 An infamous figure in the history of colour cinematography, who often fought with cinematographers and art directors and is generally considered to have contributed little to the films on which her name appears. The Technicolor system was invented in large part by Herbert T. Kalmus, who had married Natalie Dunphy in 1903. When she divorced him in 1922, the divorce settlement gave her the right to place her name as Color Consultant on all Technicolor productions. When Technicolour (sic) Ltd. was formed in the UK in 1935, she was shipped to England, where her name appeared on the first British Technicolor production, Wings of the Morning (d. Harold Schuster, 1937), and stayed here for a number of years. Following a series of bitter lawsuits, her name was finally removed from Technicolor films in 1949, after which Joan Bridge became British Techicolor consultant. Anthony Slide, Encyclopedia of British Film
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