Trafalgar Square

PART OF:
Examples of Dufaycolor.
Made:
1945 in London
photographer:
Unknown
Trafalgar Square
    A Dufaycolor colour transparency of Trafalgar

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Trafalgar Square A Dufaycolor colour transparency of Trafalgar
Science Museum Group Collection
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A Dufaycolor colour transparency of Trafalgar Square in London, taken by an unknown photographer in 1945.

Dufaycolor first appeared in 1932 as a 16mm cine film, followed in 1935 by a roll film version. It employed a geometric screen made up of red lines alternating with rows of green and blue rectangles. Colour reproduction was good, and it was comparatively fast—although only one-third of the speed of contemporaneous black-and-white film.

Dufaycolor was aimed at the everyday ‘snapshot’ market. A processing service which returned finished transparencies, mounted and ready for viewing, opened up colour photography to a whole new class of photographers. Dufaycolor, the last of the screen processes, remained on the market up to the 1950s.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1966-313/3
Materials:
paper
type:
dufaycolor print
credit:
The National Media Museum, Bradford