The history of three-color photography (1925)

Record Details:

Title:
The history of three-color photography
Date:
1925
Publisher:
Boston : American Photographic Publishing Company
Volume:
The history of three-color photography
Leaf #:
000566
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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550 History of Three-Color Photography the camera, and the space between the lens and transparency covered with an opaque cloth. R. Raymond13 proposed that a sheet of mica or celluloid should be bound up with an Autochrome, so that it could not shift, and that it should then be sensitized with dichromated gelatin, dried and exposed to light behind a filter corresponding to one of the colors of the grains. It was then to be washed and inked up with a greasy ink. This operation was to Fig. 144 (Page 549). be repeated three times, and the result, it was said, would be a complete color record all except the blacks, and these were to be obtained by coating with silver emulsion, exposing, developing and reversing as in the original plate. The print was then to be stripped and bound up. L. Gimpel14 was successful in obliterating the structure of the screen elements in the reproduction of Autochromes by exposing two panchromatic plates with their films in contact, using a yellowish-green filter, as suggested by Monpillard (see p. 81). After development, the negatives, which were kept rather thin, were bound in contact and printed with the sharp one in contact with the sensitive surface.