MOVING PICTURES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 April 1913, Page 5

MOVING PICTURES.

IN NATURAL COLOURS

From the earliest days of the bioscope, the problem of coloured pictures has taxed the energies of innumerable workexs in that field, but the demonstration of a series of films taken by the "Chronochrome" process which, was given at the Coliseum recently suggests that the difficulty has been effectively surmounted. Hitherto, the best results have been obtained by a process in which green and red have been used as the two primary colours, the red and, green pictures being thrown' on the "screen in rapid succession. The effect was strikingly successful, but the "Chronoc.hromo"* method goes one better. In this, three .primary colours are used —red, green, and a blue-violet. Three pictures are taken simultaneously by the one camera, and they .and projects ed on to the screen in the same way. By a method similar to that of the three-colour process in printing, the pictures are blended on the screen into one harmonious whole, and nature's tints are obtained with wonderful fidelity. Hitherto it has been difficult to obtain in coloured films the correct shades of violet and mauve, but ?n the present process that obstacle has l>een overcome. The pictures have a much .softer appearance than earlier atteinots. and 1 no strain upon .the eyesight is imposed.