http://vimeo.com/7638752#


I'm not sure if the process was used commercially or not but either way.......

Interesting that it was filmed under normal light; no arc lights, convex reflectors etc. Long shot of the Tower of London and close up of hand indicates that it was filmed in 3 colours. First use of three colour film? If it was filmed in colour rather than black & white hand tinted frame by frame then I reckon it's a first. With a gentle nudge in the right direction we could have been.............. Taa Raa (role of drums) THE FILM CENTER OF THE WORLD and Hollywood nothing more than a hill with prickly things on top.

combwork, purveyor of junk food for the mind.

Wow !

From Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Friese-Greene

[William] "Friese-Greene's later exploits were in the field of colour in motion pictures. Working in Brighton, he experimented with a system known as Biocolour. This process produced the illusion of true colour by exposing each alternate frame of ordinary black and white film stock through two different coloured filters. Each alternate frame of the monochrome print was then stained red or green. Although the projection of Biocolour prints did provide a tolerable illusion of true colour, it suffered from noticeable flickering and red and green fringing when the subject was in rapid motion."

"In 2006 the BBC ran a series of programmes called The Lost World of Friese-Greene, presented by Dan Cruickshank about Claude Friese-Greene's road trip from Land's End to John o' Groats, The Open Road, which he filmed from 1924 to 1926 using the Biocolour process.[7] The original print of Claude's film was subjected to computer enhancement by the British Film Institute to remove the flickering problem.[8]"

So this was two-color process, which you can see in the video as a lack of true greens, blues, or yellows - all colors are red-orange or cyan. Some people comment on how nice the color looks, but of course, it is limited. There was a lot of work done to develop true three-color processes, of which Technicolor eventually became the dominant technology until integral three-color films were developed.

For tons of info on early color processes, see:
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/index.htm

Its STILL neat, 2 color, 3 color or 4 color process..Short of going back to 1927, which at this date is IMPOSSIBLE, this gives us a glimpse on what was going on nearly 90 yrs ago, in one of the biggest cities on Earth...