COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1931, Page 8

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

A BRITISH INVENTION

LORD RUHTERFOR-D’S TRIBUTE

LONDON, May 29. Lord Rutherford was among those who visited the factories of Messrs Spicers, Limited, at Sawton, Cambridgeshire, yesterday, to inspect the new colour film process. A record was taken of the reception of the visitors, which included Fellows of the Royal Society, and the film, direct from the developing room,* was shown on the screen. “Fidelity of colour and pleasing balance,” says “The Times” correspondent, “were so evident that the visitors warmly applauded the demonstration. Other films, showing interior'and exterior studies, flowers at Kew and animals and birds at the Zoological Gardens, were also so excellent that the ideal of perfect natural colour in photography would seem to have been attained. .. The invention is British, and is the result of many years of experiment. It enables cinematograph pictures to he made in nearly all conditions of weather and light. The film case is printed with a matrix consisting of some 000,000 red, green, and| blue violet squares to the square inch, formed by a staining process. Over this ds coated a panchromatic emulsion of very high sensitivity. No special attachments to camera or rr°’ec.tor are required Ur use with the film, which is non-inflam-mable.”

A NEW INDUSTRY. - Lord Rutherford described the film us n.n. eminently scientific and undoubtedly cront Invention. He said that the long-haired variety of scientific men who dealt in their laboratories with more or less unpractical things had a verv considerable respect amd admiration for the men who could turn the«e expeiment.s to practical purposes, v" ~j. ] ia( ] l ee” 'l'”’,-, in the research department of the company had been carried out on a scientific method. It had gone on without the blast of trumpets, quietly, in the true scientific smirit of getting a competent article before it was Haded on the public. T\fr A. Dykes Snicer who nresided at P luncheon, said that the firm bad tried to leave no stone unturned to be a rosition to build nn a. film-making industry. for non-infl ’mm°ble film, in country and. wherever thought wise, throughout the world, and they belie'-ed they had an unrivalled process cf colour nhotonriyvnhv ■ which sliou’d l.jive universal use in due time. It shrndd he the start of a n»w indn«t’*v +KH coo.ntrv of vital and far-reach-inor importance. They hrrl well over oeiu wo V*l d no touts granted pnr] nearly oeo more hod been appliedjor* and were pending.