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Although Kodachrome 16mm reversal film was introduced as an amateur film format, rapidly after its introduction it became a format frequently used by (semi-)professional film makers. The reason was that Kodachrome was a relatively easy to use film ...
Duplicating stock for reversal film. Replaced Kodachrome duplicating stock type 5262. Contrary to its predecessor the new stock was not suited as camera material. Type 5265 could only be used for duplication.
Kodachrome Professional was introduced in 1942 to be used as camera material. It was the Kodachrome material that was blown up to 35mm Technicolor dye transfer prints, which was the Technicolor Monopack system.
According to Norris Pope this material ...
In 1946 Kodachrome Commercial camera film Type 5268 was introduced. This stock had a lower-contrast emulsion and became leading in the professional field until it was replaced by Ektachrome Commercial type 7255 in 1958. Both Commercial Kodachrome and ...
Kodachrome II was introduced in 1961. It was the first film stock since 1936 that was specifically meant for amateur use. Eastman Kodak presented the material as superior to the ‘regular Kodachrome’. It supposedly had a higher speed of 25 ...
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La perception et l'imaginaire (FRA 1964, Éric Duvivier). Credit: Image'Est. Photographs of the Kodachrome II camera material by Bregt Lameris, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
- Les autopathes (FRA 1971, Éric Duvivier). Credit: Image'Est. Photographs of the kodachrome reversal by Bregt Lameris, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
- Hallucinations: Images du monde visionnaire (FRA 1963, Éric Duvivier). Credit: Image'Est. Photographs of undated Kodachrome II projection print by Bregt Lameris, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
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L stands for the Leverkusen brand of Agfacolor. N for negative, K for tungsten (Kunstlicht) and T for daylight (Tageslicht).
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Credit: By courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: Commercial Denkt rechtzeitig daran (GER 1952).
- Credit: By courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: 1/50 Sekunde, commercial for Niggemeyer Foto/Kino (1952).
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Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
- Faded Ferraniacolor positive from Eastmancolor negative, anamorphic (1:2,35). Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Smrt v sedle (Jindřich Polák, Czechoslovakia 1958).
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A chromogenic process based on Agfacolor, see detail page Agfacolor Neu / Agfacolor.
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Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jen počkej X (Nu, pogodi!) (Vjačeslav Kotěnočkin, USSR, 1976).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Jak se Žofka postarala o svatbu (Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Miloš Macourek, Czechoslovakia 1988).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
- Eastmancolor negative on Fomacolor positive. Credit: Národní filmový archiv / National Film Archive, Prague. Film: Slunečná laguna (Mirko Kačena, Czechoslovakia 1990).
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“The Fujicolor process is a three-color subtractive negative/positive process introduced in 1955 by the Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
When the process was introduced it consisted of two elements that could be used singly or together. ...
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Don't Look Now (GBR / ITA 1973, Nicolas Roeg). Credit: BFI National Film Archive. Photographs of the faded Fujicolor HP Positive Film Type 8813 by Joëlle Kost, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors.
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Timeline of Historical Film Colors by Barbara Flueckiger is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Quote as Flueckiger, Barbara (2012 ff.): Timeline of Historical Film Colors. (= https://filmcolors.org/).
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