Kodachrome colour film
Película en color Kodachrome
- Date
- 1935 · confidence high
- Place
- Rochester, New York, United States
- Credited to
- Leopold Godowsky Jr. and Leopold Mannes (Kodak Research Laboratories); the Lumières' Autochrome (1907) as a precursor
- People
- 👤 Leopold Godowsky Jr.1900–1983👤 Leopold Mannes1899–1964
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
First commercially successful three-layer subtractive colour film, with colour couplers added during development. It put colour within reach of the amateur photographer.
What it led to
- Mass colour photography and slides
- Agfacolor (1936) and single-development colour films
- Amateur cinema and colour documentation of the Second World War
Built on
- Celluloid roll film1887–1889
- Lumière Autochrome1903-1907
- Autochrome
- Celluloid roll film
- Synthetic dye chemistry
Made possible
- Three-strip Technicolor1916–1932
- Agfacolor
- Ektachrome
- Slide (transparency)