This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio favorite. In the list below, all films prior to The Broadway Melody! (1929) are no-dialog "silents". About a third of the films are thought to be lost films, with no prints surviving. Some have survived incompletely or only in black-and-white copies made for TV broadcast use in the 1950s.
The earliest attempts to produce color films involved either tinting the film broadly with washes or baths of dyes, or painstakingly hand-painting certain areas of each frame of the film with transparent dyes. Stencil-based techniques such as Pathéchrome were a labor-saving alternative if many copies of a film had to be colored: each dye was rolled over the whole print using an appropriate stencil to restrict the dye to selected areas of each frame. The Handschiegl color process was a comparable technique. Because transparent dyes did not impact the clarity or detail of the image seen on the screen, the result could look rather naturalistic, but the choice of what colors to use and where was made by a person, so they could be very arbitrary and unlike the actual colors.
Edward Raymond Turner's process, tested in 1902, was the first to capture full natural color on motion picture film, but it proved to be mechanically impractical. A simplified two-color version, introduced as Kinemacolor in 1908, was marginally successful for a few years, but the special projector it required and its inherent major technical defects contributed to its demise in 1914. Technicolor, originally also a two-color process capable of only a limited range of hues, was commercialized in 1922 and soon became the most widely used of the several two-color processes available in the 1920s.
Beginning in 1932, Technicolor introduced a new full-color process, "Process 4", now commonly called "three-strip Technicolor" because the special camera used for live-action filming yielded separate black-and-white negatives for each of the three primary colors. The final print, however, was a single full-color strip of film that did not need any special handling. This became the standard process used by the major Hollywood studios until the mid-1950s.
| Year | Title | Country | Color process | Length | Production company | | 1902 | A Trip to the Moon | France}} France | Hand coloring directly on each copy of film stock | 260 m (845 ft) 16 min at 14 fps | Star Film Company |
| Extant. Directed by Georges Méliès. Also known as Le Voyage dans la Lune. Inspired by Jules Verne among others. An original hand-colored print was discovered in 1993 and restored in 2011. On DVD and Blu-ray. |
| 1903 | La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ | France}} France | Pathéchrome | Pathé Frères |
| Extant. Also known as The Passion Play and Vie et Passion du Christ. Not released as a single feature, but as 32 individual shorts in three different groupings and shot at different times. Some scenes are partially hand coloured (e.g. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3G0AGWKcHY 52 min. copy on Youtube]). The later scenes feature different actors and costumes from the earlier scenes.[1] On DVD. |
| 1912.1|1912}} | With Our King and Queen Through India | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Kinemacolor | Natural Color Kinematograph Company |
| First feature-length documentary capturing natural color rather than colorization techniques. The original footage ran for 2½ hours (16,000 ft.), presented in two different programmes. The main film of the Delhi Durbar itself was shot on 12 December 1911. The rest of the film was made in other locations in India up to 30 December 1911, of which only a ten-minute extract still exists. Released in UK on 2 February 1912.[2] |
| 1912.2|1912}} | {{sort>Miracle|The Miracle}} | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Pathéchrome | Joseph Menchen (personal project) |
| First stencil-colored feature-length narrative film. Filmed in Austria in October 1912; hand-colored in Paris by seventy people;[3] UK release on 21 December 1912. Original UK length 7,000 feet;[3] censored versions showed at 5,000 and 5,500 feet. Designed to be accompanied by score for full symphony orchestra and chorus by Engelbert Humperdinck. A B&W print of a cut version is extant, held at the CNC Archives, France. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbIAQYKGkRs Available on Youtube] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eun9BoCrg_s final scene only], with extracts of the original music. |
| 1914.1|1914}} | {{sort>World|The World, the Flesh and the Devil}} | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Kinemacolor | Natural Color Kinematograph Company |
| First feature-length narrative film in natural color. Lost. |
| 1914.2|1914}} | Little Lord Fauntleroy | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Kinemacolor | Natural Color Kinematograph Company |
| Status Unknown. |
| 1915 | Britain Prepared | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Kinemacolor inserts | Jury's Imperial Pictures |
| First British propaganda film. Extant. |
| 1916 | Joan the Woman | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color Process inserts | Famous Players-Lasky |
| Survives complete with color sequences. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. (Color was billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process") |
| 1917.1|1917}} | {{sort>Gulf|The Gulf Between }} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | Technicolor Corporation |
| First American film shot in color. Lost film. Only a few frames from test prints, showing star Grace Darmond, have survived. |
| 1917.2|1917}} | {{sort>Devil|The Devil-Stone}} | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color Process inserts | Famous Players-Lasky |
| Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Only two reels survive in AFI collection at Library of Congress. |
| 1918.1|1918}} | Cupid Angling | United States}} United States | Douglass Natural Color feature | Douglass Natural Color Film Inc. |
| Lost film. Only feature film made in this process. |
| 1918.2|1918}} | Our Navy | United States}} United States | Prizma feature | Prizma |
| First feature film shot in Prizmacolor. |
| 1920.1|1920}} | Treasure Island | United States}} United States | Hand coloring (Handschiegl?) | Paramount Pictures |
| Lost film. |
| 1920.2|1920}} | Roman Candles | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color Process inserts | Cineart |
| Lost film. |
| 1921.1|1921}} | Bali the Unknown | United States}} United States | Prizma feature | Prizma Inc. |
| Five-reel documentary opened 27 February 1921 at Capitol Theatre in NYC. On DVD. |
| 1921.2|1921}} | {{sort>Three|The Three Musketeers}} | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color Process inserts | United Artists |
| Film survives in black-and-white only. |
| 1922.1|1922}} | {{sort>Toll|The Toll of the Sea }} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 3190 ft. | Technicolor / Metro Pictures |
| The first natural-color feature film made in Hollywood. The final two reels are apparently lost. Available on DVD. |
| 1922.2|1922}} | {{sort>bli|A Blind Bargain}} | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color Process inserts | 188 ft. | Goldwyn Pictures |
| Lost film. |
| 1922.3|1922}} | {{sort>Glorious|The Glorious Adventure}} | United States}} United States/
{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Prizma feature | United Artists |
| Directed by J. Stuart Blackton. Extant at the British Film Institute. On DVD. |
| 1922.4|1922}} | Flames of Passion | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Prizma insert | Astra Film |
| Directed by Graham Cutts. Lost film. |
| 1922.5|1922}} | Foolish Wives | United States}} United States | Hand coloring inserts | Universal Pictures |
| Hand coloring by Gustav Brock. |
| 1923.1|1923}} | Red Lights | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color inserts | Goldwyn Pictures |
| Extant in black-and-white only. |
| 1923.2|1923}} | {{sort>Ten|The Ten Commandments}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts, Handschiegl Color inserts | Paramount Pictures |
| Survives complete. Is on DVD. |
| 1923.3|1923}} | Vanity Fair | United States}} United States | Prizma insert | Goldwyn Pictures |
| Directed by Hugo Ballin. Lost film. |
| 1923.4|1923}} | {{sort>Virgin|The Virgin Queen}} | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Prizma insert | J. Stuart Blackton Productions |
| Directed by J. Stuart Blackton. Status unknown. |
| 1923.5|1923}} | I Pagliacci | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Prizma insert | Napoleon Films |
| Starring Lillian Hall-Davis. Status unknown. |
| 1924.1|1924}} | {{sort>Uninvited|The Uninvited Guest}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | Metro Pictures |
| Preservation status unknown. |
| 1924.2|1924}} | Cytherea | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 230 ft. | Technicolor / Goldwyn Pictures |
| Lost film. First Technicolor film shot under artificial light. |
| 1924.3|1924}} | Wanderer of the Wasteland | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 3854 ft. | Paramount |
| First western in color. Lost film. |
| 1924.4|1924}} | Venus of the South Seas | United States}} United States | Prizma Insert | Lee-Bradford Corp. |
| Extant. Restored by the Library of Congress in 2004. Final reel is in Prizma. |
| 1924.5|1924}} | Heritage of the Desert | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 34 ft. | Paramount |
| Starring Bebe Daniels. Unknown status. |
| 1924.6|1924}} | Greed | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color Process inserts | Metro-Goldwyn Pictures |
| Short version of film extant, coloring lost (a few specimen frames may survive). On DVD. |
| 1924.7|1924}} | {{sort>Dancemood|The Dance of the Moods}} | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Friese-Greene Natural Color (formerly Biocolour) | Friese-Greene Productions |
| Unknown if a feature or short film. |
| 1924.8|1924}} | Moonbeam Magic | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Friese-Greene Natural Color (formerly Biocolour) | Spectrum Films |
| Produced by Claude Friese-Greene. Status unknown, possibly at BFI. |
| 1925.01|1925}} | Ben-Hur | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 1029 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant. On DVD. |
| 1925.01|1925}} | Cyrano de Bergerac | Italy}} Italy/
{{flagicon|France}} France | Pathéchrome feature | 9501 ft. | Unione Cinematografica Italiana |
| Starring Pierre Magnier. Extant. |
| 1925.03|1925}} | {{sort>Phantom|The Phantom of the Opera }} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts, Kelley Color /Handschiegl Color | 497 ft. | Universal Pictures |
| One color segment survives. On DVD. |
| 1925.04|1925}} | {{sort>Merry|The Merry Widow}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 136 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Film survives, but two-minute color sequence is lost. |
| 1925.05|1925}} | Stage Struck | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | Paramount |
| Extant with color sequences. Restored by George Eastman House. Starring Gloria Swanson. |
| 1925.06|1925}} | Pretty Ladies | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 597 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1925.07|1925}} | His Supreme Moment | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 517 ft. | First National Pictures |
| Lost film. |
| 1925.08|1925}} | {{sort>Big|The Big Parade}} | United States}} United States | Applied color by Technicolor | 154 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Feature and color exists. On DVD. |
| 1925.09|1925}} | So This Is Marriage? | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 729 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Lost film. |
| 1925.1|1925}} | {{sort>Splendid|The Splendid Road}} | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color inserts | First National Pictures |
| Status unknown. |
| 1925.11|1925}} | Seven Chances | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 275 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant with color. On DVD. |
| 1925.12|1925}} | {{sort>Kingmain|The King on Main Street}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 105 ft. | Famous Players-Lasky |
| Survives complete. |
| 1925.13|1925}} | Lights of Old Broadway | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts, Handschiegl Color Process inserts | Cosmopolitan Productions |
| Extant in Library of Congress. |
| 1926.01|1926}} | Fig Leaves | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 969 ft. | Fox Film Corporation |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1926.02|1926}} | Beverly of Graustark | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 354 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant. |
| 1926.03|1926}} | {{sort>Open|The Open Road}} | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Friese-Greene Natural Color (formerly Biocolour) | Friese-Greene Productions |
| Series of documentary films shot between 1924 and 1926. A print was restored and shown on the BBC in 2006. On DVD. |
| 1926.04|1926}} | {{sort>Last|Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii}} | Italy}} Italy | Pathéchrome feature | 12083 ft. | Società Italiana Grandi Films |
| Extant. US Title: The Last Days of Pompeii On DVD. |
| 1926.05|1926}} | Irene | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 972 ft. | First National Pictures |
| Survives complete with color sequences. |
| 1926.06|1926}} | Beau Geste | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | Paramount Pictures |
| Extant. |
| 1926.07|1926}} | {{sort>Flaming|The Flaming Forest}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 203 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant at Library of Congress. |
| 1926.08|1926}} | {{sort>American|The American Venus}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 1574 ft. | Paramount |
| Lost film. Two trailers, and brief clip of color insert, survive at the Library Of Congress. |
| 1926.09|1926}} | Volcano | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color inserts | Paramount Pictures |
| Extant at Library of Congress. Preserved by UCLA and Television and The Museum of Modernr Art. |
| 1926.1|1926}} | Mike | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color inserts | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant at Library Of Congress. Complete print of 70 minutes found at Library Of Congress in December 2015. |
| 1926.11|1926}} | {{sort>Black|The Black Pirate}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 8124 ft. | United Artists |
| Original Technicolor Process 2 print survives at the BFI. Commonly seen version was created from surviving negatives. Outtakes survive in black-and-white. On DVD. |
| 1926.12|1926}} | {{sort>Fire|The Fire Brigade}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts, Handschiegl Color inserts | 692 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Film extant, but color may be incomplete at Library of Congress . |
| 1926.13|1926}} | {{sort>Joy|The Joy Girl}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 285 ft. | Fox |
| A copy may survive in the Museum of Modern Art film archive. |
| 1926.14|1926}} | Flames | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color inserts | Associated Exhibitors |
| One reel exists in the Library of Congress. |
| 1926.15|1926}} | {{sort>Girl|The Girl from Montmartre}} | United States}} United States | Handschiegl Color inserts | First National Pictures |
| Preserved by Warner Bros. from original negative and nitrate handschiegl print. |
| 1927.1|1927}} | {{sort>Kingking|The King of Kings}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | DeMille Productions / Pathé Exchange |
| Survives complete. Is on DVD. |
| 1927.2|1927}} | Winners of the Wilderness | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| 16mm print extant. Starring Joan Crawford. On DVD. |
| 1927.3|1927}} | Annie Laurie | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 204 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant with color at the Library of Congress. |
| 1927.4|1927}} | {{sort>Wizard|The Wizard}} | United States}} United States | Hand coloring | Fox |
| Lost film. |
| 1927.5|1927}} | Napoléon | France}} France | Keller-Dorian process sequences | Abel Gance / Gaumont |
| Extant. Keller-Dorian process proved to be impractical. |
| 1927.6|1927}} | La revue des revues | France}} France | Pathéchrome inserts |
| Extant. |
| 1928.1|1928}} | La Femme et le pantin | France}} France | Keller-Dorian process |
| Extant. Directed by Jacques de Baroncelli |
| 1928.2|1928}} | None but the Brave | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 549 ft. | Fox |
| Unknown |
| 1928.3|1928}} | {{sort>Wedding|The Wedding March }} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert, hand coloring. | 294 ft. | Paramount |
| Extant. Directed by Erich von Stroheim |
| 1928.4|1928}} | Red Hair | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 57 ft. | Paramount |
| Lost film. Color tests survive at UCLA Film and Television Archive. |
| 1928.5|1928}} | Casanova | Germany}} Germany | Pathéchrome insert | Ciné-Alliance / Pathé |
| Extant. Based on operetta by Ralph Benatzky. |
| 1928.6|1928}} | {{sort>Viking|The Viking}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 8398 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant. The first Technicolor feature with sound (synchronized music score and sound effects only, no dialog or "live" sound). On DVD. |
| 1928.7|1928}} | {{sort>Water|The Water Hole}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 332 ft. | Paramount |
| Status unknown. |
| 1928.8|1928}} | Court-Martial | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 473 ft. | Columbia Pictures |
| Status unknown. |
| 1929.01|1929}} | Redskin | United States}} United States | Mostly Technicolor with sepia-toned sequences | 4463 ft. | Paramount |
| Synchronized music score and sound effects but no dialog or "live" sound. Survives complete. On DVD. |
| 1929.02|1929}} | On With the Show! | United States}} United States | Technicolor | 9592 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant in black-and-white. 20-second color clip exists in private collection. The first all-talking color feature. On DVD. |
| 1929.03|1929}} | Harmony Heaven | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Pathéchrome sequences | British International Pictures |
| Extant at British Film Institute |
| 1929.04|1929}} | {{sort>rom|A Romance of Seville}} | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Pathéchrome feature | British International Pictures |
| Sound version released July 1930. First British sound film released in color, using the Pathéchrome stencil-coloring process. On DVD. |
| 1929.05|1929}} | Devil-May-Care | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Prints survive. |
| 1929.06|1929}} | {{sort>Show|The Show of Shows}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 9987 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Only survives in black-and-white except "Chinese Fantasy" number with Myrna Loy and Nick Lucas and part or all of "Meet My Sister" number. On DVD with latter number in black-and-white (color footage only recently discovered). |
| 1929.07|1929}} | Pointed Heels | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 270 ft. | Paramount |
| Extant complete at UCLA. Broadcast master is in black-and-white. |
| 1929.08|1929}} | Paris | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 3645 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Picture lost exept 3 fragments at Seaver Center . Soundtrack extant. |
| 1929.09|1929}} | Gold Diggers of Broadway | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 9122 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Two incomplete reels and some short fragments extant. Complete disc soundtrack extant. Surviving reels on DVD. |
| 1929.1|1929}} | Sally | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 9280 ft. | First National-Warner Bros. |
| Extant only in black-and-white. Two-minute color sequence also extant. On DVD. |
| 1929.11|1929}} | Glorifying the American Girl | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 897 ft. | Paramount |
| Extant complete at UCLA. On DVD. |
| 1929.12|1929}} | {{sort>Broadway|The Broadway Melody}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 307 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant in black-and-white only. On DVD. |
| 1929.13|1929}} | {{sort>Desert|The Desert Song}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 306 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant in black-and-white only. |
| 1929.14|1929}} | Sunny Side Up | United States}} United States | Multicolor inserts | Fox |
| Extant in black-and-white only. |
| 1929.15|1929}} | {{sort>Hollywood|The Hollywood Revue of 1929 }} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 1360 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant |
| 1929.16|1929}} | Broadway | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 198 ft. | Universal |
| Survives in a talking version and a silent version made for theaters without sound equipment. The talking version is missing the final reel, the color sequence, which does survive in the silent version. |
| 1929.17|1929}} | Married in Hollywood | United States}} United States | Multicolor insert | Fox |
| Only final reel in Multicolor survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive. |
| 1929.18|1929}} | Red Hot Rhythm | United States}} United States | Multicolor insert | Pathé Exchange |
| Only one number in color, the title song, survives. |
| 1929.19|1929}} | This Thing Called Love | United States}} United States | Multicolor insert | Pathé Exchange |
| Lost film except for color sequence. |
| 1929.2|1929}} | {{sort>Dancelif|The Dance of Life}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 779 ft. | Paramount |
| Extant. |
| 1929.21|1929}} | Footlights and Fools | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 1183 ft. | First National-Warner Bros. |
| Lost film. |
| 1929.22|1929}} | His First Command | United States}} United States | Multicolor inserts | Pathé Exchange |
| Extant in black-and-white. Status of Multicolor sequences unknown. |
| 1929.23|1929}} | It's a Great Life | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 1391 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant. On DVD from Warner Archive Collection. |
| 1929.24|1929}} | {{sort>Mysterious|The Mysterious Island}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 8569 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant at UCLA. Complete Technicolor print was discovered in Prague, December 2013 and premiered at the 33rd Pordenone Silent Film Festival in October 2014. On DVD.[4] |
| 1929.25|1929}} | Rio Rita | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 2680 ft. | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Survives in a cut re-release copy with all color sequences. On DVD. |
| 1929.26|1929}} | {{sort>wil|William Fox Movietone Follies of 1929}} | United States}} United States | Multicolor inserts | Fox |
| Lost film. |
| 1929.27|1929}} | {{sort>Great|The Great Gabbo}} | United States}} United States | Multicolor inserts | Sono Art-World Wide Pictures |
| Survives in black-and-white except for missing color musical number "The Ga-Ga Bird". On DVD. |
| 1929.28|1929}} | Smiling Irish Eyes | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | First National Pictures |
| Lost film. Soundtrack discs survive at UCLA. |
| 1930.01|1930}} | {{sort>Rogue|The Rogue Song}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 9565 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Lost film. Complete soundtrack extant on discs. Trailer and fragments preserved at UCLA. |
| 1930.02|1930}} | {{sort>Life|The Life of the Party}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 7202 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1930.03|1930}} | Hold Everything | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 7280 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Survives in black-and-white. |
| 1930.04|1930}} | {{sort>Vagabond|The Vagabond King}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 9413 ft. | Paramount |
| Only complete copy restored by UCLA |
| 1930.05|1930}} | Just for a Song | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Pathécolor sequences | Gainsborough Pictures |
| Lost film |
| 1930.06|1930}} | Alf's Button | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Pathécolor sequences | British Gaumont |
| Lost film |
| 1930.07|1930}} | Paramount on Parade | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | 2517 ft. | Paramount |
| Plotless all-star revue. Most survives, but one black-and-white and one color sequence are missing, the color finale with Maurice Chevalier survives only in black-and-white, and the sound for two of the color sequences is missing. Restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive |
| 1930.08|1930}} | Under a Texas Moon | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 7501 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| First all-talking western shot entirely in color. Survives in a complete color copy. |
| 1930.09|1930}} | Whoopee! | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 8681 ft. | United Artists |
| Survives in at least one complete color copy. |
| 1930.1|1930}} | {{sort>School|The School for Scandal}} | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Raycolor feature | Albion Films |
| Only feature film photographed in this process. Lost film. |
| 1930.11|1930}} | Elstree Calling | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Pathéchrome Inserts | British International Pictures |
| Extant at the British Film Institute. Co-directed by Alfred Hitchcock. |
| 1930.12|1930}} | Hell's Angels | United States}} United States | Multicolor insert | 866 ft. | United Artists |
| Color sequence and film survive complete. Scene filmed in Multicolor, printed by Technicolor |
| 1930.13|1930}} | Knowing Men | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Talkicolor feature | United Artists Corporation |
| Second British sound feature in color. Lost film. |
| 1930.14|1930}} | King of Jazz | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 9320 ft. | Universal |
| Extant. |
| 1930.15|1930}} | Chasing Rainbows | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 1249 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Black-and-white parts survive, color sequences are completely lost. |
| 1930.16|1930}} | They Learned About Women | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Survives in black and white only. |
| 1930.17|1930}} | Good News | United States}} United States | Multicolor insert | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Color was used for the finale, which is now completely lost. The rest survives. |
| 1930.18|1930}} | Show Girl in Hollywood | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 832 ft. | First National-Warner Bros. |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1930.19|1930}} | Bride of the Regiment | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 7418 ft. | First National-Warner Bros. |
| Picture lost. Soundtrack extant. |
| 1930.21|1930}} | Puttin' on the Ritz | United States}} United States | Technicolor Insert | 953 ft. | United Artists |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1930.22|1930}} | Mammy | United States}} United States | Technicolor Inserts | 1497 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant. The first Al Jolson film with color. |
| 1930.23|1930}} | Call of the Flesh | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 721 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1930.24|1930}} | Bright Lights | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 6416 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1930.25|1930}} | Children of Pleasure | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | ~700 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Survives complete in black-and-white. Color sequences extant in sections. |
| 1930.26|1930}} | General Crack | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 532 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Survives in a silent copy with no color sequences made for theaters without sound equipment. |
| 1930.27|1930}} | Melody Man | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 826 ft. | Columbia Pictures |
| Extant. |
| 1930.28|1930}} | Follow Thru | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 8383 ft. | Paramount |
| Extant. |
| 1930.29|1930}} | {{sort>March|The March of Time}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor inserts | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Production never completed. Several musical sequences extant. |
| 1930.3|1930}} | New Movietone Follies of 1930 | United States}} United States | Multicolor inserts | Fox |
| Extant. Only copy at UCLA. |
| 1930.31|1930}} | {{sort>Florodora|The Florodora Girl}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 608 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant. |
| 1930.32|1930}} | Mamba | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 6998 ft. | Tiffany Pictures |
| Extant complete. First all-color all-talking feature which was not a musical. On DVD. |
| 1930.33|1930}} | Sweet Kitty Bellairs | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 5846 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant only in black-and-white. On DVD. |
| 1930.34|1930}} | Son of the Gods | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 442 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1930.35|1930}} | Song of the Flame | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 6501 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Sever Center>. |
| 1930.36|1930}} | Song of the West | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 7189 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant. On DVD from Warner Archive Collection. |
| 1930.37|1930}} | Viennese Nights | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 9191 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant, preserved at UCLA. |
| 1930.38|1930}} | Golden Dawn | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 7546 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant in black-and-white only. Color fragment found circa 2015. |
| 1930.39|1930}} | Peacock Alley | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 651 ft. | Tiffany |
| Extant; color sequence is at the Library of Congress. |
| 1930.4|1930}} | No, No, Nanette | United States}} United States | Technicolor Sequences | 3895 ft. | First National-Warner Bros. |
| BFI National Archive holds a 35mm incomplete nitrate print 160ft. |
| 1930.41|1930}} | {{sort>Lottery|The Lottery Bride}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 358 ft. | United Artists |
| Color sequence survives at the George Eastman House. On DVD. |
| 1930.42|1930}} | Lord Byron of Broadway | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 878 ft. | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Extant. |
| 1930.43|1930}} | Leathernecking | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 1474 ft. | RKO |
| Lost film. |
| 1930.44|1930}} | Hit the Deck | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 3772 ft. | RKO |
| Lost film. |
| 1930.45|1930}} | Dixiana | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 2006 ft. | RKO |
| Extant. |
| 1930.46|1930}} | {{sort>cuc|The Cuckoos}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor insert | 833 ft. | RKO |
| Extant. |
| 1931.01|1931}} | Delicious | United States}} United States | Multicolor inserts | Fox |
| Extant only in black-and-white. |
| 1931.02|1931}} | Woman Hungry | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 6119 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant. On DVD. |
| 1931.03|1931}} | Manhattan Parade | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 6692 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| 16mm Safety color print (ca. 3200 ft) is held at UCLA. |
| 1931.04|1931}} | Fifty Million Frenchmen | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 6480 ft. | Warner Bros. |
| Extant only in black-and-white. On DVD. |
| 1931.05|1931}} | Kiss Me Again | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | Warner Bros. |
| Extant only in black-and-white. On DVD. 2 fragments in color are held at Seaver Center |
| 1931.06|1931}} | {{sort>Hawk|The Hawk}} | United States}} United States | Multicolor feature | Romantic Productions |
| Shot as the first feature entirely in Multicolor, it had a very limited release. Five years later using the new process Cinecolor it was re-edited and re-recorded as "Phantom of Santa Fe". On DVD. |
| 1931.07|1931}} | {{sort>Runaround|The Runaround}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 5714 ft. | RKO |
| Extant only in black-and-white, except for color first reel at Museum of Modern Art. On DVD. |
| 1931.08|1931}} | Fanny Foley Herself | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 6699 ft. | RKO |
| Lost film. Technicolor trailer extant at George Eastman House. |
| 1932.09|1932}} | Tex Takes a Holiday | United States}} United States | Multicolor feature | Argosy Productions Corporation |
| Final feature-length film shot entirely in Multicolor. Extant. On DVD. |
| 1932.1|1932}} | Doctor X | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 7048 ft | Warner Bros. |
| Extant. On DVD. |
| 1932.11|1932}} | {{sort>Girl|The Girl from Calgary}} | United States}} United States | Magnacolor insert | Chardwick Productions |
| First reel was shot in color. Extant, status of color sequence is unknown. |
| 1932.12|1932}} | {{sort>Death|The Death Kiss}} | United States}} United States | Hand-colored inserts | Sono Art-World Wide Pictures |
| Extant. Hand color by Gustav Brock. |
| 1933.1|1933}} | Mystery of the Wax Museum | United States}} United States | Technicolor feature | 7184 ft | Warner Bros. |
| Extant. On DVD. |
| 1933.2|1933}} | Sairandhri | India}} India | UFacolor feature | Prabhat Film Company |
| First color film shot in India, but processed and printed in Germany. Extant. On DVD. |
| 1934.1|1934}} | Radio Parade of 1935 | United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | Dufaycolor inserts | British International Pictures |
| Two sequences were filmed in Dufaycolor. Extant. |
| 1934.2|1934}} | Adventure Girl | United States}} United States | Hand-colored fire scene | Van Beuren Studios |
| Extant. Hand color by Gustav Brock. |
| 1934.3|1934}} | Sweden, Land of the Vikings | United States}} United States | Cinecolor feature |
| First feature-length film in Cinecolor. On DVD. |
| 1934.4|1934}} | {{sort>Cat|The Cat and the Fiddle}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor, Process 4 insert | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Black-and-white with final reel in color. First use of three-strip Technicolor in a feature-length film. On DVD. |
| 1934.5|1934}} | {{sort>House|The House of Rothschild}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor, Process 4 insert | 20th Century Pictures / United Artist |
| Black-and-white with final sequence in color. |
| 1934.6|1934}} | Hollywood Party | United States}} United States | Technicolor, Process 4 insert | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Black-and-white with animated cartoon sequence in color. |
| 1934.7|1934}} | Kid Millions | United States}} United States | Technicolor, Process 4 insert | Samuel Goldwyn / United Artists |
| Black-and-white with "Ice Cream Factory" musical finale in color. |
| 1935.1|1935}} | Karnaval cvetov | Soviet Union}} Soviet Union | Russian two-color process feature | Mezhrabpomfilm |
| First Russian color film. Extant complete. On DVD. |
| 1935.2|1935}} | Jeunes filles à marier | France}} France | Franciacolor feature | Paris Color Films |
| First French feature in natural color. Extant. On DVD. |
| 1935.3|1935}} | Legong: Dance of the Virgins | United States}} United States | Technicolor Process 3 (two-color) feature | 5054 ft | DuWorld Pictures (US) / Paramount (intl) |
| Produced by Constance Bennett and Henri de la Falaise. Feature-length documentary filmed entirely in two-color Technicolor, one of the last uses of the older process. Restored in 1999 by UCLA Film and Television Archive. On DVD. |
| 1935.4|1935}} | {{sort>Little|The Little Colonel}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor, Process 4 insert | Fox |
| Black-and-white with one Technicolor sequence |
| 1935.5|1935}} | Becky Sharp | United States}} United States | Technicolor, Process 4 feature | Pioneer Pictures / RKO |
| First feature-length film entirely in three-strip Technicolor. On DVD. |
| 1936.01|1936}} | Kliou the Killer | United States}} United States | Technicolor, Process 3 (two-color) feature | 4917 ft | Bennett Pictures / DuWorld Pictures (US) |
| Final two-color Technicolor feature. Extant only in black and white. On DVD. |
| 1936.02|1936}} | {{sort>Trail|The Trail of the Lonesome Pine}} | United States}} United States | Technicolor, Process 4 feature | Walter Wanger Productions / Paramount Pictures |
| First three-strip Technicolor feature filmed outdoors by natural light. |
| 1936.03|1936}} | We're in the Legion Now! | United States}} United States | Magnacolor feature | George A. Hirliman Productions |
| Also known as The Rest Cure. Extant. On DVD. |
| 1936.04|1936}} | Phantom of Santa Fe | United States}} United States | Cinecolor feature | Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises |
| Filmed in Multicolor five years earlier as "The Hawk", re-edited version released in Cinecolor as "Phantom of Santa Fe". Extant. On DVD. |
| 1936.05|1936}} | {{sort>Dying|La terre qui meurt}} | France}} France | Franciacolor feature | Paris Color Films |
| Also known as "The Land That Dies". Restored in 1992. On DVD. |
| 1936.06|1936}} | Pagliacci | Italy}} Italy/
{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom | UFAcolor inserts | Trafalgar Film Productions |
| Extant with color. On DVD. |
| 1936.07|1936}} | {{sort>Nightingale|Grunya Kornakova}} | Soviet Union}} Soviet Union | Russian two-color Process feature | Mezhrabpomfilm |
| First Russian feature-length narrative film in color. Extant. |
| 1936.08|1936}} | Bajo el sol de Loret | Peru}} Peru | Unknown color process feature |
| Also known as "Under Loreto's Sun". First Peruvian color feature film. Extant. |
| 1936.09|1936}} | {{sort>Devil|The Devil on Horseback}} | United States}} United States | Hirlicolor feature | George A. Hirliman Productions |
| Long presumed lost until found in private collection in the 1980s. Complete in UCLA Film and Television Archive. On DVD. |
| 1936.1|1936}} | {{sort>Bold|The Bold Caballero}} | United States}} United States | Magnacolor feature | Republic Pictures |
| First "Zorro" film shot in color. Extant complete. On DVD. |
| 1936.11|1936}} | Captain Calamity | United States}} United States | Hirlicolor feature | George A. Hirliman Productions |
| Extant complete. Released on DVD. |
| 1937 | Kisan Kanya | India}} India | Cinecolor feature | Imperial Pictures |
| First Hindi color film made entirely in India. Extant. On DVD. |
| 1938 | The Land of My Mother | Poland}} Poland | Eastman Kodak | Ève Curie and Romuald Gantkowski |
| First Polish color film (37 minutes, sound). Film, 35mm reel survived in The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London. Some literature dated film as younger film only because of later added sound commentary about WWII. |
1. ^Abel, Richard (1998) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VnPUIY1FapsC&pg=PA576 The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914]. University of California Press {{ISBN|9780520912915}}, p.576
2. ^McKernan, Luke (2009). ‘The modern Elixir of Life’: Kinemacolor, royalty and the Delhi Durbar, in Film History, Vol. 21, pp. 122–136, 2009.
3. ^1 [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/12/09/100563268.pdf "Film show in Covent Garden"]. New York Times, 9 December 1912
4. ^http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/gcm/allegati/2014_CalendarioGCM_w3.pdf