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Nigel

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Slightly off-topic: First Kodachrome movie test
« on: July 01, 2010, 09:04:14 PM »
Although this is moving images it is Kodachrome. From 1922 one of the first trials of Kodachrome for movie cameras. I don't know if Kodachrome went on to be used for movies did it? (or is that a really dumb question?) wikipedia search imminent!

Kodak say this is one of the first colour films.

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Re: Slightly off-topic: First Kodachrome movie test
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2010, 09:22:50 PM »
Wow, amazing, 1922.....

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Re: Slightly off-topic: First Kodachrome movie test
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2010, 10:53:22 PM »
I don't know if Kodachrome went on to be used for movies did it? (or is that a really dumb question?)
Kodachrome was used as movie film... it was the only thing my grandpa ever put in his old double-8 camera!
Marvelous film. Gorgeous colors.

Kodachrome, while not being the first "color film", was the first practical color film. Before that, there was the Lumiere Autochrome... but it couldn't be used in movie cameras (I think it was only possible to make them on glass plates). The first movies with color had something that looked more like dancing blotches than real color. These were hand painted frame by frame on every reel... not practical.
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