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« on: September 14, 2012, 12:56:05 am »
That's right, near the end of the Victorian age the first known colour film was produced. It sat for 75 years in the British National Media Museum's vaults, and nobody understood the significance of it until recently because without the proper decoding ring (yeah, really!) it looked just like a black and white film.

Amazingly clever bit of engineering. He made a camera that slipped a coloured gel in front of the film before each frame, red, green, blue, repeat. Then it was projected three frames at a time, with a rotating gate that had coloured strips to de-code the images.
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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2012, 01:12:42 am »
Links ?
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2012, 01:47:41 am »
Ahh, sorry!

http://videosift.com/video/Worlds-first-colour-moving-pictures-discovered
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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2012, 02:39:55 am »
Fascinating!
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« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2012, 02:42:11 am »
Wow, thanks for that.

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« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2012, 03:09:03 am »
While we're at it, the first known recording of a human voice in 1860, 17 years before Edison did it.

The first ever recorded song : Au Clair De La Lune. Original and mastered noise filtered audio
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« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2012, 10:53:38 am »
A wonderful find. I enjoyed it.
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« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2012, 01:10:22 pm »
I love these old films. Although these were the first 'actual' colour films there have been some great attempts to 'colourize' a lot of George Melies' early fantasy films. The recent remaster of his 'A Trip to the Moon' with new soundtrack by the French band 'Air' is marvellous.

I'm also fascinated by early recordings of sound and have a collection going back as far as 1859. Also, a number of recordings of musical devices from before that date.
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