In the early years of Three-Color Technicolor production, several films foregrounded color's sensuous experience by focusing on food. These shorts turn the long-held bias against color as superficial and empty into a point of celebration by associating the visual with the culinary pleasures of ice-cream, cookies, cakes, and chocolate bunnies. This short essay offers formal analysis with reference to classical film and color theories to speculate on the synesthetic potentials of color and its relationship to taste.
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