Audio and Color in Film

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea of a talking picture was unheard of. At first, sound was recording on a disk, and played in synchronization with the film. By 1929, most of Hollywood had completely converted to this method. Movies like Don Juan and the Jazz Singer made their debut during this time. As technology progressed, quieter cameras and microphones came into play, further perfecting film.

Becoming more and more tech savvy, film makers began to experiment with color. Technicolor was a popular color process developed in the 1920s, that made hand-coloring a thing of the past. Disney's animated Three Little Pigs (1933), and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937), as well as Gone With the Wind (1939) and the Wizard of Oz (1939) all featured Technicolor.