Foxfire is a 1955 American drama romance Western film released by Universal-International, directed by Joseph Pevney, and starring Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler, and Dan Duryea. The movie was loosely ba
Theatrical release poster
Technicolor is a family of color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades.
Foxfire (1955 film)
…loosely based on a best-selling 1950 novel by Anya Seton. Foxfire is historically notable in that it was the last American film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor, a process that had been supplanted by the coarser-grained and less chromatically saturated, but much cheaper, Eastmancolor single-strip process. After…
"Technicolor is natural color" Paul Whiteman stars in an ad for his film King of Jazz from The Film Daily, 1930
A frame from a surviving fragment of The Gulf Between (1917), the first publicly shown Technicolor film
A frame from The Toll of the Sea (1922), the first generally released Technicolor film, and the first to use a two-strip subtractive color process
A frame enlargement of a Technicolor segment from The Phantom of the Opera (1925). The film was one of the earliest uses of the process on interior sets, and demonstrated its versatility.