KINEMACOLOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 5

KINEMACOLOR.

TRIUMPH IN PHOTOGRAPHY. The long-discussed question of how to make moving pictures with the actual colours that they possess in their natural state, has apparently been, solved by Kinemacolor, the invention of Charles Urban, which was shown at the Sydney Lyceum Theatre on Saturday, December 29, for the first time in Australia. The process consists of the adaptation of certain principles of colour photography to a system by which the tints are filtered through on to films which have been specially prepared. When the Kinemacolor Camera works, a pair of carefully selected light filters sift the colour waves of. the scene, and permit them to be recorded separately, and in due proportion. When the film bearing these colour records is subsequently run through a special motion picture machine fitted with somewhat similar filters, the colour waves are again set in motion, and as the proportions of coloured light then served out to the observers are the same as at the outset, the original scene as reconstructed, as it were, to the eye. The chief picture on Saturday (says the Telegraph) was an excellent representation of the Durban at Delhi. Perhaps no better subject could have been selected to demonstrate the ad- i vantages of the Kinemacolor. All this gorgeous pageant cf Indian ceremony, with its myriads of dazzling colours, was shown absolutely true to nature. The soft blue of the Indian summer sky, richly caparisoned elephants, all were accurately thrown on the screen. The film was heartily applauded. Another picture, showing incidents of Miss Lillie Smith’s swim in the Solent from Portsmouth to Hyde, was an excellent illustration of sea-tints. Pictures of bouquets of flowers, with all their varied colours shown as though they were real and not merely representations, were al;o proi£:t;d.