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First colour moving pictures

First colour moving pictures
Who
Test films by Raymond Turner dated 1901/02
Where
United Kingdom (Bradford,National Media Museum,)
When
12 September 2012
On 12 September 2012, the National Media Museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK, announced that colour moving pictures recently found in its archive had been restored. Experts at the Museum dated the films to 1901/02, making these the earliest examples of colour moving pictures. The test films were made by pioneer photographer and inventor Edward Raymond Turner (UK) using a process he patented with his then financial backer Frederick Marshall Lee (UK) on 22 March 1899. A complicated process, it involved photographing successive frames on black-and-white film through blue, green and red filters. Using a special projector, these were combined on a screen through similar colour filters to produce full-colour images. After Turner’s sudden death in 1903, pioneer film-maker George Albert Smith briefly worked on the process but abandoned it in favour of a simpler two-colour process he developed in 1906. Marketed in 1908 as Kinemacolor by American Charles Urban, who had funded both Turner and Smith,, this became the first commercially successful colour moving picture process and made Urban a fortune.