No 1 Kinemacolor Camera
No 1 Kinemacolor camera, 1909, made by the Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited, 89-91 Wardour Street, London. Fitted with a Dallmeyer super-six anastigmat f1.9, F=2". Urban Patent 8348.
Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1909 to 1914. It was invented by George Albert Smith in 1906 building upon the earlier Lee and Turner three colour film process. It was developed and run by Charles Urban and his Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited. It was a two-colour additive colour process, photographing and projecting a black-and-white film behind alternating red and green filters.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Object Number:
- 1951-579
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified), mahogany (wood), plastic (unidentified), leather, aluminium alloy, brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
- Measurements:
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overall: 415 mm x 175 mm x 345 mm, 11.735kg
- type:
- cine camera
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford