Black Narcissus (GBR 1947, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger).
Credits: Academy Film Archive and National Science and Media Museum Bradford (Kodak Film Samples Collection).
Photographs of the Technicolor dye-transfer nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
Photographs of the Technicolor No. IV dye-transfer safety prints by Josephine Diecke, SNSF project Film Colors. Technologies, Cultures, Institutions and Joëlle Kost, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
Contemporary Reception:
Anonymous (1947): Black Narcissus with Deborah Kerr. In: Harrison’s Reports, XXIX,28, Jul., p. 111. View Quote
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Anonymous (1947): Black Narcissus, British Study of Missionary Nuns, Starring Deborah Kerr, Bill at Fulton. Based on Novel by Godden. In: The New York Times, 14 August 1947, p. 29. View Quote
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Anonymous (1947): Reviews. Black Narcissus. In: The Film Daily, 92,12, Jul., p. 7. View Quote
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Basten, Fred E. (1980): Glorious Technicolor. The Movies’ Magic Rainbow. South Brunswick: Barnes, on pp. 131–132. View Quote
Burnup, Peter (1947): Reviews. Black Narcissus. In: Motion Picture Daily, 61,92, May, p. 8. View Quote
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Selected Analyses:
Brost, Laure (2007): On Seeing Red. The Figurative Movement of Film Colour. In: Wendy Everett (ed.): Questions of Colour in Cinema. From Paintbrush to Pixel. Peter Lang: Oxford, pp. 127–139, on pp. 127–128 View Quote and on pp. 131-135. View Quote
Grob, Norbert (1991): Farbe im Auge, Ausdruck im Kopf. Hein Heckroths Farbdramaturgien für Powell & Pressburger. In: Katharina Spielhaupter (ed.): Hein Heckroth. Frankfurt/M.: Filmmuseum, pp. 57–78, on pp. 58–60.) (in German) View Quote
Mamoulian, Rouben (1960): Color and Light in Films. The Esthetics of Colour. In: Film Culture, 21, pp. 68–79, on p. 76. View Quote
Pierotti, Federico (2012): La seduzione dello spettro. Storia e cultura del colore nel cinema. Genova: Le Mani-Microart, on pp. 157–158. (in Italian) View Quote
Street, Sarah (2009): ‘Colour Consciousness’. Natalie Kalmus and Technicolor in Britain. In: Screen, 50,2, p. 191‒215, on pp. 209–212. View Quote
Street, Sarah (2012): Colour Films in Britain. The Negotiation of Innovation 1900–55. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, on pp. 179–183. View Quote
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Black Narcissus (GBR 1947, Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger). Credits: Academy Film Archive and National Science and Media Museum Bradford (Kodak Film Samples Collection). Photographs of the Technicolor dye-transfer nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger. Photographs of the Technicolor No. IV dye-transfer safety prints by Josephine Diecke, SNSF project Film Colors. Technologies, Cultures, Institutions and Joëlle Kost, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.