Color Films after Becky Sharp (1935)

From IMDb, these are all-color live-action American feature films in the 3-strip Technicolor era, in release order. I'm not sure that IMDb should be trusted. Some of these are not on a Wikipedia list of films with ANY color, but that's flawed too because Dancing Pirate and Ramona are absent from that Wikipedia page. Also, the total number of titles is more suspicious in earlier years, because it likely includes some short subjects whose length is absent.


1 of 597 titles in 1935

• Becky Sharp (1935), Pioneer Pictures/RKO distr.; (MC Cooper)

7 of 579 titles in 1936

• The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), Wanger & Paramount
• Dancing Pirate (1936), Pioneer Pictures/RKO (MC Cooper) *musical
• Ramona (1936), Fox
• The Devil on Horseback (1936), George A. Hirliman Productions (as Condor Pictures Inc.)/ distr. Grand National (Hirlicolor) *musical
• The Garden of Allah (1936), Selznick/UA
• The Bold Caballero (1936), Republic (Magnacolor)
• We're in the Legion Now (1936), George A. Hirliman Productions / distr. Grand National (Magnacolor)

5 of 580 titles in 1937

• God's Country and the Woman (1937), Warner
• A Star Is Born (1937), Selznick/UA
• Vogues of 1938 (1937), Wanger/UA *musical
• Ebb Tide (1937), Paramount
• Nothing Sacred (1937), Selznick/UA

10 of 508 titles in 1938

• The Goldwyn Follies (1938), Goldwyn *musical
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), Selznick/UA
• Gold Is Where You Find It (1938), Warner
• Her Jungle Love (1938), Paramount *music
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Warner
• Men with Wings (1938), Paramount
• Valley of the Giants (1938), Warner
• Heart of the North (1938), Warner
• Sweethearts (1938), MGM *musical
• Kentucky (1938), Fox

I didn't analyze the following lists at all; some animated features and/or length-missing shorts might be included. 

• 17 of 535 titles in 1939
• 15 of 528 titles in 1940 
• 21 of 536 titles in 1941 (This is still pre-war for us. That's a different double feature 5+ nights/week.)
• 15 of 516 titles in 1942
• 22 of 431 titles in 1943
• 30 of 411 titles in 1944
• 32 of 411 titles in 1945
• 42 of 423 titles in 1946 (I was expecting a bigger jump post-war.)
• 51 of 423 titles in 1947
• 70 of 423 titles in 1948  (U.S. Supreme Court decides Paramount et al antitrust case - May 03, 1948 that studios must divest themselves of distribution and exhibition divisions; TV begins to infiltrate homes.)
• 64 of 390 titles in 1949
• 80 of 417 titles in 1950 (Eastman Color provides alternative to Technicolor.)
• 83 of 407 titles in 1951
• 121 of 361 titles in 1952
• 154 of 370 titles in 1953 (First modern widescreen movie, The Robe, released in December in Technicolor.)
• 168 of 292 titles in 1954 (First TV broadcasts in color.)
• 152 of 296 titles in 1955
• 142 of 306 titles in 1956
• 106 of 349 titles in 1957
• 111 of 313 titles in 1958
• 93 of 241 titles in 1959 
• 97 of 208 titles in 1960
• 108 of 240 titles in 1961
• 109 of 227 titles in 1962
• 124 of 228 titles in 1963 (Cleopatra finishes Fox as the last studio to operate as a movie factory.)