Olden Day Colours

This is a film of London, taken, in colour, in 1927

This process for colour film was created by William Friese-Greene in the last part of the Nineteenth Century, but it was his son, Claude, who created a series of moving pictures using his father’s process. The film itself is originally black and white, with each frame exposed through two different coloured filters, then stained either red or green – I think the film above resembles old hand coloured photos.

It’s amazing to think that there were colour films in the Twenties… but this one is supposed to be the earliest example, even though, to some historians, it may not have been entirely successful.
This shows clips from the film –