Kinemacolor Film

Background
Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908-1914, invented by George Albert Smith in 1906. He was influenced by the work of William Norman Lascelles Davidson and, more directly, Edward Raymond Turner. It was launched by Charles Urban's Urban Trading Co. of London in 1908. From 1909 on, the process was known and trademarked as Kinemacolor. It was a two-colour additive colour process, photographing and projecting a black-and-white film behind alternating red and green filters.

(1908-1910)


Logo: On a black background, we see the custom cursive text "eurlau" in green, above the text KINEMACOLOR PATENTS in the center, which is also in green.

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None

Availability: Extinct; was known to appear on The Harvest, one of the first few films using the Kinemacolor process.