CINEMATOGRAPH DEVELOPMENTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18216, 29 October 1924, Page 12

CINEMATOGRAPH DEVELOPMENTS.

A NEW COLOUR FILM. (from ora owsr cobkespondest.) LONDON, September 24. A ne w system of producing picture films in natural colour was demonstrated at Princes Restaurant last week by Mr Claude FneseGreene, son of the inventor of practical commercial cinematography. It is reported that Mr Claudo FrieseGreene's invention has been hailed by American experts as the most notable contribution to films since the business was lounded bv his father, thirty years ago. '-There arc American colour-systems, such as JVhiucolour, which are equal to Mr FrieseGrecne's, 'but whereas lechmcolour, it is said, costs nearly two shillings per foot, and occupies sixteen weeks m production, the British invention costs threepence end takes six hours. It could have been sold at a price in America, which has guaranteed to take practically the entire output, but Sir Beresfordi Wbyte, chairman of the company formed to market the process, said that it "had been decided to keep the invention in this country and to demonstrate it to the public in the form of topical films, which will reach the theatres in a few weeks' films shown covered such divers© subjects as Hampton Court flower beds, goldfish in a pond, beach bathing episodes, Cenotaph scenes on Armistice Day, omnibuses in Whitehall, a mannequin parade, regiments on the march, the changing of the guard at St. James's Palace, and Mi* Hope Hampton and Miss Flora le Breton in characteristic poses. Theio was little or no "fringing" of the colour outline, and flesh tints were perfectly reproduced.