1913 - NICE Chronochrome

1913 - NICE Chronochrome

I worked very hard to explore the internet, to find old color films from around 1900/1920, i found out it is extremly difficult to find these old films. After some research i found nearly 20 Kinemacolor films on the inernet to watch, i want to share this films with you! It is a shame those rare kinemacolor films are hidden within huge website databases free to watch, but not on youtube.

(the low quality is free to watch, for hq you need to pay, for info go to he Gaumont archives website)

You can find the film in this database:
Gaumont Pathé Archives

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Kinemacolor
• chronochrome
• biocolor
• early
• color
• film

[Silencebound]

Great to see it, but not at the '16:9' screen size as this colour film originally shot in '4:3' size, as of all the early silent films compares with that size only.

[Stasko888]

@Silencebound

Hi,

The files i found where in this screen size, but thanks for sharing this information, regards

[Krotatne001]

NICE movie lol

[bobbobato]

It's too bad early colour photographers were only interested in recording exotic locations. I'm quite a few people today would be very interested in seeing authentic color films of such everyday places as a city street or garden party from the same era, if only to make a usually blurry and b&w period seem more real.

[insertclevernickname]

All that before they even had LSD...wow.

[paulj0557]

@Gloc9music When looking back one can see that a great number of techniques were perfected early on and very often the technician had to ad-lib with whatever piece of equipment they had. Sometimes major alterations were made to their own equipment. For the hands on individual these moments could be rewarding. Today there is a different process altogether where many folks never even venture away from the digital medium at all,but a good artist can fool you into thinking they did from time to time

[eharriso]

absolutely awesome

[chrisz78]

@paulj0557

That's the Gaumont logo, probably a stupid "watermark" copy-protection scheme, doubly irritating as the image has not been digitally stabilized before to correct for the irregular shrinking of the original film that makes the picture wobble although the camera was steady on a tripod during shooting. Usually one can easily accomodate this while viewing, but the static logo in the background highlights the slight unsteadiness of the picture.

[TheDavec1]

Chronochrome was not shot 4:3 but what we see is the correct ratio. was a 3 colour process with 3 images on same roll of film and exposed at the same time. images were not large which restriced the size it could be blown up to. notice the lack of colour fringing on movement

wide screen films did not come in with cinemascope or cinerama but been around over 100 years.

[LandondeeL]

Notice how at 1:58, the men on the float discover the cameraman, and pelt him with lots more rice.

[pebey]

This looks to me like Gaumont's stencil coloring process, not Chronochrome. I believe this is a black and white print with the color added later, it does not have a natural look and the palette is limited. Still impressive for what it is.

[paulj0557]

@Gloc9music I stand in awe of how people manipulated technology to get the maximum use from it. Even to the point of creating something totally new in the process. I think living for 50-80 years just scratches the surface for many of us. I play music and love to record using different techniques. I once played with tape loops for almost two years just to see how far I could push analog tape. I know very little about film, but have always be fascinated by how the cameraman must calculate ahead.