MOVIES IN COLOUR.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 November 1928, Page 5

MOVIES IN COLOUR.

PROCESS WITHIN SCOPE OF AMATEURS. Thanks to revolutionary discoveries in the Eastman msearch laboratories at Rochester, <"N. Y., cinematography in natural 5 ; colours now comes within the scope of amateurs. The invention, named “Kodacolor,” is considered, to bo as important as the introduction of the first Kodak by Mr George Eastman in 1888. Briefly, the process is this : A transparent gelatin© disc, divided into three sections representing the primary colours' —red. green, and blue-violet-L is placed on the lens of the cinci-kodak. As the light passes: through the disc it becomes; separated into- its appropriate colour group. The fi’,m itself ris embossed with thousands of tiny cylindrical; lenses, invisible to the naked eye. The light -rays', before being recorded on the sensitive surface, pass through these- myriad lenses, behind each of which three distinct microscopical black and white images are formed—one for each primary colour. A similar gelatine disc to that used on the cine-kodak is placed on the- Jen® of bh;3 projecting apparatus when the- pictures air© screened. The light of the projector passes through the film in such a way that it shines out through the- tiny, cylindrical lenses of the actual’ film. tihien through the coloured disc on the projector lens, each ray being distributed through its proper colour section. The result is a- perfect- picture in natural colours on the sore,?n . “Kodacolor” films are expected to be available in New Zea’andi before the end of the year.