1942 Nazi Color Film Handboook

NAZI COLOR FILM HANDBOOK

,,FILM UND FARBE’’ (FILM AND COLOR)
1942 REPORT OF THE GERMAN MOVIE
TECHNICAL SOCIETY OF THE
GERMAN ASSOCIATION FOR
PHOTOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

In Nazi Germany all matters pertaining to the movie industry were controlled by the apparatus of the Reichsfilmkammer (State Movie Chamber) of the Reichskulturkammer (RKK or State Chamber of Culture).

A new law passed on 22 September 1933 under the Nazi “Enabling Act” created a Reichskulturkammer which exercised complete organizational and administrative power over, “all forms of artistic creation or activity which are made public” and “all activities as soon as they appear in print, in films, or are transmitted through the air”.

That new State Chamber was run by a collaboration of the State Ministry of Economics (Reichswirtschaftsministerium at Wilhelmplatz 1/2 in Berlin, Walther Funk, State Minister from 1937 onward) and the State Ministry for National Community Clarification and Publicity (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda at Wilhelmplatz 8/9 in Berlin, Dr. Josef Goebbels, State Minister).

The President of the RKK was Dr. Goebbels, who appointed the Vice President and Secretary.

Since this book ,,Film und Farbe’’ (Film and Color) was produced as a dissertation on color movie and still photo film and presented at a congress in Dresden by the Color Committee of the German Movie Technical Society of the German Association for Photographic Research, the SS had their hand in it. The overseer of the study, the lecture, and the publication of this book was SS General and Staatssekretär Leopold Gutterer (above right) and that is why his full-page, full-color portrait in uniform appears at the front of a very scientifically oriented book.

,,Film und Farbe’’ covers every aspect known in Germany in 1942 of the subject of color motion picture and camera film. It explains color negative and positive films, filters, copying, light and shadow, soundtracks on color film, stereo cameras and their pictures, how eyes see color, color printing paper, etc., etc. This is explained for people with a background in color film.

SPECIFICATIONS: This is a beautiful 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 inch, very heavily illustrated, full-color, 124 page hardcover book by Dr. Joachim Grassmann and Dr. Walter Rahts as published in 1943 by Max Hesses Verlag in Berlin, Germany.
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