Kinemacolor Demo

[uszoninyc]

That was 'breathtaking.'

[uszoninyc]

DeBergeracProd ✨truly, amazing to see this, and, breath king to look at.

[NCC6116]

How do you create the red and green passes? How can you extract the red and green channels from a black and white record?

[DeBergeracProd]

@NCC6116

To recreate the color, I used After effects. I separated the green pass from the red pass, tinted the green pass red and the red pass green, then superimposed one pass over the other (overlay).

This kinemacolor record turned out to be panchromatic rather than orthochromaic, so by tweaking the green to a cyan/green and the red to an orange/red, I was able to also reproduce some blue tones.

Take a look at the woman in the bathing suit (1:11) as she moves her arms.

[NCC6116]

@DeBergeracProd Can it be done with a film that is only in grayscale? Can red and green channels be extracted from that? 

[NCC6116]

How can you recreate Kinemacolor on a computer, and with what program?

Please respond somebody, I've really wanted to try it.

[Ataralas]

I found that zooming out considerably helped to better view the film.

[fmlondon]

One Kinemacolor slate would run for six months to sold out houses, close, and then reopen again a few months later, again selling out all showings. What killed Kinemacolor was that a lawsuit placed the rights in the public domain, and that was the beginning of the end. However, reading the contemporary reports, one cannot doubt that Kinemacolor was a sensation in its time.

[fmlondon]

I read through a lot of old newspapers and magazines, from the period of 1910-15, and Kinemacolor was actually a spectacular success. Among the lost ones was the coronation of George VI, all three candidates in the 1912 presidential race, and scenes from the early part of WWI, in which the French soldiers were still wearing red trousers. Writers were falling all over themselves in praise. According to published accounts, people paid as much to see Kinemacolor as to see a live show.

[TheGroxT6]

It brings to seizures. o.O

[KawhackitaRag]

seizure-ma-color?

[RICKROLLBLENDER]

AMAZING! absolutely stunning! Especially for the time!

[FalconKPD]

Interesting, but I think it might give someone a seizure.

[FalconKPD]

@FalconKPD at .23

[zorach13]

Back in the late 1950s, I discovered these exact scenes on two Castle Films "old-time-movies" collections. These particular scenes were incorrectly described as "flickers", because they did just that. Fortunately we had a 1913 edition of "The Book of Knowledge", in which Kinemacolor was described. Based on this, I modified my movie editor so that alternate frames would be shown through red and green filters. The results looked remarkably like (although not quite as good as) this video!

[ClinicalAttacked]

Kinemacolour was actually the first "successful" (or semi-successful) method of showing colour in films, there were many attempts earlier.

in 1896 Edison labs tried fitting Red, Green and Blue filters on a camera but bulked it up too much in the process to make it unusable and soon enough dumped the idea.

There was a filmmaker in Madrid who built a successful camera with Red and Green filters in 1899, shot some segments but from personal reasons discontinued the projects. No segments survived.

[sarniatownreggae]

The first couple of clips would have caused seizures.

[nakiwarai1]

Awesome!

[MichelFarfadet]

Hi,

I wanted to know how did you get these films. Do they come from the "The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt" DVD, or do you have a different source?

Thanks for sharing this nice video!

[andrewlavigne]

Interesting... =)

[xXxequisxXx]

Wow...that's really cool. It's a pity color photography wasn't perfected sooner, it would have been interesting to see more films from the early 20th c.

[superheterodi]

very very interesting. Thanks for this video from Barcelona!

[baftacat]

very interesting