Rival Plates: Chronochrome, Dufay, Lippmann

The autochrome was not alone. Gaumont’s Chronochrome screened 1912 in natural colour, Dufay’s lines beat starch grids, and Gabriel Lippmann made colour without dyes at all — the processes that nearly won.

Playlist by @color_plate_birth

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. You've Never Seen a Real Photo — Steve Mould
  2. Martin Vetterli - Lippmann Photography: the Art and Science of Multispectral Imagery — Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)
  3. Jan Hubička - Digitally Reconstructing Early Color Process Photographs — Digital Transitions
  4. Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test — Kodak
  5. 1912 - Real Color Films of France (Gaumont Chronochrome) — arago86
  6. 1912 MAJORCA Chronochrome — ALLE JONG
  7. Gaumont Chronochrome Test - 1912 — RM Santos
  8. The Nile in Kinemacolor (1911) — arago86
  9. 1901/1902 - 8 preserved fragments of Edward Raymond Turner — Cinema in Public Domain (Domínio Público)
  10. The world's oldest colour film discovered in Bradford (circa 1902) — YorksBestBits
  11. How the teleprinter works (1940) [Dufaycolor] — Storytracer
  12. 1941 expired DUFAYCOLOR film — troysvisualarts
  13. BBC Pioneers Of Photography (1974) Early colour — VintageLynx
  14. Early example of Dufaycolor film from 1930 s showing life on a farm between the wars — SleepEatDRONErepeat