Pathécolor
Pathécolor is a stencil coloring process that was patented by the Pathé Frères company in 1905 . Several colors were applied simultaneously to a black and white film strip using stencils and ink rollers. Due to the fine and exact coloring, the manufacturer advertised the process as being particularly "true to life", so that numerous nature films were made in Pathécolor. In addition, the historical-looking costume films of the Film d'Art were colored to give them an additional visual value, such as Salomé (1910).
The Pathécolor films were made until around the middle of the 1910s. Most famous are La Poule aux Oeufs d'Or (1905, Gaston Velle), Le Pied de Mouton (1907, Albert Capellani ) and La Chenille de la Carotte (1911, Pathé). After that, the technology became increasingly unprofitable and disappeared. The process was later called Pathéchrome and can still be proven in individual cases until the 1920s.
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literature
- Nicola Mazzanti: Colors, audiences, and (dis) continuity in the 'cinema of the second period' . In: Film History 21.1, 2009, pp. 67-93.
- Jacques Kermabon (ed.): Manifestation Pathé, Premiere Empire du Cinema . Paris: Center Georges Pompidou 1994.
- Paolo Cherchi Usai: Silent Cinema . London: BFI 2000.