The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American Technicolor epic swashbuckler film from Warner Bros. Pictures. It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, and Alan Hale. The film is particularly noted for its Academy Award-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Theatrical release poster, by Alex Raymond.
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
"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.