Rainbow is a
1996 family adventure film directed by
Bob Hoskins, written by Ashley Sidaway and Robert Sidaway and starring
Bob Hoskins,
Terry Finn,
Jacob Tierney,
Saul Rubinek and
Dan Aykroyd. The story concerns four children and a dog whose journey in a magical rainbow results in an adventure that finds them on a race against time to save the world.
From a technical standpoint, it was also the world's first all digital feature film to be created using digital recording technology for both picture and sound.
Shot entirely with Sony's first Solid State Electronic Cinematography cameras and featuring over 35 minutes of digital image processing and visual effects, all post production, sound effects, editing and scoring were completed digitally.