A Colour Box (1935)
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A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye) is an abstract animation for a commercial by the British post GPO. Len Lye’s hand-painted film was then transferred to a Dufaycolor print. See further information on Screen Online.
Dufaycolor reversal colour positive.
Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photographs by Barbara Flueckiger.
Selected Analyses:
Herring, Robert (1935): Technicolossal. In: Life and Letters Today, 13, Sep., pp. 194–196, on pp. 195–196. View Quote
Horrocks, Roger (2001): Len Lye. A Biography. Auckland University Press., on pp. 137–140. View Quote
Kassel Siambani, Elena von (2009): Colour in the British Documentary Film Movement. From Colour Box (1935) to Western Approaches (1944). In: Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard (ed.): Cinéma et couleur. Paris: M. Houdiard, pp. 219–224, on p. 220. View Quote
Street, Sarah (2012): Colour Films in Britain. The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-55. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, on p. 41. View Quote
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsReversal Colour Positive. Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: A Colour Box (GB 1935, Len Lye).
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ShowHide detailsSource: Anne Fleming (2002): A Colour Box (Len Lye Recovered). In Roger Smither (ed.): This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Brussels: FIAF, 2002, pp. 123-125.
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ShowHide detailsAnne Fleming (2002): A Colour Box (Len Lye Recovered). In Roger Smither (ed.): This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film. Brussels: FIAF, 2002, pp. 123-125.
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ShowHide detailsYouTube video in very low resolution shows the restoration of A Colour Box. An Eastmancolor print wastaken from the hand painted original nitrate as described by Anne Fleming (2002), see field “Restoration” on this page.