Pathécolor
- Date
- 1903 · confidence medium
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Segundo de Chomón, for Pathé (c. 1903)
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Mechanical stencil-based film-coloring process that applied dye color by color to each frame, developed by Segundo de Chomón for the French studio Pathé.
What it led to
- industrial-scale coloring of silent films
- renamed Pathéchrome and used into the mid-20th century
- precedent for later color-film processes
- influence on the aesthetics of early European cinema