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“The Fujicolor process is a three-color subtractive negative/positive process introduced in 1955 by the Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
When the process was introduced it consisted of two elements that could be used singly or together. ...
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Don't Look Now (GBR / ITA 1973, Nicolas Roeg). Credit: BFI National Film Archive. Photographs of the faded Fujicolor HP Positive Film Type 8813 by Joëlle Kost, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
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“In 1898 William Friese-Greene, a professional portrait photographer by trade, demonstrated in London ‘the first process of true natural-color cinematography.’ His program consisted of ‘a series of animated natural-color pictures,’ and although this demonstration aroused considerable interest at the time, Friese-Greene was unable to exploit this system on a profitable basis. Undaunted, he eventually developed a total of four different color methods.”
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Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: Kino the Girl of Colour (GB 1920, William Friese-Greene, Claude Friese-Greene).
- Credit: Cinémathèque française, conservatoire des techniques, Paris.
- Credit: Paolo Cherchi Usai. Source: Cherchi Usai, Paolo (2000): Silent Cinema. London: BFI.
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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.
- Source: Coe, Brian (1981): The History of Movie Photography. Westfield, N.J.: Eastview Editions.
- Schmidt, Richard / Kochs, Adolf (1943): Farbfilmtechnik. Eine Einführung für Filmschaffende. Berlin: Hesse, pp. 54-72. (Schriftenreihe der Reichsfilmkammer, 10.) (in German) [quote id='5']
- Schmidt, Richard / Kochs, Adolf (1943): Farbfilmtechnik. Eine Einführung für Filmschaffende. Berlin: Hesse, pp. 54-72. (Schriftenreihe der Reichsfilmkammer, 10.) (in German) [quote id='5']
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NEW!
Soon negative color FOTON daylight films will be available.
FOTONKOLOR NS
roll film 120
FOTONKOLOR NS
roll film 620
FOTONCOLOR NS
roll film 127
FOTONCOLOR NS
35mm (in cartridge)
FOTONCOLOR NS
sheet film
Fotoncolor NS will be possible to expose like 16° DIN, 32 ASA black and white negative film.
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A chromogenic process based on Agfacolor, see detail page Agfacolor Neu / Agfacolor.
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Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
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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.
- Source: 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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Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
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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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