Had a snapshot of the history of color cinematography been taken in the early days of the 1950s, it would have shown that Ansco Color, a negative-positive color system brought to market by General Aniline and Film, was one of the two product lines on track to end the supremacy of Technicolor. The company that became Ansco Photo Products, Inc., was founded in 1842 as E. Anthony & Company. After a merger with the camera maker Scovill Manufacturing, it became the Anthony & Scovill Company (hence Ansco) on December 23, 1901. Ansco was located in Binghamton, New York, where Anthony had been manufacturing photographic printmaking paper (Hannavy 2008). After Hannibal Goodwin’s death in a traffic accident in 1900, Ansco acquired his USP 610,861, Photographic Pellicle and Process of Producing Same, granted September 13, 1898, describing the manufacture of cellulose nitrate base. In 1905 Ansco prevailed against Eastman Kodak in an infringement suit based on its ownership of Goodwin’s patent, as described in Chap. 8 (Brayer 2011). Events in Germany were to have a major impact on Ansco’s corporate fate after it was absorbed into Agfa, or Aktiengesellschaft fur Anilinfabrikation (Aniline Manufacturing Corporation), founded in Berlin in 1867 as a dye manufacturer. Agfa began making photographic products in 1898 and in 1925 became part of the conglomerate IG Farben, or Interessens-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG (Amalgamated Color Company Corp.), in a consolidation that involved several other German chemical companies.