Following this year’s collaboration on Academy Museum Branch Selects in New York, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the Paris Theater announce a new summer series, The Wonders of Technicolor, celebrating the impact of the Technicolor process on cinema history.

Screenings will take place weekly from Saturday, June 28 until Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

Color is an integral part of the cinematic experience. Filmmakers worldwide use color to shape narratives, evoke mood, or establish time and location. For audiences, colors elicit emotional responses, transcending logic to resonate with the subconscious mind. Introduced in the 1930s, Technicolor IV became the prevailing color technology choice for Hollywood productions through the mid-1950s. The influential process came to define the look of studio pictures thanks to its crisp images and vibrancy. Technicolor and its color consultants advised on all aspects of production, from costume design to art direction and cinematography. Even later pictures shot on color film stocks such as Eastman, including Vertigo (1958) and Cabaret (1972), would often be printed in glorious Technicolor. This screening series, programmed to accompany the Academy Museum’s Los Angeles exhibition Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema, celebrates the vibrant and indelible impact of Technicolor on Hollywood productions and audiences.

Tickets are available below for purchase by the public, while Academy members can request tickets at membership.oscars.org.