Kinemacolor
Kinemacolor was one of the first methods of making films in color. Previously, film frames were individually colored.
The British photographer George Albert Smith (1864–1959) developed Kinemacolor in 1906. The process works with 32 individual images per second, one of which is exposed alternately through a red filter and a green filter. This results in 16 individual images exposed through the red filter and 16 through the green filter. The change of the color filter is made possible by a rotating disk in front of the lens .
The method was evaluated by the American Charles Urban , who founded the Natural Color Kinematograph Company in 1909 and produced a large number of short and topical films. The climax of Kinemacolor's work was the epic report of the coronation ceremony of the British King George V in December 1911 in India: "The Delhi Durbar " / "With Our King and Queen through India".
Kinemacolor has been licensed in numerous European countries, in the USA and in Japan. Of the large number of films made mainly in Great Britain and the USA, only a few have survived today.
A further development was William Friese-Greene's Biocolour process , in which color filters are no longer required, as a red color gradation layer is applied to the front of the film and a green color gradation layer on the back.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of George Albert Smith , August 7, 2010
- ^ Charles Urban, Motion Picture Pioneer. ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Luke McKernan (Ed.): 'Something More than a Mere Picture Show' - Charles Urban and the Early Non-Fiction Film in Great Britain and America, 1897-1925. ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 2003.
literature
- Gert Koshofer: Color. The colors of the film. Volker Spiess, Berlin 1988, pp. 22-23.
Web links
- Kinemacolor on Timeline of Historical Film Colors. with many written sources and photographs of Kinemacolor copies.