Autochrome Lumiere (fragment 1)

www.auxdocks.com - Documentary 52 minutes by Patrick Naslès

Many of the inventions of the Lumière brothers are considered as ground-breaking, but their Autochrome color photography process definitely occupies a special place. It is an immediate success: millions of screen-plates are sold and manufacturing sites are created in the USA and in Ukraine.

In 1909 the banker Albert Khan starts a photographic record of the whole Earth with the use of autochromes. He engages photographers, and a total of 72,000 images will be taken all over the world, constituting a unique historical and artistic record, known as The Archives of the Planet.

At that time, newspapers and history books showed us wars and conflicts in black and white, death and horror were colorless. Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud, a former director of Intelligence, was engaged by Clemenceau to lead a Photograph Dept in the army. Tournassoud, risking his life on many occasions, shot uncountable images of the First World War, having a tremendous impact
We are far away from the girls of The Ciotat in their pastel colours who would have made David Hamilton jealous.

This documentary takes us onto an unforgettable journey, a century back in time, into a world that suddenly, for the first time in history becomes completely visible, in full and amazing colors.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Lumiere
• brothers
• autochrome
• tournassoud
• la
• ciotat
• albert
• khan