When the screen bursts into colour

Start with The Wizard of Oz, where colour arrives as a threshold you can feel: the familiar world gives way to something suddenly heightened. It makes the idea of colour as an event immediate, not technical. Then step back to A Trip to the Moon, whose smaller, handmade wonder lets colour feel playful and precious rather than seamless. The reverse journey is the point. Instead of tracing a tidy march toward realism, it reveals two different kinds of enchantment — one expansive, one miniature. Seen together, they explain why Monocurator treats colour as an accent: rare enough to notice, warm enough to remember.