Posted on 09/14/2012 6:49:33 PM PDT by lowbridge
There is not much of a plot –goldfish in bowl –but the scene and others from the same rolls of film were revealed on Wednesday as the earliest colour moving images ever made in a discovery that does nothing less than "rewrite film history".
The National Media Museum in Bradford said it had found what it contends are truly historic films from 1901/02, pre-dating what had been thought to be the first successful colour process –Kinemacolor –by eight years.
"We believe this will literally rewrite film history," said the museum's head of collections, Paul Goodman. "I don't think it is an overstatement. These are the world's first colour moving images."
The films were made by a young British photographer and inventor called Edward Turner, a pioneer who can now lay claim to being the father of moving colour film, well before the pioneers of Technicolor.
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What’s with the Brits and putting ‘’u’’in words like ‘’color’’ and ‘’labor’’? And why do they pronounce the word ‘’clerk’’ like ‘’clark’’?
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I read somewhere that after the Norman conquest, when many among the nobility were French-descended, they started adding the “u” and changing other spellings to make the words look French. Other examples include cheque and centre.
The world was black and white until 1943, when during the World War II war effort, the United States embarked on a intensive research effort to invent color. The navy realized that being able to see in color would allow naval spotters to recognize grey ships against the blue sea and sky more handily.
In 1944, the Pigment Project (as it was known) had a breakthrough and released color into the world.
Things have not been the same since.
And they drive on the wrong side of the road too.
NOTE: All people shown therein are currently dead.
“And they drive on the wrong side of the road too’’<. I say, frightfully bad of them!.
Are they merely dead or are they really most sincerely dead?
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