Appendix D: 2 Strip Color:

Color system in which the visible spectrum is divided into the blue-green and orange-red regions for recording and presentation. Although extensively used in early color film processes, the inherent inability of two components to reproduce a satisfactory range of hues rendered all such systems obsolete when three-color processes became readily available. In its earliest form, a two-color print was made from two separation negatives exposed in a beam-splitter camera, each record being in the form of a black-and-white silver image. 2 Strip color processes were used in the 1920’s through the mid-1950s. During this period the following companies used the 2 strip color process: Cinecolor, Magnacolor, Multicolor (very briefly), Technicolor (until ca. 1932).