RayPA
Ignore It (It'll go away)
Not sure if this was posted already, but here's a nice YT production that might get you misty eyed.
Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test - Gorgeous
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Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test - Gorgeous
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xayraa33
rangefinder user and fancier
It was great to see a young Zsa Zsa Gabor at the beginning of that video.
paulfish4570
Veteran
The third girl (with the little boy) was gorgeous.
That bit of film should looped in MOMA for the next 88 years ...
That bit of film should looped in MOMA for the next 88 years ...
umcelinho
Marcelo
absolutely fantastic.
colyn
ישו משיח
I've still got 6 rolls of Kchrome in the refer. After watching the video I guess I'll have to shoot a couple this weekend..
RayPA
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kdemas
Enjoy Life.
Ray- Very very cool. Thanks for posting!
dcsang
Canadian & Not A Dentist
That truly is beautiful... the colour seems so "real" - not saturated punched up type colour.. (and ya.. I know that it was the 1920's so I shouldn't expect saturated punched up stuff) but it just looks like this could have been yesterday..
Dave
Dave
PKR
Veteran
Kodachrome F
Kodachrome F
An old one.. well no photo. maybe the site is being updated?
Kodachrome F
An old one.. well no photo. maybe the site is being updated?
Pirate
Guitar playing Fotografer
"Originally Posted by paulfish4570 
The third girl (with the little boy) was gorgeous.
That bit of film should looped in MOMA for the next 88 years ..."
"I agree. I thought that sequence was stunning. "
I think she looked like Stevie Nicks. Very beautiful indeed.
Anyone know what music piece that was with the video? I like that and would love to try it out on guitar.
The third girl (with the little boy) was gorgeous.
That bit of film should looped in MOMA for the next 88 years ..."
"I agree. I thought that sequence was stunning. "
I think she looked like Stevie Nicks. Very beautiful indeed.
Anyone know what music piece that was with the video? I like that and would love to try it out on guitar.
lynnb
Veteran
That was beautiful. Thanks for the link!
I still have family silent movies from the 1940s-50s taken on Kodachrome with a spring-wound Kodak 16mm single sprocket movie camera (which I also still own). Haven't watched them for a decade or more, but a look at the spools shows the film is as good - and beautiful - as the day it was shot. I would love to digitise it - any suggestions? I'm in Sydney.
I still have family silent movies from the 1940s-50s taken on Kodachrome with a spring-wound Kodak 16mm single sprocket movie camera (which I also still own). Haven't watched them for a decade or more, but a look at the spools shows the film is as good - and beautiful - as the day it was shot. I would love to digitise it - any suggestions? I'm in Sydney.
Dwig
Well-known
Beautiful images. Its quite surprising how well this 2-color process worked, particularily with skin tones.
This Kodachrome process is not actually related to the "modern" Kodachrome process invented by Godowsky & Mannes in the early 30's. While these two amateur inventors (they were professional musicians) did patent several processes in the '20s (at least one as early as 1924), they didn't join Kodak and begin the development of their tri-pak integrated color film concept until 1930. The Kodachrome that resulted from this development relied on discoveries Kodak didn't make until 1928, though it recycled the name of the earlier process.
The early 2 color Kodachrome was introduced comercially in 1914 as a still camera process. It involved two B&W images exposed separately on two different plates. The plates were processed and dyed individually and then laminated emulsion to emulsion to create a color positive transparency. Being a two color process it was unable to reproduce blue at all, though it did well with skin tones and some greens. The movie test from the early '20's is an experimental movie derivative of this two film process and it more a relative of the 2 color and later 3 color Technicolor processes than it is a relative of what we know as Kodachrome.
This Kodachrome process is not actually related to the "modern" Kodachrome process invented by Godowsky & Mannes in the early 30's. While these two amateur inventors (they were professional musicians) did patent several processes in the '20s (at least one as early as 1924), they didn't join Kodak and begin the development of their tri-pak integrated color film concept until 1930. The Kodachrome that resulted from this development relied on discoveries Kodak didn't make until 1928, though it recycled the name of the earlier process.
The early 2 color Kodachrome was introduced comercially in 1914 as a still camera process. It involved two B&W images exposed separately on two different plates. The plates were processed and dyed individually and then laminated emulsion to emulsion to create a color positive transparency. Being a two color process it was unable to reproduce blue at all, though it did well with skin tones and some greens. The movie test from the early '20's is an experimental movie derivative of this two film process and it more a relative of the 2 color and later 3 color Technicolor processes than it is a relative of what we know as Kodachrome.
K14
Well-known
Beautiful! Depressing in a way, it started here and now will end this year.
I guess you can call us fortunate that we were part of this wonderful era.
Cheers!
Gary
I guess you can call us fortunate that we were part of this wonderful era.
Cheers!
Gary
RayPA
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I think that's part of the beauty, really.
You can get your fill of vintage Kodachrome at my favorite photo site, Shorpy.com. It's a great place to see hi-res scans of vintage negatives and transparencies. They also provide some background information on the images. Lot's of war stuff, industrial/factory stuff, and family stuff. I got hooked on the site when I saw the hi-res scans of old 4x5 Kodachromes (several pages starting here). Check out this.
Great bookmark.
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Uncle Fester
Well-known
Thanks for posting this one Ray
charjohncarter
Veteran
Absolutely great, this was a little more promiscuous than later (50-60s) ads from Kodak. My father-in-law used KodaChrome in the 30s, and I have them. Here is one but still:
I loved that stuff.
I loved that stuff.
Dwig
Well-known
The process used in the film in the OP's post died over 80 years ago, well before the Kodachrome that we a morning today was born. While the two processes share the same basic name, they are otherwise totally unrelated other than both bearing the Kodak brand and both being color processes.
FPjohn
Well-known
A bit reminiscent of Agfa's film colours rather than the later Kodachrome?
Splendid, thanks for the post.
Yours
FPJ
Splendid, thanks for the post.
Yours
FPJ
