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Thursday, September 13, 2012

World's First Color Film Found

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:

Jeffrey said...

fascinating :-)

Harpers Keeper said...

No other word for it...absolutely fascinating.

Greg said...

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.

Davis said...

Just a fantastic find

Russ Manley said...

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?

June Butler said...

Amazing and quite exciting.

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