Kinemacolor
- Date
- 1906 · confidence high
- Place
- Brighton, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- George Albert Smith
- Field
- Communication
What it is
First commercially successful color motion-picture process, devised by George Albert Smith, based on black-and-white film shot through alternating red/orange and blue/green filters and projected through the same filters.
What it led to
- Worldwide commercialization by Charles Urban's Natural Color Kinematograph Company
- Commercial use between 1909 and 1915 in cinemas
- Push for more stable color processes (Technicolor)
- Advances in understanding additive color synthesis applied to film