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Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

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Paramount Pictures

American film and distribution company

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production and distribution company and the flagship namesake subsidiary of Paramount Skydance Corporation. It is the sixth-oldest film studio in the world, the…
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Dr. Cyclops

1940 film by Ernest B. Schoedsack

Dr. Cyclops is a 1940 American science fiction horror film from Paramount Pictures, produced by Dale Van Every and Merian C. Cooper, directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack, and starring Thomas Coley, Victor Kilian, Janice Logan, Charles Halton, Frank Yaconelli and Albert Dekker.
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Technicolor

Color motion picture process

Technicolor is a family of color motion picture processes. The first version, Process 1, was introduced in 1916, and improved versions followed over several decades.
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June 12

Day of the year

June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 202 days remain until the end of the year.
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