Colorsnap, Colorol
Description
“In 1929 the London firm Colour Snapshots Limited introduced Colorsnap, a printing service based on the dye imbibition process for a tripack roll film called Colorsnap and manufactured by Ilford Ltd. (Monopolies Commission 1966).11 The tripack system was so unreliable that the company employed people to hand-color monochrome prints from the sharpest of the three negatives. Colorsnap prints were available for a very short time, until December 1929 (Coe 1978: 116) (Fig. 4.11). In 1930 the process was licensed in the United States by Agfa-Ansco, which sold the film and provided a printing service under the name Colorol; by 1934 the product had been discontinued.”
(Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, on pp. 136–137.)
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 137.
Secondary Sources
Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, on pp. 136–137. View Quote
