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- Category: Motion pictures
- Star rank: 2175
- Address:
6193 Hollywood Blvd - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing east
- GPS location:
34.101764, -118.324286
Herbert Kalmus
Biography
Herbert Kalmus of Technicolor
Source: Technicolor
Herbert Thomas Kalmus (9 November 1881 – 11 July 1963) was an American scientist and engineer who played a key role in developing color motion picture film. Kalmus was the co-founder and president of the The Technicolor Corporation. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904; the “Tech” in Technicolor is partly a tribute to that school. He earned his doctorate at the University of Zurich, then taught physics, electrochemistry and metallurgy at MIT and Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 1912, Kalmus and fellow MIT graduate Daniel Comstock formed Kalmus, Comstock, and Wescott, an industrial research and development firm, with mechanic W. Burton Wescott, who left the company in 1921. When the firm was hired to analyze an inventor’s flicker-free motion picture system, they became intrigued with the art and science of filmmaking, particularly color motion picture processes, leading to the incorporation of Technicolor in 1915.
Fact file
- Born: November 9, 1881 Chelsea, Massachusetts
- Died: July 11, 1963 (aged 81) Los Angeles, California
- Occupation: Scientist, Engineer, Inventor, and Businessman
Read more about Herbert Kalmus at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database
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