Moulin Rouge (1952 film) . He received high praise not only for his performance, but for his willingness to have his legs strapped in such a manner simply to play a role. It was reported that John Huston asked cinematographer Oswald Morris to render the color scheme of the film to look "as if Toulouse-Lautrec had directed it". "Moulin Rouge" was shot in three-strip Technicolor. The Technicolor projection print is created by dye transfer from three primary-color gelatin matrices. This permits great flexibility in controlling the density, contrast, and saturation of the print. Huston asked Technicolor for a subdued palette, rather than the sometimes-gaudy
Alfred Choubrac poster artist of his time. His most famous poster is that of "Au Joyeux Moulin Rouge", based on the popular Parisian nightclub Moulin Rouge. The 1880s and 1890s were an intermediary period in the development of the poster in which its primary political function shifted to a primarily promotional one as advertising in the emerging consumer economy. In April 1891, under orders from the Minister of the Interior, the prefect of Paris, Henri-Auguste Lozé, seized and destroyed hundreds of posters considered to a violation of public decency. Many artists and their printers were charged. Several of Choubrac’s posters were prohibited