Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont Street, Boston

Technicolor was a Boston startup that helped the movies evolve from a black-and-white medium to a rainbow of color. While the company's breakthrough year was 1939, with movies like "The Wizard of Oz" and "Gone with the Wind," the company got its start in 1915. In 1917, this building was the site of the first public screening of a Technicolor movie, “The Gulf Between.” The film was made using the Technicolor company’s original two-color system, in which an elaborate projection system merged images from a greenish-blue print and a separate reddish-orange print. Two of the co-founders of Technicolor, Herbert Kalmus and Daniel Comstock, were graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and they named the company after their alma mater — known then as "The Tech."

Guest speaker 

Luci Marzola, lecturer, USC School of Cinematic Arts; author, Engineering Hollywood: Technology, Technicians, and the Science of Building the Studio System (2021).