{"id":1744,"date":"2013-02-15T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2016-11-15T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:00:24","slug":"check-out-some-early-colour-film-isnt-it-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"Check out some early colour film, isn&#8217;t it beautiful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignright\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J_RTnd3Smy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is some of the earliest colour movie footage. It was scanned recently and put on YouTube by Kodak, who created it as a test clip in 1922. That&#8217;s 13 years before the first full-length colour feature film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0026104\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Becky Sharp<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film was produced using the two-colour Kodakchrome process.<!--more--> You may have heard of Kodachrome, a slide film known for its incredible colour reproduction and now sadly discontinued. It was used, for instance, by Steve McCurry for his his 1984 portrait of Sharbat Gula, the <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2002\/04\/afghan-girl\/original-story-text\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Afghan Girl&#8217;<\/a>, for the National Geographic magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The film footage here was shot with a different kind of Kodachrome, however. This is an earlier version, first produced commercially by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1915. The early Kodachrome film was a a subtractive colour transparency invented by John Capstaff.<br \/>\nIt only used two colours, red and green, produced by combining two negatives, one exposed through a red filter, the other through a green filter. After exposure, the two negatves were dyed blue-green and red-orange, respectively to create two positive images. These were then combined on a glass plate.<\/p>\n<p>The colour reproduction, at least in portraits, is pretty remarkable for a two-colour process. In fact for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?cat=54\">lomographers<\/a> out there it has that fantastical quality that many of us try to achieve by cross-processing flims known for generating a greenish tinge, or by experimenting with colour flashes.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this piece of test movie footage and the two-colour Kodakchrome process at the <a href=\"http:\/\/1000words.kodak.com\/thousandwords\/post\/?id=2982503\" target=\"_blank\">Kodak blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is some of the earliest colour movie footage. It was scanned recently and put on YouTube by Kodak, who created it as a test clip in 1922. That&#8217;s 13 years before the first full-length colour feature film, Becky Sharp. The film was produced using the two-colour Kodakchrome process.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[194,193],"tags":[197,196,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}