9:56 pm - 09/13/2012
“There is not much of a plot – goldfish in bowl – but the scene and others from the same rolls of film were revealed on Wednesday as the earliest colour moving images ever made in a discovery that does nothing less than “rewrite film history”.
“The National Media Museum in Bradford said it had found what it contends are truly historic films from 1901/02, pre-dating what had been thought to be the first successful colour process – Kinemacolor – by eight years.
” “We believe this will literally rewrite film history,” said the museum’s head of collections, Paul Goodman. “I don’t think it is an overstatement. These are the world’s first colour moving images.”
The films were made by a young British photographer and inventor called Edward Turner, a pioneer who can now lay claim to being the father of moving colour film, well before the pioneers of Technicolor.
Turner worked for the American colour photography pioneer Frederic Eugene Ives, which inspired him to begin thinking about colour and moving pictures. It was an expensive business and Turner was backed financially by an entrepreneur called Frederick Lee.
The footage includes a goldfish in a bowl, Turner’s three young children with sunflowers, Turner’s heavily bonneted daughter on a swing, a scarlet macaw, a panning shot of Brighton beach and pier, soldiers marching in Hyde Park and what is thought to be the very first shot, traffic on London’s Knightsbridge looking up to Hyde Park Corner….
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World’s first color film discovered in museum
“There is not much of a plot – goldfish in bowl – but the scene and others from the same rolls of film were revealed on Wednesday as the earliest colour moving images ever made in a discovery that does nothing less than “rewrite film history”.
“The National Media Museum in Bradford said it had found what it contends are truly historic films from 1901/02, pre-dating what had been thought to be the first successful colour process – Kinemacolor – by eight years.
” “We believe this will literally rewrite film history,” said the museum’s head of collections, Paul Goodman. “I don’t think it is an overstatement. These are the world’s first colour moving images.”
The films were made by a young British photographer and inventor called Edward Turner, a pioneer who can now lay claim to being the father of moving colour film, well before the pioneers of Technicolor.
Turner worked for the American colour photography pioneer Frederic Eugene Ives, which inspired him to begin thinking about colour and moving pictures. It was an expensive business and Turner was backed financially by an entrepreneur called Frederick Lee.
The footage includes a goldfish in a bowl, Turner’s three young children with sunflowers, Turner’s heavily bonneted daughter on a swing, a scarlet macaw, a panning shot of Brighton beach and pier, soldiers marching in Hyde Park and what is thought to be the very first shot, traffic on London’s Knightsbridge looking up to Hyde Park Corner….
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I was tripping my metaphorical balls off when I first saw
the last lady reminds me of drew barrymore
I don't know if I'm more amazed or creeped out.....
Like these people are long gone.....But it looks so recent.
aw why'd you have to point that out
this was taken in 1909
this man was born in 1825(!)
Why am i so afraid of these pictures? It's freaking me out how this is...........the same as pics today.
Like, they were seeing the same thing we're seeing. Green grass, blue skies, trees.
I mean, I know that people didn't live in black and white. I guess I'm used to seeing it that way(or very faded pics in color).
like just because i imagine things were so black & white then
My fave is this one. It's almost a century old.
What's even stranger that it looks fake.
Finds like this make me so happy
Now if only the cut hours of footage from Greed would turn up (I know they won't) I would die one happy woman.
also, the colors of this and really early film are very much like what you see on old, expire photography film once developed. depending on the company and its age the colors and shit is crazy
Edited at 2012-09-14 02:10 am (UTC)
Edited at 2012-09-14 02:10 am (UTC)
Of course, then my mom said, "And that baby is so happy. He's probably dead now."
Because apparently I'm a Debbie Downer.