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Herbert Thomas Kalmus (November 9, 1881 – July 11, 1963) was an American scientist and engineer who played a significant role in developing color motion picture film. Kalmus was the co-founder and president of the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation.
In 1912, MIT professors Dr. Herbert Kalmus (pictured above on the left hand side) and Dr. Daniel Comstock join with self-taught mechanical engineering prodigy W. Burton Westcott to create KCW, their research engineering firm that directly led to their exploration and embrace of motion picture color and the creation of Technicolor in 1915.
Herbert T. Kalmus was president and co-founder of the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation. As the company's business leader, Kalmus used his talent for courting investors and negotiating contracts to firmly position Technicolor as a vital part of the film industry.
Herbert Kalmus was a Queen's professor who invented technicolor, a three-colour camera that captured the full spectrum. He left Queen's in 1915 to pursue his movie project and became a pioneer of modern entertainment.
LOS ANGELES, July 11 Dr. Herbert T. Kalmus, the scientist who invented Technicolor, died today of a heart attack at his home in West Los Angeles. He was 81 years old.
Contents. Herbert Kalmus. American inventor. Learn about this topic in these articles: development of Technicolor motion pictures. In history of film: Introduction of colour. …a two-colour one introduced by Herbert Kalmus’s Technicolor Corporation in 1922.
Oct 10, 2012 · The answer: Technicolor. Inventors and MIT graduates Herbert Kalmus and Daniel Comstock, and the technically adept W. Burton Wescott founded Technicolor in 1915 (the "Tech" in Technicolor was a nod to Kalmus and Comstock's alma mater).
