Brian R  Pritchard - Motion Picture and Film Archive Consultant

Motion Picture Technology

Francita Colour / British Realita Process

Three analysis images are obtained by three primary objective systems mounted in conjunction with prisms and suplementary optical systems with focussing arrangements.
‘Colour Cinemaytography’ Cornwell-Clyne
1951

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Lenticular Colour

THE LENTICULAR PROCESS
One of the simplest and most elegant
of all the proposals for the making of color reproductions. This is the lenticular
process, which requires no special camera or special processing technique,
except that a special type of film has molded on its back a series of lenticular
elements which divide the surface into a honeycomb structure.

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2-Colour Kodachrome

  The SMPE Transactions Volume 1   MEETING OF NOVEMBER 18-20, 1918 CLEVELAND J. G. Capstaff, English Patent No. 13,429 of 1915. (See below for the patent pdf.) The silver image is bleached and tanned so that the dye goes into the gelatine in proportion to the amount...

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Brewster Colour

Brewster Colour was a two-colour subtractive colour process introduced in 1915. The process was extensively modified after 1930 and made into a three-colour system

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Why Colour Negatives are Orange

The dyes used in colour films have to satisfy two main criteria; they have to be able to be formed in the colour process from a reaction between the silver halides being developed, the couplers in the emulsion and the colour developing agent in the developer and they have to have certain colour photographic qualities. Coloured Couplers help satisfy this requirement

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Printer Grading Charts

After a film has been graded it is necessary to comunicate the grading information to the printing machine.  This can be done by mechanical charts, By charts containing Waterhouse stops with and without colour filters, by metal clips,by punch tapes or computer control, CD’s. floppy discs or wifi.

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