World's Oldest Color Film Discovered

After being cached in a media repository for over a century, the world's initial colored film (or "motion picture" as it was called) was shown is to initial time Wednesday, according to the National Media Museum in Bradford, England. The film, that was shot by contriver Edward Raymond Turner in 1899, was originally in black and white, but it was usually now–through a curator's research–that its colored stress was moreover discovered.

During the routine of filming, any support was run by red, green, or blue gels in uninterrupted order. That routine indispensable to be topsy-turvy during projection to exhibit the film in color, but it was never completed so at the time. The inventor, however, left at the back a draft of how to do just that. This authorised the institution's group to replicate the routine digitally, producing the last footage.

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You can examine out the video and see the final, un-retouched, non-handpainted result.

Source: National Media Museum , around Engadget

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