Along about 1902, a young British photographer named Edward Turner came up with a way to film movies in natural color. Unfortunately, Turner died a couple of years later, and his technique was forgotten, along with his pioneering films. But now researchers at the National Media Museum in Bradford, England, have reprocessed the 110-year-old film found in their vaults, with amazing results:
Read more about the discovery at the museum's website.
6 comments:
fascinating :-)
No other word for it...absolutely fascinating.
it's amazing that the film has lasted as long as it has. Most of the old films from that time I thought had disintegrated or become so damaged as to be non-viewable.
Just a fantastic find
I thought it was pretty amazing too, fellas - glad you like.
Greg - I know the pre-1950 nitrate films are prone to disintegrate, maybe he used a different type of film?
Amazing and quite exciting.
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