The world's oldest colour film discovered in Bradford (circa 1902)

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11 жыл бұрын

Film historians in Bradford have found what they believe to be the first colour film ever made. The reel of film was discovered in the archives of the National Media Museum, and dates back 110 years. Until now it's been widely believed that colour cinematography was invented in 1908, but experts say this news re-writes the history of early film making. Nicola Rees reports for BBC Yorkshire.

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@TheReviewSpace 9 жыл бұрын

It's such a shame he never got to see it in full color.

@amojak 3 жыл бұрын

he no doubt took single frames and overlayed them with filters so he could see it worked, but not being able to make it move must of been hell.

@Bundalaba 2 жыл бұрын

Well he saw it LIVE so that's something. The lesson here is Pioneering always have worth

@LidJo1686 2 жыл бұрын

Seeing a film this old in color makes me want to tear up because it just feels more real, the fact that these were real people that went through life without even knowing a film of them would resurface 110 years later. This is probably one the closest things we’ll ever get to see how people lived their lives back then without the limitation of a black and white screen, it’s chilling to think about.

@raliixaviero4674 5 жыл бұрын

Still better quality than those “ufo sighting” videos, smh

@fringestream990 5 жыл бұрын

r a l i ‘ i x a v i e r o or security cam footage after a robbery

@matthewcabassa8791 3 жыл бұрын

You do have to focus the lense.

@Frozo-nt2ky 3 жыл бұрын

This is remastered

@narodwpsanialy1940 3 жыл бұрын

Actually the quality of fottage was pretty good in the old times (the movie quality was much worse). And yes this is 1902 so it's nearly 1800's

@user-mp2el7ln1n 2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@michaelterry1000 6 жыл бұрын

Wild, he invented something that no one saw for over 100 years. He couldn't imagine the technology that allowed his invention to work.

@adelaluz 9 жыл бұрын

Many years ahead of technicolor

@taymur0804 8 жыл бұрын

Oh yes your very right!

@raliixaviero4674 6 жыл бұрын

This was tinted films, technicolor used cameras that pick up color

@MadBiker-vj5qj 5 жыл бұрын

@@raliixaviero4674 Er, no. The commentary makes it clear that this is true colour filming.

@Frozo-nt2ky 3 жыл бұрын

@@MadBiker-vj5qj if so, then it’s a very primitive kind

@jessicamunguia614 9 жыл бұрын

This is just stunning, honestly (:

@seedfree5507 4 жыл бұрын

@The American holy shit this is getting deep.

@tabakinam7053 Жыл бұрын

Are u still alive?

@IronPiedmont 9 жыл бұрын

I wonder how people would react to this in 1902. They would've lost their absolute shit over this.

@Empress1Ganja 9 жыл бұрын

ikr lol

@ldchappell1 9 жыл бұрын

***** I was born in the mid 1950s and I'm still amazed at a lot of things that are possible today. I was amazed in 1977 the first time somebody showed me a VCR. I remember saying "Wow. You mean you can actually record the picture right off the TV and watch it whenever you want? That's so cool!" The thought of being able to watch any movie you wanted in your living room when you wanted to watch it was like a dream.

@ldchappell1 8 жыл бұрын

***** I think photography itself was one of the greatest inventions of all time. It's as close as we'll ever get to going back in time. Color photography is also amazing, although I don't think it was commonly used until the mid 60s. The color snapshots in our family album don't start until 1966. We have a lot of those 40s and 50s black and white shots with the curly edges.

@limechecksout 8 жыл бұрын

+Dutch_Atlantic_13 After a long long time, our comments meet again

@IronPiedmont 8 жыл бұрын

Kingdom Of Prussia Have we met before, I may have forgotten who you are.

@justanotheryoutubechannel 5 жыл бұрын

That’s insane, from 1902. And it’s still intact too! I’m really shocked it’s survived over 110 years of nitrate degradation.

@darthkrator9366 2 жыл бұрын

Have you seen them restore old film

@akibrahman7983 6 жыл бұрын

This is 115 years ago

@rosalbamanzo8094 5 жыл бұрын

More like 116

@ting6161 5 жыл бұрын

@@rosalbamanzo8094 this comment is 1year ago dumbass

@rosalbamanzo8094 5 жыл бұрын

@@ting6161 I'm saying that to update what he or she said

@Cyrus_got_verified 5 жыл бұрын

Sawa Sawa dumbass

@420sakura1 5 жыл бұрын

116 years old

@americannobody27 4 жыл бұрын

People would've fallen out their seats to see something like this back then!

@bigmoniesponge 3 жыл бұрын

Most people probably hadn’t ever seen a video back then, as it very new technology.

@recordplayermusicmann 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Hope someday Turner's descendants can see this. And it's wonderful that Edward decided to film his children for the first "color" film ever made. Also, about the children, they were Alfred Raymond, Agnes Mae, and Wilfred Sydney. Appearing in that order on the film. Agnes died in 1920, but Wilfred and Alfred surprisingly lived into their 90's. Wonderful.

@FlemingLynge 10 жыл бұрын

It seems to me that what they consider "oldest colour film" in this piece is the earliest natural 3-color process: the oldest process to use the 3 color separations needed for full color images. In this case shot on one strip of film using a rotating filter, which means that the separate color images are shot in sequence, not simultaneously as with Technicolor of the early 30s. Thus, fast moving subjects show distinct color fringing also seen in the 2-color process Kinemacolour (especially when superimposed onto a single frame as done digitally here). I believe I read in the London Science Museum monogram that Kinemacolour also had filter issues on their projectors that made them have to resort to the red-green filters only - several years after this film was recorded.

@hanoona555555 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Sir for your valuable information.

@jsl151850b 3 жыл бұрын

Sequential color was used on early Apollo TV cameras.

@boaoftheboaians 5 жыл бұрын

How nostalgic Shame he never saw it in his life :(

@wonderfullife737 7 жыл бұрын

RIP those kids... can't believe they became older then us and died :(

@forcedtohaveahandle 5 жыл бұрын

wonderfullife how is that hard to believe? we're all gonna die one way or another one day..

@frostyfire3102 5 жыл бұрын

hey you never know, one of them may still be alive

@livelyhood2963 5 жыл бұрын

@@frostyfire3102 atleast their children must see this

@2legit2quit70 5 жыл бұрын

@PlayingWithFilipinoPlaysRBLX they could be in hell 🤔 maybe they grew up to be Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini

@hughjanus6351 4 жыл бұрын

aamburgey69 how this is 115 years ago

@peterraymond8470 2 жыл бұрын

It's so sad think those happy children in the movie lost their father at such an early age.

@Bigbadwhitecracker 7 жыл бұрын

I guess there's 13 people who don't think that this amazing film has enough special effects to keep their attention span going for merely 20 seconds.

@mlouisept5557 7 жыл бұрын

nnn

@ChristianYoga 7 жыл бұрын

now 15

@garyproffitt669 7 жыл бұрын

Goons watch Ytube in colour is the hypnosis.

@ayushghosh265 7 жыл бұрын

now 19

@paullubliner6221 6 жыл бұрын

It isn't amazing. You slept through the part where they'd explained his not making it work.

@IceCreamMeatballs 9 жыл бұрын

Sad those kids probably died in WW1

@sQWERTYFALIEN2011 6 жыл бұрын

. . . . in World War One !

@Konigdok 4 жыл бұрын

Or in world war three, which disappeared from History through Time travel...but some people can and could still remember....Like my grand-grandfsther, He Had Schizophrenia, but when He tould me about History and the entire universe, you could feel it was true....He tould twenty years ago about reptiolids, but Had a Other Name for it. Die you know, that there are ppanets Out there which Robots with a.i or the personality of the biological Population of the peoplr who inbented IT. Amazing, best teacher i ever head

@brolymaininfighterz962 4 жыл бұрын

@@Konigdok what drugs you on

@Konigdok 4 жыл бұрын

@@brolymaininfighterz962 i don't want to geht offencive with my answer. I just say, do want to insinuate, that my grandfathdr Lied top a 6 year old, innocent boy? That's really not very respectful

@brolymaininfighterz962 4 жыл бұрын

@@Konigdok oh so that why you cant spell *_your 6_*

@Kernowcornwall 10 жыл бұрын

Come on people, that is pretty amazing...

@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621 2 жыл бұрын

It's such a shame there is no mechanical projectors available today, only digital ones..

@martinhughes2549 6 жыл бұрын

I think this is actually the first attempt at an additive colour process using panchromatic film&a filter wheel. A precursor of KinemaColour. Fascinating viewing.

@stocker4437 7 жыл бұрын

Imagine how people back then would act if you time traveled back and showed them some KZfaq videos.

@tsoonda3326 4 жыл бұрын

@Girl On A Quest Not if you bring an ak 47

@tsoonda3326 4 жыл бұрын

@Girl On A Quest *TANKS*

@buddyclem7328 4 жыл бұрын

Problem is, that mobile Internet was really slow in 1902.

@narodwpsanialy1940 3 жыл бұрын

@Girl On A Quest A armored vehicle? A M35 Helmet? Well try stopping a 120mm APFSDS

@derpydino17 2 жыл бұрын

@@buddyclem7328 I don't think the internet existed until the 1940s. Even then, it was only used in the military.

@GAMERfReAk692 4 жыл бұрын

aahhh, that's what Turner was missing... a computer

@robandrews4815 5 жыл бұрын

The parrot may be the only creature still alive now. They do live to be over 110 years old.

@am74343 10 жыл бұрын

There were literally dozens of different early "color processes" being developed in those days, all by different people at the same time during the same era. Some were dual-tone (2-strip) green and red, cyan and orange, magenta and yellow, or any other variation you can imagine. Some were 3-strip (a la Technicolor's red, blue, green). Some were developed in sepia tones, then "re-bathed" in tinted dyes later on. Some were filmed with a "tinted" filter on the camera lens, and then re-exposed with another different "tinted" filter to achieve a colored effect. Anyway, my point in saying this is that the title "oldest color film" has to have a specific criteria attached to it. Is this 1902 "oldest color film" the oldest color film that used a one-step color emulsion? (In other words, are all the colors contained within a single piece of film, and then developed as one single film strip?) I think that is the point in question.

@asiaram1999 9 жыл бұрын

am74343 As far as I remember from the other source, the method used in this film was interesting - first frame was tinted red, the second one - green, the third one - blue, the 4th - again red and so on. And as the projector displays it at a 12 or 14 fps speed, they kind of blend together i n human eye, but sometimes you can see "the stray colour" - especially at the parrot part.. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

@martinhughes2549 6 жыл бұрын

Muza Vario All colour film systems up to 1935 used additive techniques to capture various colours . Kodachrome was the first chromegenic Colour film. AgfaColor was close behind and GasparColor was developed by the mid 1930s. Tecnicolor used 4 consecutive processes before system 4 in 1932. This used a beam splitter filters and a bipack to produce 3 b&w records of each primary colour. This was then used to produce printing matrixices to print on a receiver film. The film print was a subtractive colour print that was literally printed; similar to a magazine print. No colour chromegenic film was used to do this.

@kayden2119 6 жыл бұрын

am74343 nerd

@nikoflow_fm9541 5 жыл бұрын

This is literally beautiful to watch

@goodbyeworldhelloalgorythm1871 3 жыл бұрын

this made me very emotional

@patrixspringer2753 9 жыл бұрын

Amazing! (It was also fun to see Basil Fawlty at the museum!)

@Captain_Yorkie1 4 жыл бұрын

Leeds: oldest film in 1888 Bradford: Ha, oldest colour film in 1902 Leeds: Damn you Bradford. Well still number one.

@GODOFLIQUOR 4 жыл бұрын

That sucks, he made the first color film then died a year later and his family got left behind

@sQWERTYFALIEN2011 6 жыл бұрын

After seeing Historic Photos and Movies in Back and White , it gives History Life the way people saw with their own eyes , in Color ! WOW !

@thegreatelfinko Жыл бұрын

Truly fantastic. I had no idea anybody did anything in color this long ago. It would never have been played other than the computer being invented. Obviously the kids are born in the 1800s. The mother probably in the 1870s. So cool to look back in time like this

@1989NickyD 9 ай бұрын

So sad that he died at the age of only 29.

@amojak 3 жыл бұрын

just imagine inventing a process you know will work and became the basis of modern colour images, yet you could not make a means of displaying it before you died. What a serious frustration but hats off to those that looked after this film for all these years.

@adelaluz 9 жыл бұрын

I simply love your accent. Splendid narrative

@southlondon86 9 жыл бұрын

Move to the UK then.

@southlondon86 9 жыл бұрын

Yes sir.

@southlondon86 9 жыл бұрын

Calm down mister!

@MikinessAnalog 4 жыл бұрын

Computah

@alexpalmer9101 10 жыл бұрын

Even artificial color on film was revolutionary for its time. This is beautiful work.

@yank3656 5 жыл бұрын

thanks for sharing YorksBestBits

@renegadeace1735 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine how crazy it'd be if that baby was still alive. If she was 2 she'd be 121 years old, which is just a year below the longest life ever lived 122.

@chrislaw4189 6 ай бұрын

That baby isn't still alive. No one has lived to 120 in this millennium.

@renegadeace1735 6 ай бұрын

@@chrislaw4189 i know it's not, I'm just if she was wow

@elderlypoodle9181 6 жыл бұрын

Oh !!!! What a beautiful video.

@zoey__m 4 жыл бұрын

How beautiful is this! It's kind of bitter-sweet.

@InfiniteUniverse88 7 жыл бұрын

If there is anyone alive today who knew those people in this video, it would be nice to see them interviewed. I'd imagine the people in the film told a lot of people about the historic film.

@zoey__m 4 жыл бұрын

How I wish this could be true!

@eliezerlogronio 5 жыл бұрын

That looks amazing.I'm hoping that someone can have it digitally restored and remastered :)

@justanotheryoutubechannel 5 жыл бұрын

This is really cool! I can tell his system was flawed however, the colour binding on moving objects especially.

@tedkaczynski3126 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the system was flawed because it was 1902, genius.

@CapAnson12345 4 жыл бұрын

My Great Grandmother died in 1981. She was fairly old (to me) at 78. She was not yet born when this footage was made. Amazing.

@Lardenoy Жыл бұрын

Ma grand-mère, née en 1898, décédée en 1979, avait 4 ans en 1902, son futur époux, déjà 12 ans... J'ai des photos de ma grand-mère vers 1902-1903 (en noir et blanc, dans des pauses très figées) mais voir ces enfants bouger, sourire, quelle différence !

@BrentonClark00 10 жыл бұрын

there was a color photo in 1861, but I guess we're talking about film here lol

@user-vm6oz6wt5g Жыл бұрын

Wow. Amazing. I love this story so much.

@brollowz2912 5 жыл бұрын

I can’t believe there is footage so old, that I was born 100+ years after this masterpiece of beauty. I hope we see some more like this but it’s highly unlikely. Still I’m ok with this tiny film. Cute children, sunflowers and a parrot.

@SkarletBloodthirsty 2 жыл бұрын

Oh myyy! Amazing! Looks like it was shot this way

@emilys3458 Жыл бұрын

Simply wonderful!!

@QQWEERTTYUUI 9 жыл бұрын

1:32 VERY INTERESTING!!

@OofusTwillip 4 жыл бұрын

David Cleveland, the expert in historical film equipment, was Prof, on "Vision On"! The "It's Prof" segments were surreal little silent comedy films.

@meikovocaloidandtoybonnie1484 9 жыл бұрын

That parrot is DEAD

@MadMan400096 9 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and so is everyone else in the film.

@kingkongzilla34 9 жыл бұрын

This... is and EX parrot.

@crowamonghens 9 жыл бұрын

kingkongzilla34 it's just sleeping

@taymur0804 8 жыл бұрын

yes your right but I'm glad he recorded a very special parrot.

@taymur0804 8 жыл бұрын

True

@johneysupergd7796 10 жыл бұрын

I suppose he used 3 b&w camera's with each a red, green and a blue color filter on it to filter the right color out of it. Then he tryed to reverse the procces by using a color spinning wheel with the 3 rgb color filters on top of each other, but that reflected light from the spinning wheel has to be combined to form the compleet image, he ditn't manage to do that, so the footage has to wait a110 years to finaly get back alive to be in color.

@taymur0804 8 жыл бұрын

wow that's is so good Because I learned all about Edward Turner

@flyinspirals 8 жыл бұрын

The presenter says, 'but he had a problem: his projector didn't work' -- I guess that's intended to mean that his design was unsuccessful, but it could just as well mean his projector was broken. Come on, writer.

@johnalanelson 6 жыл бұрын

I'm sure what he meant was that he couldn't figure out how to project it so that all three images were aligned.

@Franeeky 5 жыл бұрын

Fascinating!

@kfl611 2 жыл бұрын

I so hope you digitize as much of this as you can.

@4nt4r4y 3 жыл бұрын

Sad to learn that he died only a year after he filmed his kids in color

@kdotcondones. 3 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly its better quality than some smudged videos

@rcababy9383 10 жыл бұрын

I have a couple a videos up, of a 1954 RCA Ct-100 first color TV. Will be up for sale 5/1/14.

@BobDiaz123 29 күн бұрын

He had the right idea for the camera, but too bad the projector was a total nightmare. IF he had gone with 3 lenses side by side, Red, Blue, & Green. The projector could have been a lot simpler. Now I'm fully aware that the slightly different horizontal positions for the lenses would create a bad mismatch of the 3 colors the closer something gets, but at farther away it would work.

@trailkeeper 10 жыл бұрын

As someone else mentioned below, color photographic/still image film ideas and processing goes back some dozen(s) of years earlier. I guess "natural color" is what this video is about, where the original light/photons of the image is used to expose the film of which it is recorded.

@Tmanaz480 5 жыл бұрын

Um... its all photons.

@Stellaluna88 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if any of his descendants are still alive and aware of his contributions.

@rajenderchhetri2051 3 жыл бұрын

Let's hope so

@alves6465 3 жыл бұрын

The bird is probably still alive.

@DethronerX 2 жыл бұрын

I wish we could continue to make all kinds of cameras and make films in mediums by choice and not be forced by digital, because art is boundless and If i want to make a film with a camera from 30s, I should be able to, instead of trying to do a fake film look that looks cheap

@memorycelle 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, it's so beautiful!

@daydr3ambeliever 3 жыл бұрын

Ah... The good old days, when you would hit a fish bowl with sunflowers for entertainment. Yes, those were simpler times. Sidenote: The little girl's hat is amazing-

@darthkrator9366 2 жыл бұрын

He was so close to having movies shown in full color. 3 projectors maybe?

@macsnafu 10 жыл бұрын

It seems that some of you are getting hung up on the title of this KZfaq video, which I agree is a bit misleading. But if you watch the video, it really does make it pretty clear what they're talking about. It's only 2 minutes 32 seconds of your life wasted--how long did it take you to write your YT comment?

@SonofGreece1821 2 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what the movie with the red and green people is? Thank you

@jimbob036 6 жыл бұрын

What film format is this? It looks like 35mm, but the sprocket holes are different...

@timsmythfilmsandanimations 6 жыл бұрын

it is probably 35mm. The Lumiere Bros. also had round sprocket holes in their films.

@glennjohnson8170 6 жыл бұрын

Glenn Johnson WONDERFUL.HISTORICAL!!

@chickennugget6306 3 жыл бұрын

How did I get to “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas” song to this....

@user-ll6fm6hz3u 6 жыл бұрын

It’s weird how I think the old days were literally black and white just because of the pictures 😂

@MadBiker-vj5qj 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. One thing that surprised me on seeing recently-discovered* colour film from the 30's and 40's was that the children had nice bright colourful clothes. I had alwqays thought of the clothes as being drab and grey up until them. *recently discovered back in the 1990's when I saw them.

@omarcavazos92 2 жыл бұрын

2:09 does someone know how to get that video effect or how its called?

@wisemankugelmemicus1701 9 жыл бұрын

Impressive. That's the quality that Alien had...WHICH WAS RELEASED IN 1978!

@justanotheryoutubechannel 5 жыл бұрын

Superimposing 3 images over each other with a projector is easy if you use enough mirrors. I bet you I could design a system that used effectively 3 projectors and some mirrors and a lens to create colour, probably using the same method I’m using for mechanical televisor.

@user-jp4od2bj5y 8 жыл бұрын

Speechless.

@pieapp4652 7 жыл бұрын

i wish. i hate brittish accents and the host is talking too much

@arazatliyev6564 Ай бұрын

Woow,that time is 1902 and a color film!!wooow...

@reyisagem5398 4 жыл бұрын

Damn so that’s how to world looked before color was invented 🤔

@Rivergirl2878 7 жыл бұрын

He died a year later. His poor children.

@garrybaldy327 3 ай бұрын

I'd forgotten how beautiful Nicola Rees was on Look North

@Alexander-vm2ox 4 жыл бұрын

we were quite advanced. old people make it out like cameras were only made like 1990s but weve been so advanced

@marcybaines2551 2 жыл бұрын

Credits in the description please.

@dai5839 3 жыл бұрын

Circa (from Latin, meaning 'around, about, roughly, approximately') - frequently abbreviated ca. or c. ... Circa is widely used in historical writing when the dates of events are not accurately known.Not exact date or year. used to sound intelligent

@sandrodream5418 7 жыл бұрын

I tought it was 4k video lol

@BenjaminBowling777 Жыл бұрын

First actual natural color film in 1902 and the world's first Jet plane in 1910 in Romania. Proven fact for both.

@caramelpro6949 4 жыл бұрын

Kinemacolor is the first color process/system in the motion picture industry

@SantiagoRevecoLepeReborn 4 жыл бұрын

0:50 That looks like a KZfaq video you've uploaded in 2008.

@JunaidWolf3 2 жыл бұрын

That’s sad that he didn’t even get to watch his kids grow up

@Del-Canada 3 жыл бұрын

These innovators are the people you can thank for your modern cell phone displays, among others.

@johneymute 10 жыл бұрын

that projectore may work BUT it needs to be extreamly exactly synchronisized with thse taken shots in order to get it to work. seriousely someone should,ve to give the hang on it to make it work.

@flatfingertuning727 6 жыл бұрын

It looks as though the camera captures one frame of red, then one green, then one blue, etc. and never actually captures a full frame of color. At a high enough frame rate, projecting the film likewise would probably yield decent results, but it would probably be necessary to use a frame rate of 100+fps or so to avoid flicker (to minimize flicker, normal 24fps projectors flash each frame twice, and 18fps projectors flash each frame three times. BTW, I think the images on this video might have looked better if the playback framerate were tripled, but the first image showed frames 1-3 of the original film, the next one showed 2-4, etc.