Earliest known Color Film from 1902 Discovered

[CameraQuest]

Story here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19423951

London's Edward Raymond Turner patented his colour process on 22 March 1899.

Stephen

 

[Tijmendal]

Oh my!
That is crazy! The colors look really good too! Wow!
I had never thought that existed back then. Honestly, I didn't think color film existed till the 30's...😱

 

[Vincent.G]

A very interesting discovery. 🙂

 

[david.elliott]

Thank you for the link! Great story.

 

[Photo_Smith]

Oh my!
That is crazy! The colors look really good too! Wow!
I had never thought that existed back then. Honestly, I didn't think color film existed till the 30's...😱

Great story. I collect colour images from pre first war here are some links people who like early colour film.

From 1910:
http://photo-utopia.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/early-colour-processes-autochrome.html

And from WWI
http://photo-utopia.blogspot.co.uk/2008_11_02_archive.html

 

[John Lawrence]

Interesting stuff.


John

 

[sevo]

Honestly, I didn't think color film existed till the 30's...😱

Marketing of three layer colour film types (predecessors of the currently used processes) started in 1936, by Agfa and, months later, Kodak. But colour photography is much older than that.

Direct colour (Autochrome process) plates were already marketed from 1907 on - earlier experimental raster plate processes preceded them by some 15-20 years.

Two- and later three-filter separation colour photography (the still version of the process used here) started in the 1860s with the discovery of sensitizers that extended the colour response of wet plates beyond blue. But for almost fifty years of colour photography, the results weren't directly visible and short of lithography there was no print process, so that colour photography kept stuck in the labs, having the same application as and no visible or economical advantage over artistically coloured lithographies made off black and white photographs.

That Turner film preceded Kinemacolor, another similar colour wheel process that actually made it into the cinemas of the period, by a mere seven years. So it is not quite that tremendously first as it may seem when you don't know the long history of colour before Agfa/Kodak...