Timeline of Historical Colors in Photography and Film

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Pantachrom

1938
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John Eggert and Gerd Heymer (Agfa)
Subtractive 3 color: Bi-pack and lenticular film recording, duplitized film with toning and silver dye-bleach
“In October, Eggert of the Agfa Research Department, read a paper at the Berlin meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für photographische Forschung, on the Pantochrom subtractive lenticular bipack tricolor process. (Fig. 1) The green and blue ...

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Telco color subtractive 2 color

1938
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Leon Ungar and K. R. Hoyt
Subtractive 2 color: Split optics, side by side, duplitized film

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Curtis Neotone

1939
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Thomas S. Curtis
Subtractive 3 color: dye mordanting process, still photography
“In 1939 Thomas S. Curtis of Huntington Park, California, introduced Curtis Neotone, a simple dye mordanting printing method for the production of color prints or transparencies from color separation negatives. With Curtis’s method, a ...

Curtis Orthotone

1939
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Thomas S. Curtis
Subtractive 3 color: dye imbibition process, still photography
“In 1939 Thomas S. Curtis (1889–1964) proposed Orthotone, a dye imbibition printing method that was primarily a variation of the widely used Eastman Wash-Off Relief. Orthotone offered its practitioners complete control on the contrast or ...

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Iriscolor

1940
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Franz Noack, Georg Muschner, Gotthardt Wolf (MWN-group)
Subtractive 3 color: Beam-splitter camera, imbibition printing
Similar to Technicolor, the Iriscolor process needed a special beam-splitter camera for exposing three black-and-white negatives on Kodak film stock. These negatives were used for imbibition printing. Between 1940 and 1942, Tobis Tonbild-Syndikat AG ...

Kodachrome Color Reversal Film 5265

1940
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(Eastman Kodak)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, reversal, 16 mm
Duplicating stock for reversal film. Replaced Kodachrome duplicating stock type 5262. Contrary to its predecessor the new stock was not suited as camera material. Type 5265 could only be used for duplication.

Azochrome

1940
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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: dye destruction process, silver dye-bleach, still photography
“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 ...

Technicolor Monopack / Kodachrome Professional Type 5267 / Eastman Monopack 7267

1940
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(Technicolor / Kodak Eastman)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack
During the 1940s Kodachrome was used as camera material for films that were blown up to 35mm Technicolor projection prints. Technicolor used this technology from 1942 until the mid-1950s when Eastman Kodak introduced the Eastmancolor ...

Agfacolor Negative type B

1940
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(IG Farbenindustrie, Agfa, Berlin, Filmfabrik Wolfen)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, daylight
For more information on the Agfacolor process see the detail page Agfacolor Neu / Agfacolor.

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Crawford Flexichrome 1940–1942, after 1949 Kodak Flexichrome

1940
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Jack Crawford, Crawford Flexichrome Company (Eastman Kodak Company)
Subtractive 3 color: hybrid dye imbibition process, still photography and film
“In the 1940s a product called Crawford Flexichrome appeared on the market. It allowed photographers to obtain prints or transparencies in full color by simply applying dyes of various colors by hand to a gelatin relief image. Results obtained ...

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Agfacolor Negative type G

1940
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(IG Farbenindustrie, Agfa, Berlin, Filmfabrik Wolfen)
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Germany
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, Tungsten

Agfacolor Negative type G was a chromogenic camera negative balanced for Tungsten illumination.

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Minicolor

1941
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Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: dye coupling or chromogenic process, still photography
“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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Dufaytissue

1941
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Dufay-Chromex Limited of London
Subtractive 3 color: pigment process, still photography
“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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Gaspar Color subtractive 2 color

1941
Subtractive 2 color: Silver dye-bleach

Agfacolor Negative type B2

1941
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(IG Farbenindustrie, Agfa, Berlin, Filmfabrik Wolfen)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, daylight
For more information on the Agfacolor chromogenic process see Agfacolor Neu / Agfacolor.

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Agfacolor Negative type G2

1941
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(IG Farbenindustrie, Agfa, Berlin, Filmfabrik Wolfen)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, Tungsten

Kodachrome Professional Film Type 5267

1942
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(Eastman Kodak)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, reversal, 16 mm 35mm?
Kodachrome Professional was introduced in 1942 to be used as camera material. It was the Kodachrome material that was blown up to 35mm Technicolor dye transfer prints, which was the Technicolor Monopack system. According to Norris Pope this material ...

Fullcolor

1942
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L. S. Trimble (Trimble Laboratories)
Subtractive 2 colors: Bi-pack, duplitized film

Defender Pan-Chroma-Relief

1942
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Defender Photo Supply Company
Subtractive 3 color: dye imbibition process, still photography
“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 ...

Ansco Color Printon; Improved Printon Anscochrome Type / GAF Printon Type 6400 / GAF Printon Type 6410 (1956–1981)

1943
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Ansco, GAF
Subtractive 3 color: dye coupling or chromogenic process, still photography and film
“Ansco Color Printon In 1943 Ansco followed suit and launched a printing material on white-pigmented acetate base called Ansco Color Printon (Fig. 5.7). Initially, Printon was made accessible only to the military. After 1945 it became available to ...

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Gasparcolor Opaque (1944–ca. 1952) / Bauchet Color Paper (1953–1955)

1944
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Bela Gaspar; manufactured by Ansco (1944–46), manufactured by Etablissement Bauchet (1953–1955)
Subtractive 3 color: dye destruction process, silver dye-bleach, still photography and film
“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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Autotype Wet Carbon

1944
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Autotype Company
Subtractive 3 color: pigment process, still photography
“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 ...

Sovcolor negative type G

1945
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(Agfa Wolfen GDR, from 1948 GUKP, USSR)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, Tungsten

Sovcolor negative film type B

1945
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(Agfa Wolfen GDR, from 1948 GUKP, USSR)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, daylight

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British Tricolour / Dufaychrome

1946
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Jack Coote (Dufay-Chromex Ltd.)
Subtractive 3 color: Beam-splitter, three-strip, multiple printing

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Svema LN-1

1946
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(Svema, Shostka Chemical Plant)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack

Ansco Colorpak / Ansco Color, type 735

1946
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(Ansco Division of General Aniline and Film Corporation)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, reversal 35 mm, 12 ASA

Kodachrome Commercial Type 5268

1946
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(Eastman Kodak)
Subtractive 3 color: Chromogenic monopack, reversal, 16 mm
In 1946 Kodachrome Commercial camera film Type 5268 was introduced. This stock had a lower-contrast emulsion and became leading in the professional field until it was replaced by Ektachrome Commercial type 7255 in 1958. Both Commercial Kodachrome and ...

Konicolor

1946-1959
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Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd
Subtractive 3 color

“The Konicolor system, introduced by Konishiroku Shashin Kogyo (Now Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.), split the image into three colors and shot them separately onto three b&w films. In that sense it had something in common with the US ‘Technicolor system’, but this was not a contact print with color dye to create positive film, but used coated emulsion to develop each color in a triple process, which is peculiar. […].”

Kodak Dye Transfer

1946
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Louis M. Condax, Eastman Kodak Company
Subtractive 3 color: dye imbibition process, still photography
“Kodak Dye Transfer materials were introduced by Eastman Kodak Company in February 1946 and replaced Eastman Wash-Off Relief. Principal improvements over the previous material included a simplified registration procedure, more rapidly ...

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