12 Facts About Natalie Kalmus

Natalie M Kalmus was the executive head of the Technicolor art department and credited as the director or "color consultant" of all Technicolor films produced from 1934 to 1949.

Natalie Kalmus, who is often credited as a co-developer of the Technicolor process itself, was a member of the production team that shot the first Technicolor footage in 1917.

Natalie Kalmus collaborated with the art and wardrobe departments of motion-picture studios during the preparation and filming of Technicolor productions.

Natalie Kalmus reviewed their costume selections, set furnishings, and lighting and then specified needed color changes and equipment adjustments to create the best visual "palette" for her company's Technicolor cameras.

In summarizing her duties as the company's color art director at various studios, Natalie Kalmus described her role "'as playing ringmaster to the rainbow'".

In 1932, Photoplay feature writer Lois Shirley described for her readers the mix of psychology and technical expertise that "color scientist" Natalie Kalmus employed to get a leading actress to select an appropriate item of clothing for the Technicolor cameras:.

Mrs Natalie Kalmus knew no actress could do her best work with wrong radiations emanating from the color she was wearing.

Natalie Kalmus had both technical reasons and her color charts for insisting on the use of specific colors for costumes, props, and lighting during filming with Technicolor cameras.

Natalie Kalmus sued unsuccessfully for separate maintenance, including half of her ex-husband's assets of the corporation.

Natalie Kalmus studied at the University of Zurich and Queen's University in Ontario where her husband taught physics, electro-chemistry and metallurgy and earned his doctorate.

Natalie Kalmus died at Roslindale General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts on November 15,1965.

Natalie Kalmus was interred in Beechwood Cemetery in the village of Centerville, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod.