 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|||||
|
 |
 |
Biography of Natalie KalmusName: Natalie KalmusBirth Date: 1883 Death Date: November 15, 1965 Place of Birth: Norfolk, Virginia, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: inventor, cinematographer Natalie Kalmus Natalie Kalmus (1883-1965) played a key role in the development and promotion of the Technicolor film process.Kalmus was born Natalie Mabelle Dunfee in 1883 (some sources say 1878 or 1892) in Norfolk, Virginia, the daughter of George Kayser Dunfee and his wife. As a child, she moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where she spent her youth. Kalmus sometimes worked as a model, but was primarily interested in art, which she studied at Stetson University in Deland, Florida.Married Herbert KalmusOn July 23, 1902, Kalmus married Herbert T. Kalmus, the first marriage for both. She continued to pursue her studies in art at the Boston School of Art and Boston's Curry School of Expressionism while her husband obtained his undergraduate degree. He graduated in 1904 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After his graduation, the couple moved to San Francisco where Herbert Kalmus owned part of the University School and served as principal. He sold out his …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…New York Times, Kalmus was quoted as having said that in her Technicolor work, she was "playing ringmaster to the rainbow." Further Reading Acker, Ally, Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 to the Present, Continuum, 1991.American National Biography: Volume 12, edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, Oxford University Press, 1999.Basten, Fred E., Glorious Technicolor: The Movies' Magic Rainbow, A.S. Barnes and Company, 1980.The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, edited by John S. Bowman, Cambridge University Press, 1995.Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Seven, 1961-1965, edited by John A. Garraty, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981.Katz, Ephraim, The Film Encyclopedia, HarperPerennial, 1998.Los Angeles Times, December 4, 1998.New York Times, November 18, 1965.Washington Times, December 6, 1998."Natalie Kalmus: The Selling of Color," The Film 100, http://www.film100.com/cgi/direct.cgi?v.kalm (February 9, 2001)."Red, Green and Blue: Short history of AMPS' Sustaining Member-Technicolor," Technicolor History, http://www.amps.net/newsetters/issue28/28_Technicolor_History.htm (February 9, 2001). |