Background
Kalmus, Herbert Thomas was born on November 9, 1881 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Benjamin G. and Ada Isabella (Gurney) Kalmus.
Kalmus, Herbert Thomas was born on November 9, 1881 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Benjamin G. and Ada Isabella (Gurney) Kalmus.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1904. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1906. East.D., Northeastern University, 1951.
Kalmus received a bachelor"s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904. The "Technical" 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Queen"s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
In 1912, Kalmus and fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Daniel Comstock formed Kalmus, Comstock, and Wescott, an industrial research and development firm, with mechanic West. Burton Wescott, who left the company in 1921.
When the firm was hired to analyze an inventor"s 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 Technicolor"s early patents were taken out by Comstock and Wescott, while Kalmus served primarily as the company"s president and chief executive officer
On July 23, 1902, Kalmus married Natalie (née Dunfee or Dunphy) Kalmus, whose name appears as "color coordinator" in the credits of virtually every live-action Technicolor feature released from 1934 to 1949. Kalmus" god-daughter (and later step-daughter), Cammie King, played the part of Bonnie Blue Butler in the film Gone With the Wind (1939).
The autobiography of Herbert Kalmus, Mr.
Technicolor (), was published in 1993. Kalmus has a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. Kalmus Beach in Hyannis, Massachusetts, is named after him.
Clubs: Masquers (Hollywood).
Married Natalie Mabelle Dunfee, July 23, 1902 (dlv. Married second Eleanore King, September 6, 1949.