Director Georges Melies hired dozens of female artists to painstakingly hand paint individual film frames of his 1902 classic A Trip to the Moon using tiny brushes to achieve an…

Before Instagram filters, coloring a movie required a literal sweatshop of artists squinting through magnifying glasses. Silent film tinting wasn't just an artistic choice; it was an excruciating feat of manual labor, proving that filmmakers have been torturing their post-production departments since the literal dawn of the medium.