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Not to be confused with the Eastman Color Print Film 5381 from 1950.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2026): Technical Data, Color Print Film. Kodak Vision, Color Print Film 2383 / 3383 (H-1-2383), 03.2026, p. 5.
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Eastman Kodak Company (1998): Technical Data, Color Print Film. Kodak Vision, Premier Color Print Film / 2393 (H-1-2393t), 09.1998, p. 5.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2022): Technical Data, Color Negative Film. Kodak Vision3 500T, Color Negative Film 5219 / 7219 (H-1-5219), 03.2022, p. 4.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2022): Technical Data, Color Negative Film. Kodak Vision3 250D, Color Negative Film 5207 / 7207 (H-1-5207), 03.2022, p. 4.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2026): Technical Data, Color Negative Film. Kodak Vision3 50D, Color Negative Film 5203 / 7203 (H-1-5203), 03.2026, p. 4.
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“In 1941 Kodak introduced a printing service for wallet-size Minicolor prints on a white opaque support of pigmented acetate made from 35mm transparencies (Fig. 5.6). A similar product called Kotavachrome was designed for larger prints made ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 165.
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“Kodak Instant Print Film PR-10 was based on a dye release system that used ballasted preformed dyes and reversal emulsion instead of dye developers and negative emulsion. Processing started when the film passed between pressure rollers that ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 242.
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“In 1981 Eastman Kodak introduced an innovative product, Ektaflex PCT (Photo Color Transfer), which allowed photographers to instantly print enlarged negatives or transparencies. Up to this time only in-camera picture taking had been possible ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 246.
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“Between 1934 and 1941 Eastman Kodak developed a silver dye-bleach printing material called Azochrome. In 1941 it announced the launching of Azochrome but held back the product at the onset of World War II. After the war, the company decided to ...
“Brand name for various reversal films from Eastman Kodak (full name: Eastman Ektachrome) based on the Eastman Colour process.
a) Ektachrome Commercial is a 16 mm film with flat gradation manufactured since 1958 for recordings from which ...
Kodak Ektachrome 160T Professional Film is a color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 160, it is designed for exposure with tungsten illumination (3200 K).
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Eastman Kodak Company (2007): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Ektachrome 160T Professional Film / EPT (E-144), 05.2007, p. 5.
- Cross section of Ektachrome 160T Professional, processed, f4, 20x, ws-scaled, from late 1970s. Credit: Joana Santos Lima da Silva.
- Cross section of Ektachrome 160T Professional, processed, f4, 50x, ws-scaled, from late 1970s. Credit: Joana Santos Lima da Silva.
- Cross section of Ektachrome 160T Professional, unprocessed, f4, 20x, ws-scaled, from late 1970s. Credit: Joana Santos Lima da Silva.
- Cross section of Ektachrome 160T Professional, unprocessed, f4, 50x, ws-scaled, from late 1970s. Credit: Joana Santos Lima da Silva.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2026): Technical Data, Color Negative Film. Kodak Vision3 200T, Color Negative Film 5213 / 7213 (H-1-5213), 03.2026, p. 4.
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Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100G is a fine-grain color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 100, it is ideal for shooting in daylight or with an electronic flash. It has medium color saturation and a neutral color balance.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2009): Technische Daten, Farbumkehrfilm. Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100G und E100GX (E-4024), 10.2009, p. 5.
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Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100GX is a fine-grain color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 100, it is ideal for shooting in daylight or with an electronic flash. It has medium color saturation and a warm color balance (the “X” stands ...
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Eastman Kodak Company (2009): Technische Daten, Farbumkehrfilm. Kodak Professional Ektachrome E100G und E100GX (E-4024), 10.2009, p. 5.
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Kodak Ektachrome 100 Plus Professional Film is a fine-grain color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 100, it is designed for use in daylight or with electronic flash. It combines high color saturation with dependable neutral tones.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2007): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Ektachrome 100 Plus Professional Film (E-113), 07.2007, p. 5.
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Kodak Ektachrome 64T Professional Film is a color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 64, it is designed for exposure with tungsten illumination (3200 K).
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Eastman Kodak Company (2007): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Ektachrome 64T Professional Film (E-130), 07.2007, p. 5.
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Kodak Ektachrome 100 Professional Film is a daylight-balanced color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 100, it is intended for exposure with daylight or electronic flash.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2007): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Ektachrome 100 Professional Film (E-27), 07.2007, p. 5.
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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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Eastman Kodak Company (2005): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Professional Elite Chrome Extra Color 100 Film (E-126E), 04.2005, p. 5.
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Kodak Ektachrome 100D Color Reversal Film 5294/7294 is a color reversal motion picture camera film. With an ISO speed of 100, it is designed for use in daylight (5500 K).
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Eastman Kodak Company (2024): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Ektachrome 100D. Color Reversal Film 5294 / 7294(H-1-5294), 05.2024, p. 3.
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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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Eastman Kodak Company (2007): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Ektachrome 320T Professional Film (E-145), 05.2007, p. 4.
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Kodak Professional Ektachrome Film E100VS is a daylight-balanced color reversal film with an ISO speed of 100.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2005): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Professional Ektachrome Film E100VS (E-163), 09.2005, p. 5.
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Kodak Ektachrome 64 Professional Film is a color reversal film with an ISO speed of 64. It is designed for use with either daylight or electronic flash.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2005): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Ektachrome 64 Professional Film (E-8), 09.2005, p. 5.
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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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Eastman Kodak Company (2007): Technical Data, Color Transparency Film. Kodak Ektachrome P1600 Professional Film (E-147), 05.2007, p. 5.
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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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Eastman Kodak Company (2007): Technical Data, Color Transparency Film. Kodak Ektachrome 400X Professional Film (E-161), 09.2005, p. 5.
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Kodak Professional Ektachrome Film E200 is a daylight-balanced color reversal film. With an ISO speed of 200, it is designed for use with either daylight or electronic flash. It can be push-processed to an exposure index (EI) of 800.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2005): Technical Data, Color Transparency Film. Kodak Professional Ektachrome Film E200 (E-28), 09.2005, p. 5.
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Kodak Professional Elite Chrome 200 Film is a daylight-balanced color reversal film from Kodak’s Elite Chrome product line. With an ISO speed of 200, it is designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2005): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Professional Elite Chrome 200 Film, 04.2005, p. 4.
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Kodak Professional Elite Chrome 100 film is a daylight-balanced color reversal film from the Elite Chrome product line. With an ISO speed of 100, it is designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. Its RMS granularity value is 8.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2005): Technical Data, Color Reversal Film. Kodak Professional Elite Chrome 100 Film (E-7014E), 04.2005, p. 3.
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Kodak Professional Ektachrome Duplicating Film Edupe is a low-contrast color reversal duplicating film. It is designed to make duplicates of originals on Kodak Ektachrome or Kodachrome film.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2004): Technical Data, Color Transparency Film. Kodak Professional Ektachrome Duplicating Film Edupe(E-2529), 05.2004, p. 7.
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Kodachrome 25 Professional Film (PKM) is a color reversal film with an ISO speed of 25, intended for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. Kodachrome films are designed for the K-14 process, a complex process which uses external couplers.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2009): Technical Data, Color Transparency Film. Kodachrome 25, 64, and 200 Professional Film (E-55), 06.2009, p. 3.
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Kodachrome 64 Professional Film (PKR) is a color reversal film with an ISO speed of 64, intended for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. Kodachrome films are designed for the K-14 process, a complex process which uses external couplers. In ...
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Eastman Kodak Company (2009): Technical Data, Color Transparency Film. Kodachrome 25, 64, and 200 Professional Film (E-55), 06.2009, p. 4.
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Kodachrome 200 Professional Film (PKL) is a color reversal film with an ISO speed of 200, intended for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. Kodachrome films are designed for the K-14 process, a complex process which uses external couplers.
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Eastman Kodak Company (2009): Technical Data, Color Transparency Film. Kodachrome 25, 64, and 200 Professional Film (E-55), 06.2009, p. 5.
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“Dufaytissue materials, marketed by Dufay-Chromex Limited of London between 1941 and 1948, resembled Belcolor and were used to produce color prints by contact. After they had been sensitized and dried, the pigment films were exposed by contact ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 89.
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“To produce the Omnicolore color screen, a sheet of glass was coated with a layer of gelatin on which lines of greasy blue-violet ink were ruled. The space between the lines was dyed yellow. Lines of greasy light blue ink were then ruled at ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 29.
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“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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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 105.
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“In 1942 Defender Photo Supply Company of Rochester, New York, introduced a panchromatic matrix film called Pan-Chroma-Relief Film, which simplified the making of dye imbibition prints from original Kodachrome or Ansco Color transparencies. Up ...
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Source: Klein, Adrian Bernhard (Cornwell-Clyne) (1940): Colour Cinematography. Boston: American Photographic Pub. Co.
- Source: Klein, Adrian Bernhard (Cornwell-Clyne) (1940): Colour Cinematography. Boston: American Photographic Pub. Co.
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“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). The tripack ...
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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.
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“[…] pictures were taken side by side, full-size, on double-width film, the film not only being perforated on the edges but also down the centre between the pairs of images.”
(Klein, Adrian Bernhard = Cornwell-Clyne (1940): Colour ...
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Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: Cinechrome Colour Test with Soap Boxes and Packets (1920)
- Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: Cinechrome Colour Test with Soap Boxes and Packets (1920)
- Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: Cinechrome Colour Test with Soap Boxes and Packets (1920)
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 10.
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“Thames Colour products originated from a 1906 patent by Clare Livingston Finlay (d. 1936) and were introduced commercially in England by the Thames Colour Plate Company of London in 1908 (Fig. 2.10). Color screens were obtained by repeatedly ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 30.
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- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 69.
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“Thames Colour products originated from a 1906 patent by Clare Livingston Finlay (d. 1936) and were introduced commercially in England by the Thames Colour Plate Company of London in 1908 (Fig. 2.10). Color screens were obtained by repeatedly ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 30.
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Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 70.
- Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 70.
- Photomicrograph (20x) of a Finlay screen. Credit: Courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film.
- Finlay box. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
- Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 39.
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 39.
- Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 40.
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“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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Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 235.
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 39.
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 40.
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“The materials and processes described thus far have been either unsuccessful or short-lived for one reason or another; the trend changed with the launch of Cibachrome in the 1960s. The product and its subsequent forms dominated the silver ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 216.
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Description of a variety of color processes, even for images in motion by the use of a rotary shutter.
“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 ...
“Berger then started to work with the master carbro printer Richard Newmark Kauffman (1916−1998), and together they founded Ultrastable Color Systems, Inc. In 1992 they introduced presensitized UltraStable material for four-color carbon ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 95.
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“In the early 1980s photographers frustrated by the poor stability of dye coupling materials started to experiment with pigment processes. Among them was Charles Berger, a California-based fine art photographer who, in 1982, developed a modern ...
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 93.
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 94.
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“Paget plates were discontinued in the early 1920s. Apparently production costs had risen to an almost prohibitive amount after World War I due to the difficulties of producing screen plates without defect (Offer 1926).
The product reemerged ...
The procedure for obtaining the lenticular elements in relief required a series of steps: starting from three black and white positive color separations, obtained with any of the available methods, three matrices were printed, from which the film to ...
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Projection of lenticular film in Bocca-Rudatis. Refraction of light beams through lens. Source: Pierotti, Federico (2016): Un'archeologia del colore nel cinema italiano. Dal Technicolor ad Antonioni. Pisa: Edizioni ETS, p. 81.
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“One of the most elegant solutions to the problem of forming a colored image, lies in the utilization of the products formed by the action of the developer upon the latent image. By this means there is formed a dye image whose intensity follows ...
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Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 161.
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Credit: Cinémathèque française, conservatoire des techniques, Paris.
- Source: Wall, E.J. (1925): The History of Three-color Photography. Boston: American Photographic Pub. Co.
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“In 1944 he launched a new reflection printing material on a white-pigmented acetate base called Gasparcolor Opaque, which was, initially and for the duration of the war, available only to the U.S. military. The processing of Gasparcolor Opaque ...
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Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 235.
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 228.
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Gasparcolor was the first three-color multi-layer monopack film available for practical use. It was a double-coated print film with a cyan layer on one side and two layers dyed magenta and yellow on the other side (see illustrations).
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Uit het rijk der kristallen (NDL 1927?, J.C. Mol). Credit: EYE Film Museum. Photographs of the Dufaycolor and Gasparcolor nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
- Kreise (English title Circles) (Oskar Fischinger, GER 1933-34) Oskar Fischinger's own nitrate print. Credit: Library of Congress, (c) Fischinger Trust, courtesy Center for Visual Music. Photograph Fischinger's own nitrate print by Barbara Flueckiger.
- Credit: (c) Fischinger Trust, courtesy Center for Visual Music. Film: Allegretto by Oskar Fischinger (1936-1943).
- Credit: (c) Fischinger Trust, courtesy Center for Visual Music. Film: Gasparcolor tests by Oskar Fischinger, c. 1933-34.
- Credit: Cinémathèque suisse. Film: Komposition in Blau (Composition in Blue) AKA Lichtkonzert Nr. 1 (Light-Concert No. 1) (GER 1935, Oskar Fischinger).
- Credit: Cinémathèque suisse. © Fischinger Trust, courtesy Center for Visual Music. Film: Komposition in Blau (Composition in Blue) AKA Lichtkonzert Nr. 1 (Light-Concert No. 1) (GER 1935, Oskar Fischinger).
- Credit: Cinémathèque suisse. © Fischinger Trust, courtesy Center for Visual Music. Film: Komposition in Blau (Composition in Blue) AKA Lichtkonzert Nr. 1 (Light-Concert No. 1) (GER 1935, Oskar Fischinger).
- Source: Coe, Brian (1981): The History of Movie Photography. Westfield, N.J.: Eastview Editions.
- Color chart on Agfa Tripofilm. This was the raw stock used for Gasparcolor in Germany until about 1939. Source: Arens, Hans; Heymer, Gerd (1939): Die „Agfa-Farbentafel für Farbenphotographie“. In: Veröffentlichungen des wissenschaftlichen Zentral-Laboratoriums der photographischen Abteilung Agfa, Vol. 6, 1939, pp. 225-229. Leipzig: Hirzel. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
- Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 213.
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“Introduced by the Autotype Company in 1944, the Autotype Wet Carbon Process was a variant of the traditional carbon process with novelty wet-printing pigment papers. Considerable time was saved when printing with this material as the pigment ...
“The Autochrome process was the first fully practical single-plate colour process to reach the photographic public. It was easy to use. The plate was loaded into a conventional holder, glass to the front. The exposure was made through a yellow ...
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Photomicrograph (50x) of an Autochrome mosaic screen. Credit: Courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film.
- Source: Lavédrine, Bertrand (2009): Photographs of the Past. Process and Preservation. Los Angeles: Getty Publications.
- Source: Coote, Jack H. (1993): The Illustrated History of Colour Photography. Surbiton, Surrey: Fountain Press.
- Source: Coote, Jack H. (1993): The Illustrated History of Colour Photography. Surbiton, Surrey: Fountain Press.
- Source: Holme, Charles (1908): Colour Photography, and Other Recent Developments of the Art of the Camera. London, Paris, New York.: Offices of The Studio.
- Source: Holme, Charles (1908): Colour Photography, and Other Recent Developments of the Art of the Camera. London, Paris, New York.: Offices of The Studio.
- Credit: Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln. http://www.klosterarchiv.ch/earchiv_liste.php?Objektyp_physisch=Glasautochrom&start=1
- Credit: Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln. http://www.klosterarchiv.ch/earchiv_liste.php?Objektyp_physisch=Glasautochrom&start=1
- Credit: Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln. http://www.klosterarchiv.ch/earchiv_liste.php?Objektyp_physisch=Glasautochrom&start=1
- Credit: Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln. http://www.klosterarchiv.ch/earchiv_liste.php?Objektyp_physisch=Glasautochrom&start=1
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 70.
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 26.
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 65.
- Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 27.
- Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 235.
- Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 64.
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Several attempts were made to apply the Autochrome process invented by the Lumière brothers to motion pictures.
Transparent potato starch grains with a diameter of 15–20 micrometer were colored in the additive primaries red, green and blue. The ...
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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.
- Cinécolor, mosaic screen, ca. 1929. Credit: Gert Koshofer Collection. Sample No. 68. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger.
- Credit: Cinémathèque française, conservatoire des techniques, Paris.
- 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.
- 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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“The principle of the subtractive colour process was described first by Louis Ducos du Hauron in 1868.
Although eminently suitable for colour motion pictures, the principle could not be applied until means were found of producing several colour ...
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Source: Ryan, Roderick T. (1977): A History of Motion Picture Color Technology. London: Focal Press, p. 67.
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“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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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 138.
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“In 1916 Traube found that copper toning baths were especially suitable for dye mordanting and patented the Uvachrome process. At the time, Germany was at war with most of Europe, and little commercial progress was made until the end of ...
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Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 103.
- Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 277.
- Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 138.
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Timeline of Historical Film Colors by Barbara Flueckiger is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Quote as Flueckiger, Barbara (2012 ff.): Timeline of Historical Film Colors. (= https://filmcolors.org/).
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