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"Fording the River" Kinemacolor (1910)

1910 · Silent film · 3 min

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Fording the River" (1910). Filmed in original color with the Kinemacolor process. White balance corrected to show a result closer to nature. Charles Urban (1867 - 1942) marketed the Kinemacolor process, the first successful color film process, from 1908 to about 1916. The process was invented by Urban along with George Albert Smith (1864 - 1959). It was a two-color process, photographing and projecting a black-and-white film behind alternating red and green filters. Description in the 1913…

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