That is even more fascinating than The FSF.

Nothing is more fascinating than the FSF.

Technically it's not colour film, it's colour encoded.

OK, I guess a title for the thread that would have better reflected the technology would have been …
The Debut of Early 20^th Century Colour Movies via the Digitization and Decoding of Black and White Film Originally Encoded for Colour Presentation via a Mechanical Filter Wheel.

What do you think … I even used that funny spelling for color.

Thanks, that was cool. Somehow I ended up on the romanoarchives from there. I never know where I will end up when I look at something.... there is always something new to learn, something old/new to see or read.

Thanks again. I like this.

J

I'm hoping that Pedro can teach you all about the problems with sheet film and how we all were *confusing* the image because the multi layers are stacked so that each color ends up in a slightly different degree of focus.

Splitting the colors to adjacent collectors can make a much crisper light-drawing.

I'm hoping to learn which way is better... especially now that it's hard to know which way is the old fashioned way.

I was hoping that McQ would point out how restoration used to be better/easier/market savy before the proprietary dongle based systems came into existence. 

Before Gongle was never the same as After Gongle.

There are photos to prove it.

The cliché … everything old is new again … (IMHO) is applicable  in every facet of the human experience but is very true the development of “NEW” products and technologies.  There have always been really smart people around.  Sometimes, it just takes time the surrounding science to catch up before you can execute on a given technology.

Thanks for posting!

Hi,
 
Time never was that color wasn't!
 
The hard part, is that we're confusing a "film" with the reality and sometimes people actually think that the flowers never had color or the skyes were not blue! And that film was the "truth".
 
I, personally, and I love film, and know its history really well, find that these kinds of things are money wasted.
 
I supposed that I would like to see the Melies films colorized, and maybe the bosoms and the legs would look better? How about Busby Berkely? (... you can get a better Busby impression in Ken Russell, btw!!!!).
 
The technology of film, is what has given us "history" ... and I don't see that the bombing planes, or film in D-Day is that important to help us find something that we did not see before!
 
This is one of the greatest falacies in film, and the very same thing that gets us hooked on top ten. I find it bizarre, that we have to see it colorized for us to accept its reality, freedom, or living ... as if it wasn't true before, but it is now because color was added to it.
 
Sorry ... I find this bizarre, and a serious waste of money!
 
Might as well pay Bapu and the CHB to go play the instruments of 400 years ago, get them some real outfits ... they deserve the money a lot more and better! ... and it would look cool, too! I'll have to play Salieri, just for fun!
 

Yeah ok... but how do you feel about Fovean chip:

http://www.foveon.com/article.php?a=69