1922, IN COLOR

Sunday, August 29, 2010 2 comments

Oh, this is soooo lovely. Thanks to a link forwarded by @theangrymick on Twitter, I can bring you this rather incredible little video from Kodak: a test of a prototype color film from (yes) 1922. NINETEEN TWENTY-TWO! Man! There is something quite poignant about seeing something from those days in something other than black-and-white, even if these colors are not really "real." It is a little reminder that the people back "then" were just like Technicolor 3-D living breathing folks today, somehow.




Kodak's post on their site will give you more info about how it was done and more. I am so glad these things are being restored and preserved; SO much in film has been irretrievably lost already. Thanks, Kodak!

2 comments:

Dear sir or madam, from time to time the people at the hospital allow me to use the library here on the ground, on those days I always read your message board. I like the pictures, it shows me what the outside world looks like.

Anyway, I read your thoughts on the old picture shows and thought I would steal it and post it on a film news group, this is the reply I got:

Re: OT: Kodak test footage of color film from 1922
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010

Mr. Hole the Magnificent wrote:

>A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will
>see.

That's utter nonsense. Just another instance of America-centrism.

Color film startet long before Technicolor and Kodachrome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcIvm0YW_6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxaWMpoSpyU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnKCQp0hef8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlyvnN-dwI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKmhsaoxbqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-W8gPiW-o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY2EyLEGsyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwiFz1JumOE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMYSMH-eMkU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQSJKCkZ8sI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMqETxjlp3Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekklFIWDtac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7dnSHLkZ58
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzn3ChF023Q

You can read the rest of the thread here:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.movies.past-films/browse_frm/thread/61a7739dc87b9e96/c5a17dd83029b9c1?hl=en#c5a17dd83029b9c1


Mr. Hole

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