Color Film

Technicolor

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Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color film processes refined by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation.

Subtractive Color Process

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Subtractive Color Process uses paints, dyes, inks, and natural colorants to create color by absorbing some wavelengths of light and reflecting or transmitting others. (See also additive.)

Pathe

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Pathe

Kodachrome

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Kodachrome is the oldest successfully mass-marketed color still film using a subtractive method of color theory.

Kinemacolor

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Kinemacolor was used primarily from 1908 to 1916. It was developed by George Albert Smith of England in 1906.

The Horst Process

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The Horst Process is a three color process. The camera used in the process recorded all three color records within the confines of a conventional 35mm frame.

Gaumont Chronochrome

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Gaumont Chronochrome was one of the first attempts to use three primary colors when producing color film.

Colcim

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Colcim color process is a two color way of processing film. It was primarily in use around 1916.

Cinecolor

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Cinecolor is an early subtractive color-model developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M. Gundelfinger.

Additive Color Synthesis

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Additive Color Synthesis creates color by mixing various amounts of two or three distinct colors of light. The primary colors commonly used are red, green, and blue.

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