BRITISH COLOR FILMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1921, Page 8

BRITISH COLOR FILMS.

t NEW PROCESS INVENTED.

Mr. Claude Friese-Greene, son of the late inventor of has produced a remarkable now series of films taken in natural color. A Daily Express correspondent says that these films, properly finned out under firstclass laboratory conditions, will bo as good as any yet put on the market, not excluding even the prizma-colored films ■from America. •

“One impressive picture.” the writer goes on to say. “showed a glass bowl containing water into which various dyes were slowly dropped. Another showed Trafalgar Square in the full tide of traffic, with many well-marked colorings, such as those on the motor ’buses, brought out. There were pictures of gorgeous butterflies, a run with the West Sussex hounds, and a long series of flowers, including roses, calceolarias. cinerarias, geianiums, and tulips. A certain amount of ‘fringing’ was unavoidable under the conditions of projection. There was also a scene that introduced the full chromatic scale. These films can he produced at a cost of about one farthing a foot more than the ordinary black and white films, and there is only one variation from the usual printing process. They can be shown through any ordinary projector, as the colors are all embodied in the completed film.” Almost the last words that the late Mr. Friese-Greene said to his son were: “I am glad that I have lived to sec the completion of a British process in colored cinematography.” One can only hope that Mr. Claude Friese-Greene’s commercial instinct is more strongly developed than was that of' hjs father, who made millions for others, and died almost in want.