Back in the late 1950s, I discovered these exact scenes on two Castle Films "old-time-movies" collections. These particular scenes were incorrectly described as "flickers", because they did just that. Fortunately we had a 1913 edition of "The Book of Knowledge", in which Kinemacolor was described. Based on this, I modified my movie editor so that alternate frames would be shown through red and green filters. The results looked remarkably like (although not quite as good as) this video!
@NCC6116 To recreate the color, I used After effects. I separated the green pass from the red pass, tinted the green pass red and the red pass green, then superimposed one pass over the other (overlay). This kinemacolor record turned out to be panchromatic rather than orthochromaic, so by tweaking the green to a cyan/green and the red to an orange/red, I was able to also reproduce some blue tones. Take a look at the woman in the bathing suit (1:11) as she moves her arms.
Wow...that's really cool. It's a pity color photography wasn't perfected sooner, it would have been interesting to see more films from the early 20th c.
There are 2 records on the strip of film-one red and one green. But they look black and white? If you are familiar with photoshop, take an image and look at the different "channels" settings for the image. When you turn of everything except one channel, the image is B & W. That is what I worked with here a print that had a red channel and a green channel. By step printing and cross coloring the film, I re-created the color (see comment I posted May, 2011).
Hi, I wanted to know how did you get these films. Do they come from the "The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt" DVD, or do you have a different source? Thanks for sharing this nice video!
Too bad they OVERDID THE FLICKER!! By 1906 most the projectors were far better with less black time between frames. By 1910, Chaplin was on the scene at Keystone, and would NEVER have made that jump from vaudeville with such poor projection. It was not all about money with Chaplin. He was a perfectionist in ALL phases of production. Yes, earlier silent film moved at 18 frames/sec, but looked quite natural in terms of speed and steady image in the period theatres. FINALLY, today the silents are being restored to something closer to original. It is not easy with paper-negatives that are 100 years old!
Back in the late 1950s, I discovered these exact scenes on two Castle Films "old-time-movies" collections. These particular scenes were incorrectly described as "flickers", because they did just that. Fortunately we had a 1913 edition of "The Book of Knowledge", in which Kinemacolor was described. Based on this, I modified my movie editor so that alternate frames would be shown through red and green filters. The results looked remarkably like (although not quite as good as) this video!
@NCC6116
To recreate the color, I used After effects. I separated the green pass from the red pass, tinted the green pass red and the red pass green, then superimposed one pass over the other (overlay).
This kinemacolor record turned out to be panchromatic rather than orthochromaic, so by tweaking the green to a cyan/green and the red to an orange/red, I was able to also reproduce some blue tones.
Take a look at the woman in the bathing suit (1:11) as she moves her arms.
Wow...that's really cool. It's a pity color photography wasn't perfected sooner, it would have been interesting to see more films from the early 20th c.
The first couple of clips would have caused seizures.
very very interesting. Thanks for this video from Barcelona!
I found that zooming out considerably helped to better view the film.
DeBergeracProd ✨truly, amazing to see this, and, breath king to look at.
That was 'breathtaking.'
There are 2 records on the strip of film-one red and one green. But they look black and white? If you are familiar with photoshop, take an image and look at the different "channels" settings for the image. When you turn of everything except one channel, the image is B & W. That is what I worked with here a print that had a red channel and a green channel. By step printing and cross coloring the film, I re-created the color (see comment I posted May, 2011).
Awesome!
it looks scaryyyy
Interesting... =)
Interesting, but I think it might give someone a seizure.
seizure-ma-color?
Wow! Those ladies sure had short skirts for 1908! LOL!
Hi,
I wanted to know how did you get these films. Do they come from the "The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt" DVD, or do you have a different source?
Thanks for sharing this nice video!
how did you seperate the channels from each other?, i have after effects aswell.
do i use the invert effect for the film negative look?.
@FalconKPD at .23
and i mean what pluging?.
New line Kinema presents....
Too bad they OVERDID THE FLICKER!! By 1906 most the projectors were far better with less black time between frames. By 1910, Chaplin was on the scene at Keystone, and would NEVER have made that jump from vaudeville with such poor projection. It was not all about money with Chaplin. He was a perfectionist in ALL phases of production. Yes, earlier silent film moved at 18 frames/sec, but looked quite natural in terms of speed and steady image in the period theatres. FINALLY, today the silents are being restored to something closer to original. It is not easy with paper-negatives that are 100 years old!
Hello, there was a norm at 16fps, but it was not really respected. This is why we find many different frame rates for silent films.