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Colour and film

When art meets science! The quest to make moving images colourful is as old as cinema itself. The techniques range from hand and stencil colouring to dye baths and complex chemical and mechanical processes. Some of them became popular selling points for the film works, like Technicolor, and were featured on the movie posters as part of the advertising campaigns. To find out more about the history and different techniques of colour in film also visit www.filmcolors.org.

EYE Film Museum

George Edwardes Hall; Herbert Brenon

EYE Film Museum

Marelli, Piero

National Museum of Cinema

Piacenza, Mario

National Museum of Cinema

Albert Mullens; F.A. Nöggerath jr; Willy Mullens

EYE Film Museum

National Museum of Cinema

Sainz de la Hoya, Ramón

Polytechnic University of Valencia

National Museum of Cinema

National Museum of Cinema

Louis H. Chrispijn sr

EYE Film Museum

National Library of Scotland

Bannister Merwin

EYE Film Museum

Museon-Omniversum

Luigi Micheletti Foundation

Cineteca di Bologna

Unknown

EYE Film Museum

Müllrose Local History Museum in the guest house

Zapater, Fernando

Polytechnic University of Valencia

William Humphrey

EYE Film Museum

Edwin S. Porter

EYE Film Museum

National Museum of Cinema