Cached away for over a century, the
world's first color moving pictures
have been shown for the first time last Wednesday, according to the
National Media Museum in the UK. The celluloid, shot by inventor Edward
Raymond Turner in 1899, was actually in black and white and it was only
through a curator's research that its colorful significance was also
unearthed.
When the footage was first shot, each frame was run consecutively
through red, green or blue gels, and the process needed to be reversed
during projection to reveal the color. Fortunately, a blueprint by the
inventor of how to do just that was also found, allowing the
institution's team to replicate the process digitally to produce the
final footage.
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