Moving ColorColor was used in film well before The Wizard of Oz. Thomas Edison, for example, projected two colored films at his first public screening in New York City on April 23, 1896. These first colors of early cinema were not photographic; they were applied manually through a variety of laborious processesmost commonly by the hand coloring and stenciling of prints frame by frame, and the tinting and toning of films in vats of chemical dyes. The results were