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Herbert Kalmus, Herbert Thomas Kalmus (November 9, 1881 – July 11, 1963) was an American scientist and engineer who played a key role in developing color motion picture film. Kalmus was the co-founder and president of the The Technicolor Corporation.He received a bachelors degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904; the Tech in Technicolor is partly a tribute to that school. He earned his doctorate at the University of Zurich, then taught physics, electrochemistry and metallurgy at MIT and Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.In 1912, Kalmus and fellow MIT graduate Daniel Comstock formed Kalmus, Comstock, and Wescott, an industrial research and development firm, with mechanic W. Burton Wescott, who left the company in 1921. When the firm was hired to analyze an inventors flicker-free motion picture system, they became intrigued with the art and science of filmmaking, particularly color motion picture processes, leading to the incorporation of Technicolor in 1915. Most of Technicolors early patents were taken out by Comstock and Wescott, while Kalmus served primarily as the companys president and chief executive officer.Herbert Kalmus was married to Natalie Kalmus, whose name appears as color coordinator in the credits of virtually every live-action Technicolor feature released from 1934 to 1949. Although they divorced in 1922 after twenty years of marriage, they continued to live together, appearing as husband and wife, until 1944. He married Eleanore King in 1949.He has a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California.Kalmus Beach in Hyannis, Massachusetts, is also named after him.[edit] External linksBrief biography of Herbert KalmusKalmus v. Kalmus, 1950.Kalmus v. Kalmus, 1951.Find-a-grave for Herbert Kalmus[edit] References^ U.S. Census, 1910, State of Massachusetts, County of Suffolk, enumeration district 1647, p. 8-B, family 180.^ Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2009.^ Ancestry.com. California Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000.^ Kalmus v. Kalmus, 1950.^ Film Magnate Weds, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 1949, p. 37.PersondataNameKalmus, HerbertAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthNovember 9, 1881Place of birthChelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.Date of deathJuly 11, 1963Place of deathLos Angeles, California, U.S.Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_KalmusCategories: 1881 births | 1963 deaths | Cinema pioneersHidden categories: Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable version This page was last modified on 10 September 2010 at 00:20.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();