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I've always found the story of color film development fascinating. It's a good way to learn how standards take place and beat out groupthink.

What's just as interesting are the competing color formats, and just how awful they were. The competing formats were all disgusting hacks compared to Technicolor, but Technicolor required an expensive filmmaking process. Technicolor won because it required no special projection equipment, and didn't have horrible flicker.

I even remember seeing a sample "standard" color film format that divided the frame up into three parts, one for each color. It just goes to show that standard formats usually don't go far when a proprietary format is so much better.

It just makes me wonder how long automakers are going to push their stupid charger connectors instead of adopting Tesla's elegant solution.