This rare reel of developed Kodacolor film, made in 1928 or 1929 is a home movie made by a wealthy Rhode Island family of a day at the family compound. This is 50 feet of 16mm lenticular film (the lenticles on the film are clearly visible). The film comes in its original 1928 Kodacolor Safety Film box. Very good condition! !
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Inmotion pictures,Kodak\'sKodacolorbrand was associated with an earlylenticular(additive color)color motion picture process, first introduced in 1928 for16mm film.[1]The process was based on theKeller-Doriansystem oflenticularcolor photography.
The process used a specialpanchromaticblack-and-white film stock used with theemulsionaway from the lens.[2]The film base in front of the emulsion was embossed with a mass of tiny lenses, the purpose of which was to form small images of a striped filter which was attached to the camera lens. The filter had three colored stripes (red, green and blue-violet); when an exposure was made the varying proportion of each color reflected from the subject passed through the filter and was recorded on the film beneath each of the embossed lenses as areas of strips in groups of three, each strip varying in density according to the received color value (Dufaycolorused similar principles, but had the filter as part of the film itself).
Filming required the camera to be used at f/1.9 only, so that the striped filter worked correctly. The original Kodacolor film required an exposure of about a 1/30 second at f/1.9 in bright sunlight representing a film \'speed\' (sensitivity) in modern terms of about 0.5 ISO. The physical movement of the film through the gate (frame-advance) requires additional time. The laterSuper Sensitive Kodacolorcould be used \"outdoors in any good photographic light, and even indoors under favourable conditions.\"
To project the film a projector was required fitted with theKodacolor Projection Filter, which is similar in appearance the filter fitted to the camera. The lenticular image on the film is transformed into a natural color picture on the screen. As with most color processes involving a lenticular image the pattern intrudes, and there is noticeable light loss.
While Kodacolor was a popular color home movie format, it had several drawbacks. It could not yield multiple copies easily, special film was necessary to shoot with, and the additive image was colorful and clear, but inherently darker than subtractive processes.
Lenticular Kodacolor was phased out after the introduction of 16mmKodachromefilm in 1935.
