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World's first colour moving pictures discovered!

submitted by spoco2

1 decade 2 years 2 months 1 week ago

Want to see colour film shot 110 years ago? That's what has been now been restored and displayed by the British National Media Museum.

They've had this film in their collection for 75 years, but to the eye it's just a black and white film. It's only when you run every third frame through a blue green or red filter that you get back out the colour image. This is called the Turner process, and they had to transfer the non-standard film onto 35mm, then scan into a computer to recreate the process by which it would have been originally played back

It's amazing to look back through time and see these images.

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And because I think it's bloody amazing... *promote it all myself

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, September 13th, 2012 1:54pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter spoco2.

This IS amazing.
Technology is cool but never forget the people behind the technology that thought of it to start with.

so why did they have to transfer twice ?
wouldn't it have been easier to just digitize from the source?

It would even have been easier to build a rig to do a triple exposure onto 35mm automatically with filters.

I'd have really liked an explanation for this too.
>> ^spawnflagger:

so why did they have to transfer twice ?
wouldn't it have been easier to just digitize from the source?

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by arvana.

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