color films made in WWII, which of course ended in 1945.
And of course, Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, both made in 1939, were filmed in color.
I saw Oz on TV as a youth, and remember many years later seeing it on a color TV, and imagined that it had been “colorized.” I thought it was mildly blasphemous, and now I find out the color was original ...