Abstract
Study from the collective monograph Cinema Revisited, which was published within the Digital Restoration of Czech Film Heritage project. The author has focused on the introduction of colour film under the conditions of nationalized cinematography in the 1940s and 1950s.
She monitors the general conditions of its onset and its gradual expansion, the problems which the domestic film industry faced in connection with the political direction of post-war Czechoslovakia, and last, but not least, the ways in which the advent of colour film affected various components of cinema. At the same time, using several specific examples, she tries to explain how such broader historical context can be reflected as far as at the aesthetic level and in the distinctive character of individual films, and to demonstrate the approach to film as a bearer of historical evidence of the time of its inception.