Spicer-Dufay
Description
For a description of Spicer-Dufay see detail page on Dufaycolor)
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Magnification 20x. Credit: photomicrograph by Silvana Konermann. Source: Eggert, John (1932): Kurzer Überblick über den Stand der Farbenkinematographie. Bericht über den VIII. Internationalen Kongress für wissenschaftliche und angewandte Photographie, Dresden 1931, pp. 214-222. Leipzig: J. A. Barth.
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Magnification 10x. Credit: photomicrograph by Silvana Konermann. Source: Eggert, John (1932): Kurzer Überblick über den Stand der Farbenkinematographie. Bericht über den VIII. Internationalen Kongress für wissenschaftliche und angewandte Photographie, Dresden 1931, pp. 214-222. Leipzig: J. A. Barth.
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Magnification 5x. Credit: photomicrograph by Silvana Konermann. Source: Eggert, John (1932): Kurzer Überblick über den Stand der Farbenkinematographie. Bericht über den VIII. Internationalen Kongress für wissenschaftliche und angewandte Photographie, Dresden 1931, pp. 214-222. Leipzig: J. A. Barth.
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Source: Eggert, John (1932): Kurzer Überblick über den Stand der Farbenkinematographie. In: Bericht über den VIII. Internationalen Kongress für wissenschaftliche und angewandte Photographie, Dresden 1931, pp. 214-222. Leipzig: J. A. Barth.
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Source: Coe, Brian (1981): The History of Movie Photography. Westfield, N.J.: Eastview Editions.
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Magnification of an image area. Source: Eggert, John (1932): Kurzer Überblick über den Stand der Farbenkinematographie. Bericht über den VIII. Internationalen Kongress für wissenschaftliche und angewandte Photographie, Dresden 1931, pp. 214-222. Leipzig: J. A. Barth.
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Source: Eggert, John (1932): Kurzer Überblick über den Stand der Farbenkinematographie. Bericht über den VIII. Internationalen Kongress für wissenschaftliche und angewandte Photographie, Dresden 1931, pp. 214-222. Leipzig: J. A. Barth.
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Original Technical Papers and Primary Sources
Thorne Baker, T. (1932): The Spicer-Dufay color film process. In: Photographic Journal, 72,109, pp. 109-117. View Quote
Secondary Sources
Alt, Dirk (2011): “Der Farbfilm marschiert!” Frühe Farbfilmverfahren und NS-Propaganda 1933-1945. München: Belleville, on pp. 39–40 View Quote and on p. 75. (in German) View Quote
Cauda, Ernesto (1938): Il cinema a colori. Quaderno mensile. Roma: Bianco e nero, anno II, nr. 11, on pp. 60–61 View Quote and on p. 61. (in Italian) View Quote
Coe, Brian (1978): Colour Photography. The First Hundred Years 1840-1940. London: Ash & Grant, pp. 72, 81.View Quote
Klein, Adrian Bernhard (Cornwell-Clyne) (1940): Colour Cinematography. Boston: American Photographic Pub. Co., pp. 22-23. View Quote
Nowotny, Robert A. (1983): The Way of All Flesh Tones. A History of Color Motion Picture Processes, 1895-1929. New York: Garland Pub., pp. 104-105. View Quote
(see also detail page on Dufaycolor)
Measurements
Absorbances measured with a multispectral imaging system from film areas with pure dyes. Credit: Giorgio Trumpy, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
See the specific sample from which the spectra were measured.
Absorbances measured with a multispectral imaging system from film areas with pure dyes. Credit: Giorgio Trumpy, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
Downloads
Thorne Baker, T. (1932): The Spicer-Dufay color film process. In: Photographic Journal, 72, 109, pp. 109-117.
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Patents
E.P. 279,139 (Hands, Henry James/Spicers Limited; filed April 21, 1926; granted Oct. 21, 1927)
Download PDFE.P. 281,803 (Hands, Henry James/Spicers Limited; filed Sept. 24, 1926; granted Dec. 15, 1927)
Download PDFE.P. 282,980 (Hands, Henry James/Spicers Limited; filed Dec. 29, 1926; granted Jan. 5, 1928)
Download PDFE.P. 287,635 (Hands, Henry James/Spicers Limited; filed Dec. 23, 1926; granted March 23, 1928)
Download PDFE.P. 294,008 (Hands, Henry James/Spicers Limited; filed Aug. 27, 1927; granted July 19, 1928)
Download PDFE.P. 301,439 (Hands, Henry James/Spicers Limited; filed Aug. 30, 1927; granted Nov. 30m 1928)
Download PDFE.P. 333,865 (Bonamico, Charles/Goldsmith, Dr. John Naish/Thorne Baker, Thomas; filed June 1, 1929; granted Aug. 21, 1930)
Download PDFE.P. 334,243 (Goldsmith, Dr. John Naish/Spicers Limited; filed May 30, 1929; granted Sept. 1, 1930)
Download PDFE.P. 334,265 (Bonamico, Charles/Goldsmith, Dr. John Naish/Thorne Baker, Thomas; filed Aug. 1, 1929; granted Sept. 1, 1930)
Download PDFE.P. 337,073 (Goldsmith, Dr. John Naish/Spicers Limited/Thorne Baker, Thomas; filed July 30, 1929; granted Oct. 30, 1930)
Download PDFE.P. 339,238 (Bonamico, Charles/Goldsmith, Dr. John Naish/Spicers Limited/Thorne Baker, Thomas; filed Aug. 1, 1929; granted Dec. 1, 1930)
Download PDFE.P. 377,286 (Bonamico, Charles/Wade, Harold/Spicers Limited; filed April 24, 1931; granted July 25, 1932)
Download PDFE.P. 401,719 (Bonamico, Charles/Grist, Ralph Alfred Sidney/Spicers Limited/Thorne Baker, Thomas; filed May 18, 1932; granted Nov. 20, 1933)
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Contemporary Reception
Anonymous (1931): New All-British Colour System. Spicer-Dufay Process Uses Non-flam Stock and Abnormally Rapid Emulsion. In: The Bioscope, 1287,LXXXVII, Jun., pp. iii–iv. View Quote
Anonymous (1931): Unburnable Colour Films. Revolutionary All-British Process. In: The Bioscope, 1286,LXXXVII, May, p. vi. View Quote
Anonymous (1932): Tonfilm in Farben. Fortschritte der Filmtechnik. In: Mein Film, 355, p. 8. (in German) View Quote
