one of the earliest colour films bought at flea market

[gr82bart]

What an amazing find

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/film-found-colour-quebec-1.3505012

Regards, Art

 

[Nodda Duma]

That's very cool. Thank you for sharing.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

The colors have lasted well over all this time. I'm impressed.

Funny thing though: because it's in color, it's a little bit hard for me to grasp that it's 1929. I expect the pre-1950 world to be black and white.

 

[cowanw]

Of course it is in Black and White; The article is very clear on that. It is just falsely presented as colour in the projection stage.

 

[Kyle M.]

The colors have lasted well over all this time. I'm impressed.

Funny thing though: because it's in color, it's a little bit hard for me to grasp that it's 1929. I expect the pre-1950 world to be black and white.[/Kodachrome was released in 1935, the Sanger Shepherd method of color photography came about circa 1900, and there were several processes for creating color photos earlier than that. "A Trip to the Moon" is a 1902 French silent movie that was originally released in both B&W and color, with the film stock itself being hand painted.

The colors have lasted well over all this time. I'm impressed.

Funny thing though: because it's in color, it's a little bit hard for me to grasp that it's 1929. I expect the pre-1950 world to be black and white.

Kodachrome was released in 1935, the Sanger Shepherd method of color photography came about circa 1900, and there were several processes for creating color photos earlier than that. "A Trip to the Moon" is a 1902 French silent movie that was originally released in both B&W and color, with the film stock itself being hand painted.

 

[cowanw]

As mentioned in the article the process was Kodacolor, on the market in 1928. Wiki has a nice article which describes the image and fits well with the News article movie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodacolor_(filmmaking)

This site has excellent examples of old processes

http://zauberklang.ch/filmcolors/search/kodacolor

Here is the original paper. How come PhotoEngineers name isn't on it?

Capstaff, J. G. and Seymour, M.W. (1928): The Kodacolor Process for Amateur Color Cinematography. In: Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, 12, pp. 940—947.

 

[bvy]

Of course it is in Black and White; The article is very clear on that. It is just falsely presented as colour in the projection stage.

Nothing false about it. I certainly don't feel cheated when I watch a three strip Technicolor film!

 

[cowanw]

Well, I think Theo and I were writing in Humour.
I like Technicolor too but this is not that, as Technicolor was not an amateur process

 

[Prof_Pixel]

The colors have lasted well over all this time. I'm impressed.

That's because the colors aren't in/on the film - they're from a filter used during projection.

 

[benjiboy]

It's a chastening thought I had that everyone depicted in these images even the kids are now dead

 

[pdeeh]

IS it being so cheerful that keeps you going, benjiboy?

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Of course it is in Black and White; The article is very clear on that. It is just falsely presented as colour in the projection stage.

What I mean is, despite The Wizard of Oz or even paintings by Monet and other artists, the typical image we've been presented of the pre-1950 world is a predominantly black-and-white world. Consequently, there's an almost automatic mental B&W image of pre-1950 events.

Hindenberg. Happened in B&W, didn't it?

Well, not really, but that's how I visualize it.

That's because the colors aren't in/on the film - they're from a filter used during projection.

Oh - I didn't realize that. Oops.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

It's a chastening thought I had that everyone depicted in these images even the kids are now dead

The kids could be in their late 80's today maybe.

 

[Sirius Glass]

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Excellent.

 

[falotico]

This is a real color process and the final image is a true representation of the natural color of the scene. The clear plastic support of the film is molded into multiple rows of tiny lenses. Think of each of these lenses as a pixel. The camera has a filter in front of its main lens which is composed of three vertical stripes in the primary colors: red green and blue. Each lens of the pixel projects an image of these three stripes on to the emulsion. If the element of the scene is mostly red, then the red stripe is illuminated and the film is exposed under that stripe of the pixel. The emulsion is developed as a reversal and when projected through a projector with a striped color filter the color values are reassembled and an additive image of the scene is reproduced. Basically the Kodacolor system was a dodge to allow a black and white emulsion capture a color scene.

 

[studiocarter]

4K film transfer gas