Color Film

Bryn Norrie Hour 1 and 3 Why Color Film?

• When photography was first introduced people were amazed but confused – how could something capture the details of a scene so vividly but leave out the color?

• Photographers and scientists T.R. Williams, Portrait of a soldier, 1855, worked hard to develop color hand-colored stereo daguerreotype film but the public wanted it as soon as possible J. Garnier, Portrait of a • Photographers wanted to give Girl, c. 1850, hand-colored people what they wanted and daguerreotype began to hand color photographs Who Invented Color Film?

• The first practical and commercially successful color film camera was the Autochrome in 1907  Invented by Auguste and Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiére Louis  In the 1890s they had Lumiére created the earliest motion pictures we have  They were the first to make color film easy and accessible to anyone The Autochrome

• Patented in 1903 and marketed in 1907

• Involved glass plates, a backlight, soot, and potato starch

• Camera of choice for for about 30 years

• Colors were grainy The Autochrome Camera The

• Introduced in 1935 by the Company

• Invented by Jr. and Leopold Mannes

• Popularity peaked in the 60s and 70s Afghan girl at Nasir Bagh refugee when people began to want to record camp, Steve McCurry, 1984 every memory they created

• There are 3 emulsions sensitive to light that develop on a single frame Garden of the to create the iconic Kodachrome Gods, Chalmers colors Butterfield, ca. 1950s • The colors were bright and vivid, different from anything else available at the time Color Film Photography Today • Today color photography is the expectation  Most newspapers are printed in color, for example

• Digital photography has made taking color photos much easier  No more need for developing photos or using multiple slides

• More people take color photos

• Unfortunately, the Kodachrome camera Close up color photo of grape on production has been stopped a grape vine  However, photographers are excited to see what is next for color photography