1922 First Kodak Color Movie Technology Testing Video-Beautiful!

Wow this video is worth the watch, what a glimpse back in time, I wonder if any of these women considered how we would look back on each advancing level of technology such as this. How much further are we then they? Since that time nearly 90 years have passed and our own passion to move forward is matched by the competition of our ancestors.

Although the first full-length color movie wasn’t released until 1935, there were experiments in color well before then. This film test was produced by Kodak in 1922; the original film was only recently scanned to create this digital version. The color palette is pale, almost otherworldly, due to the process used to transform the black-and-white negative stock into color moving pictures.
This isn’t the oldest example of color motion picture, but it is a fascinating example from the birth of a new technology. According to George Eastman House, the repository for early Eastman Kodak film stock, the two-color system used to create color in early film was a subtractive color system. “Shot with a dual-lens camera, the process recorded filtered images on black/white negative stock, then made black/white separation positives. The final prints were actually produced by bleaching and tanning a double-coated duplicate negative (made from the positive separations), then dyeing the emulsion green/blue on one side and red on the other.”
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That puts a smile somewhere inside. What an amazing video.

Nice find
You would think that if they are testing "color" filming they would use some clothing or objects with more/brighter colors. Silly Kodak.

You'd think they'd have remembered to load the cameras with that when they visited the moon 47 years later.....
Silly Billys

Insane to ponder, 90 years ago. The ladies here would mid 20ish?

Had they had a daughter around that time, she would be around 90 years old herself. Her daughter would be possibly 65-70, hers 35-40 and hers around 15-20...

Their great, great grand daughter never knew them.. But this video makes them look like this was taken last week.

So long ago, I wonder who they were.. Rather melancholy now...

I'm a big fan of the silent film era, so this was a real treat to see. Thanks for sharing it!

So eerie watching things like this, makes you wonder about the people in the footage, who were they? what did they do.

After they filmed this the ladies in the video would have left the studio and got on with the rest of their lives unaware that some crazy conspiracy nutters would be watching it on a forum on a wee thing called the internet in the year 2011.

So even the 1st color motion film was pornographic? Considering the time period that is.

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No problem, it kinda overwhelmed me. Gave me sunshine on this gloomy rainy day.

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I know right!!!
It seems so surreal, I wondered the same thing. I wonder if in the year 2111 if some guys will be talking about how astonished we were by this movie too, and how they are astonished by the whole thing!

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I know seems a bit revealing for such a long time ago. But you know they wanted to capture that special 5 second clip of a woman smiling. What joy.

Staring history in the face, plus that music.. = I felt like crying like a baby..
No idea why it made me feel like that..

Then youtube made it SO much better by suggesting victorian post mortem pictures of infants...

The part at 1:25 with the girl and the little boy, I wonder how their life panned out... both probably passed away by now, a small snippet into there long life.

Man..
This just in, Hologram footage of creatures that walked on this planet 1b years ago!

Seriously anyone else think something like this?
90 years is just a spec

Mae Murray is the final lady.
Apparently she was an actress that starred with Valentino and others of that era.

welcome to the year 2011ladies....

You are now immortal for you in your youth have been captured via the internet. this was such a cool video!

so... why we still get those grainy UFO pics ? This one is much better than what your handphone can capture. 90 years and still no progress.