Technicolor Dyes

I am back home, but I have one more post from Rochester.  As part of the exhibit about Technicolor movies there was this wall of small, old, colorful bottles.  Making Technicolor prints for distribution to movie theaters involved putting down three different dyes on film - cyan, magenta and yellow.  The trick was to find the RIGHT dyes.  So the company that invented Technicolor was constantly examining different dyes from different manufacturers.  This wall is a display of these little bottles with dye samples, going back to 1916.  It was amazing to see this many tiny bottles!