be viewed one
person at a time
CINEMATOGRAPHE
A hand cranked camera, printer, and projector all in one that was lightweight
enough to bring outside the studio
FILM GENRES
SILENT FILM
“SLAPSTICK” COMEDY FILM
Sound still unavailable and relied on purely visual comedy
HORROR
GANGSTER MOVIE GENRE
FANTASY FILM
THRILLER
MUSICAL
WAR
FILM ADAPTATION OF LITERATURE
SCIENCE FICTION
DOCUMENTARY FILM
BIOGRAPHICAL FILM
HISTORICAL
What Does Each Color Represent?
Each color has many different meanings. They can elicit different emotions or shape our concept and
reaction to them based on historical and global meanings. Different cultures have different emotions or
meanings for each color. These cultural, historical and religious meanings shape our response to color
used in film.

RED
• Red is a color of extremes. In film, red is the color of love,
passion, excitement, desire, violence, blood, danger, anger, fire,
war, heat, and rage. Red captures a viewer’s attention and is one
of the most visible colors. This is why red is used on fire trucks
and stop signs. The color red focuses behind the viewer’s retina
which forces the lens to grow more convex to pull it forward. This
allows the viewer to perceive red as moving forward and
captures their attention.
PINK
• Pink is a combination of red and white. In film,
pink is the color of innocence, romance,
charm, sweetness, femininity, playfulness,
empathy, and beauty. Historically, in almost
every culture, the color pink is associated with
girls, and the color blue represents boys.
•ORANGE
• Orange is a polarizing color and is very vibrant. The
color orange, like the fruit symbolizes health and
wellness. Orange is also the color of life rafts and
hazard cones. Orange is a complementary color to
blue and a triadic color with green and purple. In
film, purple is the color of humor, warmth, sociability,
friendly, happiness, exoticness, and youth.
•YELLOW
• Yellow is the most luminous color on the color wheel. It
captures the viewer’s attention more than any other
color. The human eye processes yellow first on the color
spectrum. This is why yellow is used for cautionary
signs and emergency rescue vehicles. In Japan, the
color yellow represents courage. In China, adult films are
referred to as yellow films. During the Inquisition, those
that committed treason wore yellow. In traditional film,
yellow is the color of wisdom, knowledge, sickness,
insecurity, obsession, idealization, naivety, cowardice,
deceit, and hazard.
•GREEN
• Green has become a symbol of ecology. Some see
green as a holy color and others see it as a lucky color.
On most traffic lights, green is the color for go. There
are also more shades of green than any other color. A
small number of people are green/red color blind. In
film, green is the color of nature, healing, perseverance,
health, envy, immaturity, corruption, and ominousness.
BLUE
One of the most sighted favorite colors, blue is the color of nature, from the water to the sky. Blue is as cold as red is hot. Blue has a
complementary color in orange. It is also one of the primary colors. In film, blue is the color of coldness, isolation, cerebral,
melancholy, passivity, calm, faith, spirituality, loyalty, tranquility, harmony, unity, trust, and water.
PURPLE
• Purple is a rarity in nature and the most powerful wavelength
on a rainbow. It is the most powerful visible wavelength of
electromagnetic energy. Purple is therefore the hardest color
for the eye to discriminate. Purple is made up of hot red and
cool blue. Historically, the cost of purple dye was expensive
and was primarily used by royalty. In film, purple is the color
of fantasy, the ethereal, the illusory, eroticism, mysticism,
mystery, nobility, and royalty.

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