The cheap color film print stock made from the 1950s through the early 1980s was subject to dramatic color fade, in which only the magenta layer of emulsion remains intact. Tonight we’ll watch five reels of pink film from five different titles in the HFA’s collection, rarely screened because of their condition.  Some are familiar films usually notable for their use of color, and some are films you’ve never heard of and may never see again, except in this truncated, pink state. While the pink film represents failings in the technology of cinema, there is something compelling in the unplanned and unnatural look of these prints: the look of loss. Jacques Cousteau and his crew of the ship Calypso bring us back into living color as they explore the undersea depths with filmmaker Louis Malle (this is his first film) along for the ride. This film was the inspiration for Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic. This dye transfer Technicolor print shows the happier side of film technology during the period 1953-1977. Pricey three-color Technicolor prints reproduced the world’s colors for posterity. The inherently stable process of dye imbibition, an additive process, proved a boon for archives, as these prints didn’t fade.