FILMS IN COLOUR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21758, 24 March 1934, Page 12 (Supplement)

FILMS IN COLOUR

NEW BRITISH iPROCESS EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA News of a recently-perfected process for making films in colour was brought to Australia last week by Mr. Donald Geary, who arrived at Fremantle by the liner Narkunda. Mr. Geary, who is an engineer of Ravcol British Corporation, Limited, has come to Australia to demonstrate and train technicians in the use of the process, which is known as the Raycol colour process and will be. used by an Australian film producing company.

Mr. Geary said the prooess was a British invention and £250,000 was spent in experimenting before it was perfected. The new process differed entirely from the old method of colouring films, in that no colour was used on the film itself, the colour being introduced into the picture by the use of a double lens. One particular advantage which he claimed for the process was the elimination of blurring.

In the new method the work was carried out by projecting to the screen two pictures which struck the screen exactly on top of one another. In photographing any scene, two filters of different colours were used and in accordance with certain principles, two primary colours were combined in each instance to give the film the natural colour required. A great advantage was that the films could be made for the same cost as black-and-white films.