Colour Pictures From Stock Film Is Aim of New, Powerful Syndicate

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 625, 30 March 1929, Page 21

Colour Pictures From Stock Film Is Aim of New, Powerful Syndicate

What is stated to be an epoch-making invention in the moving picture icorld has been announced by Mr. Fraunhofer, president of United Film Industries, Inc. It ivill enable the making of colour pictures from ordinary, stock film

In an interview Mr. Fraunhofer stated that a powerful group in America has purchased from Wolff Heide, an inventor, the rights of an invention involving an important new method of colour photography, says the Sydney “Daily Guardian.” The purchased price was £600,000, a sum which lends colour to the suggestion of importance. After experiments extending over 20 years, it is claimed, the inventor has solved the problem of making an emulsion which when applied to an ordinary photographic film will cause it to

chixnge into colours after development. Mr. Fraunhofer showed specimen films in a complete scale of colours. These pictures had been made with ordinary film cameras without special adjustments. Before exposure the negative films are run through a chemical bath, and later developed. Positives are similarly treated with chemical baths. Demonstration films will be completed in May, and, said Mr. Fraunhofer, by the end of the year the principal film companies will have adopted the process.