100th Anniversary of Kinemacolor
1908: Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion-picture process is demonstrated at a scientific meeting in Paris. 1908? Really? It seems as if most of the '30s movies were produced in black-and-white, with the occasional color blockbuster like Gone With the Wind . Even the 1940s seemed to reserve color for big-budget productions. Were color movies really around 100 years ago? Yes. But no. British inventor Edward Turner actually received a patent on a three-color motion picture process in 1899. The problem is, his system didn't work all that well. He teamed up with Charles Urban, an American expatriate who was already a force in the fledgling British film industry, in 1901. Turner died soon thereafter, and Urban put Albert Smith on the project. Smith couldn't make Turner's process function and decided in...
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