Like the features of the actress in her role as the medieval heroine Rebecca of York, the footage was vivid. So the question was: how long had it been since I had gotten such a chromatic thrill in a movie theater? Today, the footage is digitally manipulated to result in an ochre or grayish sheen that, compared to classic Hollywood films, is rather bland. This is quite the opposite of what was considered to be the case when color cinema was first introduced. In his book Chromatic Cinema, Richard Misek recalls that when Antonioni was shooting Red Desert, his first color film, he had an entire forest painted gray.