Timeline of Historical Colors in Photography and Film

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Kodak Ektachrome 400X Professional Film

ca. 1992
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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: chromogenic monopack, reversal
Kodak Ektachrome 400X Professional Film is a color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 400, it is designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash.

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Condax-Dytrol

ca. 1940
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Louis M. Condax, Condax-Speck, Inc., New York, Robert P. Speck
Subtractive 3 color: dye imbibition process, still photography
“Around 1940, Condax-Speck, Inc., of New York started to market dyes and mordant for the Condax-Dytrol system of dye imbibition printing (Fig. 4.19). The system, developed by company owners Louis M. Condax (1897–1971) and Robert P. Speck, ...

Kodak Professional Supra Films

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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: chromogenic monopack, still photography
Kodak Professional Supra is a product line of professional color negative films for commercial photography, designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. The line includes films of different speeds: Supra 100 (ISO 100), Supra 200 (ISO ...

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Raylo

ca. 1922
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Hiram Codd Joseph Deeks (American Raylo Corporation)
Subtractive 3 color: pigment process, still photography
“Raylo was a material developed by Hiram Codd Joseph Deeks (1880−1952) of the American Raylo Corporation, New York. It was introduced in 1922 for a printing service for users of the Raylo Camera, a one-shot camera that made three negatives ...

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Kodachrome used for duplication

[1964]

Finlay Positive Color Screen / Finlaychrome

ca. 1933
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Clare L. Finlay
Additive 3 color: regular mosaic screen, combined system, still photography and film
“The launching of a combined version of the product called Finlaychrome was announced in 1931 but was still unavailable three years later; it is unclear if it was ever marketed.28 Instead, it seems that the company produced a viewing screen ...

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Autotype Dyebro

ca. 1929
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Owen Wheeler, Autotype Company
Subtractive 3 color: dye imbibition process, still photography
“Introduced around the same time as Colorsnap and Uvatype, Autotype Dyebro combined the three-color carbro and dye imbibition processes. The method was invented by Owen Wheeler (1859–1932) and commercialized by the Autotype Company in about ...

Projection light

Theory

Fujichrome 64T Type II Professional [RTP II]

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Fujifilm Corporation
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Japan
Subtractive 3 color: chromogenic monopack, reversal, 35 mm
Fujichrome 64T Type II Professional [RTP II] is a tungsten-type color reversal film with a speed of ISO 64 by the Fujifilm Corporation. It is no longer in production.

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Fuji Dyecolor

ca. 1975
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(Fuji Photo Film Company)
Subtractive 3 color: dye imbibition process, still photography
“Around 1975, Fuji Photo Film Company introduced Fuji Dyecolor, a dye imbibition printing service available only in Japan. A feature of the process was that the transfer of the dyes was done automatically in a special rotary machine developed ...

Kodak Professional Elite Chrome Extra Color 100 Film

ca. 1994
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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: chromogenic monopack, reversal
Kodak Professional Elite Chrome Extra Color 100 Film is a color reversal film from Kodak’s Elite Chrome product line. With an ISO speed of 100, it is designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash.

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Belcolor

ca. 1935
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George Murphy
Subtractive 3 color: pigment process, still photography
“Introduced in the mid-1930s by George Murphy, Inc., of New York City, Belcolor was considered one of the simplest ways to obtain color transparencies, as it required no special equipment or expert technique and could be used successfully ...

Kodak Ektachrome 320T Professional Film

ca. 1992
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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: chromogenic monopack, reversal, 35 mm
Kodak Ektachrome 320T Professional Film is a color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 320, it is balanced for exposure with tungsten illumination.

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Kodak Professional Ektapress Films

ca. 1988
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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: chromogenic monopack, still photography
Kodak Professional Ektapress is a product line of professional color negative films for 35 mm photography that is designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. The line comprises three films of different speeds: PJ100 (ISO 100), PJ400 (ISO ...

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Kodak Pro 100T Film / PRT

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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: chromogenic monopack, still photography
Kodak Pro 100T Film [PRT] is a tungsten-balanced color negative film. With an ISO speed of 100, it is designed for exposure under tungsten lighting (3200 K). It replaced Kodak Vericolor II Professional Film [VPL], and its successor is Kodak ...

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Kodak Ektachrome P1600 Professional Film

ca. 1992
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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: chromogenic monopack, reversal, 35 mm
Kodak Ektachrome P1600 Professional Film is a daylight-balanced color reversal film designed for push processing. Its optimal effective speed is EI 1600, achieved through a two-stop push with Process E-6P.

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Kingston Process

191?
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Arthur Kingston
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England
Additive three color process: rotary filters
Three black-and-white color separations were printed consecutively on one film strip and projected through the corresponding color filters, thus combining to one color image on screen.

Trichromatic vision

1802
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Thomas Young
Theory: Color vision
Theory of trichromatic vision proposed by Thomas Young.

Heliochromy direct positive

1855
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Claude Félix Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor
Direct color photography: still photography

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Color theory

1861
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James Clerk Maxwell
Additive 3 color: Additive 3 color, still photography
“In a lecture on the theory of three primary colors, given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on May 17, 1861, Maxwell presented the first demonstration of a photograph in color. According to the records of that meeting (Maxwell, 1890c, ...

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Heliochromy color separation

1869
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Louis Ducos de Hauron
Subtractive 3 color: assembly process, pigment process, still photography
“Carbon printing was originally a monochrome process. It was invented and patented by Alphonse Poitevin (1819–82) in 1855 and was the first practical printing method with pigments. After Poitevin, the carbon process was patented extensively ...

Proposal of a variety of processes of three-color photography

1869
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Louis Ducos du Hauron
Theory: still photography
“Louis Ducos du Hauron is reported to have become interested in the reproduction of colors by photography in 1859, when he was twentyone years old (Potonniée, 1939). In 1862 he submitted to a friend of his family, M. Lelut, a paper embodying ...

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Proposal of a variety of processes of three-color photography

1869
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Charles Cros
Theory
Description of a variety of color processes, even for images in motion by the use of a rotary shutter.

Orthochromatic stock

1873
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Hermann Wilhelm Vogel
b/w photography: orthochromatic b/w stock, still photography
“In 1873 Dr Vogel discovered that by adding dyes to the sensitive material, its sensitivity could be extended, so that it would record green as well as blue. The new ‘orthochromatic’ plates were available commercially from 1882. The ...

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Dye Imbibition Process

1875
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Ernest Edwards

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Hydrotypie / Hydrotype

1880
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Charles Cros
Subtractive 3 color: dye transfer, still photography and film
“In the imbibition process, a dye image is transferred from a gelatin relief image to a receiving layer made either of paper or film. Charles Cros described this method of ‘hydrotypie’ transfer printing in 1880 and suggested it ...

Sensitizing theory

1885
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Hermann Wilhelm Vogel
Color theory
“Dr. H. W. Vogel, the discoverer of colour sensitizers, made three-colour photography possible, and has been the first to recognise the relation between colour sensitiveness of plate and printing colour in the following principle made known in ...

Silver dye-bleach

1889
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Raphael E. Liesegang
Subtractive 3 color: Dye-bleach
“Probably the first use of the catalytic property of silver was in 1889, when E. Howard Farmer disclosed the action of a silver image upon strong dichromate solutions (Eng. P. 17773/89). When a plate or film, containing a silver image, is immersed ...

Lippmann

1891
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Gabriel Lippmann
Direct color photography: interference, still photography
“In 1891, Professor Gabriel Lippmann demonstrated to the French Académie des Sciences interference colour photographs of the spectrum and of stained glass windows, taken by a modification of Wiener’s method. An exceedingly fine grained, ...

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Hand coloring

1895
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(technique inherited from lantern slides)
Applied colors: Manual application

Coloring of individual frames by the use of very fine brushes. The process was previously applied to lantern slides. Any water based translucent dye was suited for the process, most often the coloring was done with acid dyes.

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