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Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 19 (Supplement)

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ORDINARY SNAPSHOTS. IDEAS OF THE PIONEERS. That colour 'photography, like television, has at long last come to us is made evident by several new inventions in the field of photography in natural colours. The earlier methods give a transparent film in colours which must be looked through; but already two methods of making paper prints in colour have been invented, and these will soon be available to amateurs, so that they will be able to take their pictures in colour and send them to be developed and printed in colour.

In other directions many new inventions are being developed to give us colour films in the cinema. The delightful Walt Disney cartoons made by the technicolour process are known and loved by all children and most grownups. But recently coloured cinema films have been seen in English theatres made by fh e Dufaycolor process, and demonstrations have been given of many other colour systems. Before long the snapshot and the moving picture in natural colours will be accepted as an everyday thing like the gramophone and'wireless. The most romantic thing about colour photography is the number of vast fortunes spent and lost in bringing it into existence. Almost as soon as the first photographs had been taken in black and white inventors began to think about taking pictures in colours, and over and over again they have very nearly succeeded. It was the apparent ease with which the problem could be solved that caused hundreds of thousands of pounds to be invested in one process after another, and the stories of failure spread over the last half-century make sad reading. Eight hundred methods have beep patented!

The irony of it is that the methods that have at length given success are based on the very principles the pioneers worked out. Their ideas could not be put into practice simply because other chemical discoveries necessary to their carrying out had not been made. In the successes of the future we; must not forget the men of the past, such as Ducos du Hauron and Clerk-Maxwell.

“Sister,” Hawera: We are always pleased to receive recipes for our cookery corner, Tink, so if you have one you would like to send us we should be very glad. Hut gardener was pleased to hear about all your flowers being out, but he is wondering if the rain has spoilt them lately.

Daphne Waldron, Hawera: How pleased you all must be to have a little baby brother now. Baby Margaret is wondering if he will be a Wepdy Tink when he grows bigger. Will you please tell Leone that she may join the Hut whenever she likes so long as there will be letters from her occasionally.

Shirley Waldron, Hawera: Thank you for sending us a joke this time, Shirley, but I am afraid we are not going to have room for it on our page. There are such a lot of other things to be fitted in today. How is baby Murray? Tinker Bell is blowing a kiss to him now.

“Lilac,” Mt. Messenger: I wonder if you heard the Wendy Hut programme that was broadcast last week, Tink, for eveiy-one at the Hut heard it very well and they were pleased when they heard the reference to “Lilac” and Fairy Feet” and “Emu,” for those are some of the pen-names that they see most of al on our page.

“Fairy Feet,” Mt. Messenger: I can hear the Hut folk laughing hard so I think they must be reading your jokes, Tink. You sent us a good collection of them this time. Will you please thank “Lilac” too. Your school roses pave raced the'Hut ones this year. I wonder when they will be flowering again.

“Emu,” Mt. Messenger: Your letters are just like surprise packets, Tink, for they have something new in them every time! Billißins is very pleaded with this new nuzzle you have sent him, and he is going to take it straight to Hut gardener to see if he can work it out.

Sheila Eustace, Okato: Thank you for your piece of poetry about Mickey’s dog, and thank you fop the riddle too. Tinker Bell has been wondering about ycur pen-name, for she cannot remember your having one at all so far, and she cannot find it in her book, so would you like a new one to-day—“ Pearl Maiden?”

“Yellow Lupin,” Fitzroy: The sun is shining at the Hut now after a shower of rain and I can hear a skylark singing. Tinker Bell says skylarks always make her think of spring, so perhaps spring is very near now. Do you think it is?