film
when the first movie was invented, the majority of the people were impressed and surprised. later on, people were no longer satisfied with it, they paint colors onto filmstock to have colors. A British man called George Albert Smith to decide to make some changes. He invented the kinemacolor.
Kinemacolor was the world’s first successful natural color motion picture system, it could successfully capture and reproduce the world in color. the Kinemacolor is worked by using a rotating filter with red and green sections to produce a restricted but credible color palette, then the color can be shown on a projector or cameras. because of the disadvantages such as high cost, require a specialized projector, and inconvenience, Kinemacolor was disused eventually by better technologies.
photography
When photography was first introduced. A sense of wonder was tempered by people that why the colors can not be captured. The search for a solution becomes the “holy grail” for photography. The first movie producer, Lumière brothers brought up another invention that changed the game of graphic, the autochrome process.
The autochrome process, also known as autochrome. Glasses were covered with dyed red, blue, green potato starch grains to create autochrome plates(about four million per square inch). When the photograph is taken, the light passes through the color plates to the photographic emulsion. After the plates are processed, transparency is produced. Light, pass through the colored starch grains combines and recreate a full-color image of the original subject. The colored photo usually takes longer to take a picture than black and white, but the resulting images were dreamily realistic and beautiful.
resource https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/autochromes-the-dawn-of-colour-photography/
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