Timeline of Historical Colors in Photography and Film

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Uto Paper 1906–1911, after 1911 Utocolor Paper, after 1912 Utocolor-Rapid-Paper

1906
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John Henry Smith, Waldemar Merckens (Utocolor Company)
Subtractive 3 color: dye destruction process, bleach-out, still photography
“In 1906 John Henry Smith (1860–1917) and Waldemar Merckens commercially introduced a collodion paper impregnated with fugitive yellow, magenta, and cyan dyes. They called it Uto paper, after a range of mountains near Zurich (Johnson 1917: ...

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Uvatype

1929
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Arthur Traube (Uvachrome)
Subtractive 3 color: dye imbibition process, still photography
“Uvatype was yet another variation of the dye imbibition process, introduced by the Uvachrome Company of Germany in 1929 (Fig. 4.12). Its inventor, the German chemist Arthur Traube, worked diligently to improve the then-available imbibition ...

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Vericolor

1933
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(Vericolor Inc.)
Subtractive 2 color: unknown

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Versicolor-Dufay

1917
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Louis Dufay (Versicolor)
Additive 3 color: line screen plate, still photography and film
“The most successful of all the screen processes was the one initiated by Louis Dufay. Today the product is known as Dufaycolor, but it was first introduced about 1910 as the Dioptichrome plate. The first Dufay patents were assigned to an ...

Vitacolor

1930
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(Vitacolor Company)
Subtractive 2 color: Single coated

Vivex

1928
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Dr. Douglas Arthur Spencer (Color Photographs Limited of London)
Subtractive 3 color: pigment process, still photography
“Vivex prints were introduced by Color Photographs Limited of London in 1928. One of the most important features of this printing method, invented by Douglas Arthur Spencer (1902–1980), was the introduction in 1929 of cellophane, instead of ...

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Warner-Powrie

1924
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John H. Powrie
Additive 3 color: Line screen
“The Warner-Powrie process patented in 1905 was the earliest commercial process using a screen made with bichromated colloid. A glass plate was thinly coated with bichromated gelatin or fish glue and exposed to light through a screen having ...

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Wolff-Heide

1924
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Emil Wolff-Heide
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Germany
additive three-color: Integrated filters and rotary filter
Much like many other additive processes, the Wolff-Heide system was based on three black and white color separations printed consecutively on one film strip and projected through a rotary filter attached to the projector. However, the biggest ...

Worel’s bleach-out process

1899
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Karl Worel
Subtractive 3 color: dye destruction process, bleach-out, still photography

Zoechrome

1920
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T.A. Mills
Subtractive 3 color: Multi-layer printing

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