Kinemacolor
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Kinemacolor was the first commercially successful colour motion picture process. Used commercially from 1909 to 1915, it was invented by George Albert Smith in 1906. It was a two-colour additive colou
A frame from George Albert Smith's early colour film ''Two Clowns'' (c. 1907)
Frame from the Kinemacolor film Balkan War Scenes (1912), filmed by James Scott Brown and Frederic Villiers during the First Balkan War.
With Our King and Queen Through India is a British documentary film. The film is silent and made in the Kinemacolor additive color process.
Kinemacolor
…Victoria Memorial (1911), Coronation of George V (1911), The Investiture of The Prince of Wales (1911). The company also produced the documentary films With Our King and Queen Through India (1912) and the notable recovery of £750,000 worth of gold and silver bullion from the wreck of P&O's SS Oceana in the Strait of Dover (1912). The dramas…
Charles Urban (centre) and camera team at Delhi in 1911
Frames from lost sequence of With Our King and Queen Through India showing the state entry into Delhi. Kinemacolor films appear black-and-white - the colour effect occurs in projection