An advertisement for Kinemacolor by the Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited, printed by the Dangerfield Printing Company in London, c. 1911. The advertisement boasts that Kinemacolor is 'The only system of Animated Pictures in the Actual Colors of Nature'.
An advertisement for Kinemacolor by the Natural Color Kinematograph Company Limited, printed by the Dangerfield Printing Company in London, c. 1911.
The two-colour motion picture process, Kinemacolor, was invented by the British film producer, George Albert Smith (1864-1959), and patented in 1906. It was taken up by the American entrepreneur, Charles Urban, and became the first commercially successful motion picture colour process. Urban formed the Natural Color Kinematograph Company in 1909.
The advertisement boasts that Kinemacolor is 'The only system of Animated Pictures in the Actual Colors of Nature'.
Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Object Number:
- 2005-5002/3/1/62
- type:
- advertisement
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- credit:
- National Media Museum, Bradford
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
