The Black Pirate in 4K
The Black Pirate in 4K
The Black Pirate employed Technicolor II, an early two-color process that took two filmstrips, one dyed orange-red and the other dyed blue-green, and cemented them together for projection. Douglas Fairbanks—who portrays a nobleman posing as the “Black Pirate” to seek justice for his father’s death—took a daring and adventurous route by designing the production for color cinematography in the 1920s. Bringing added dimension to the remarkable action scenes, Fairbanks ultimately realized his childhood admiration for pirate stories through innovative filmmaking of the silent era.
DIRECTED BY: Albert Parker. WRITTEN BY: Douglas Fairbanks, Jack Cunningham. WITH: Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp. 1926. 100 min. USA. Technicolor. Silent. 4K DCP. Restored by The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation in cooperation with the British Film Institute. Funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Special thanks to Alexander Payne.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
Explore our current quarterly print Film Calendar and browse the archive.
Theater accessibility accommodations available upon request. Learn more about our accessibility initiatives.
Back to Main Series
