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West Side Story (1961)
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Color system

Technicolor No. V: Dye transfer prints from chromogenic negative

West Side Story (USA 1961, Jerome Robbins; Robert Wise).

Credit: Academy Film Archive.

Photographs of the Technicolor V dye-transfer safety print by Barbara Flueckiger.

 

 

Contemporary Reception:

Anonymous (1961): West Side Story. In: The Exhibitor, Sep., p. 4870. View Quote
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Anonymous (1961): West Side Story. In: Variety, Sep., p. 6. View Quote
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Crowther, Bosley (1961): Screen. West Side Story Arrives. Film at the Rivoli Is Called Masterpiece. In: The New York Times, Oct., p. 39. View Quote
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West Sykes, Velma (1962): West Side Story (UA) Winner Of March Blue Ribbon Award. In: Boxoffice, Apr., p. 15. View Quote
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Selected Analyses:

Acevedo-Munoz, Ernesto R. (2013): West Side Story as Cinema. The Making and Impact of an American Masterpiece. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

Davine, Lauren (2016): “Could We Not Dye It Red at Least?”. Color and Race in West Side Story. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television, 44,3, Jul., pp. 139–149. Download PDF

Dunn, Linwood G. (1961): Effects and Titles for West Side Story. In: American Cinematographer, 42,12, pp. 736–738, 757–760, on pp. 737–738, 757–758. View Quote
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Lightman, Herb A. (1961): The Photography of West Side Story. In: American Cinematographer, 42,12, pp. 726–727, 754–756, on pp. 727, 754 – 756. View Quote
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