Blanche Fury (GBR 1948, Marc Allégret).

Credit: National Science and Media Museum Bradford (Kodak Film Samples Collection).

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.

Credit: BFI National Archive.

Photographs of the Technicolor dye-transfer nitrate print from 1947 by Michelle Beutler and Olivia Kristina Stutz, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.

Contemporary Reception:

Anonymous (1948): Blanche Fury. In: The Exhibitor, 40,19, Sep., p. 2470. View Quote
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Anonymous (1948): Blanche Fury Sombre British Costume Melodrama. In: Film Bulletin, 16,18, Aug., p. 14. View Quote
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Anonymous (1948): Reviews of New Films. Blanche Fury. In: The Film Daily, 42, Aug., p. 7. View Quote
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Watkins, Liz (2010): Colour Consciousness and Design in Blanche Fury as Technicolor Melodrama. In: Journal of British Cinema and Television, 7,1, pp. 53–68. PDF Online

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