#applied color

[twostriptechnicolor]

(1937)

[twostriptechnicolor]

A Ball in Pathécolor (from Casanova, 1927) Unlike other early color processes profiled here, Pathecolor (developed in the late 1900s) was an artificial color process - and a highly effective one. Using a pantograph and a projected master print, stencils were cut out on copies of the film -one for each color to be applied (Usually 3 to 6). The final print was then run through machines (again, one for every color), in perfect register with the stencils, where the corresponding tints were applied. Despite being mechanized, Pathecolor was a slow and labor intensive procedure, and was usually reserved for prestigious productions and documentaries until it was phased out around 1930.

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1854, [beautifully hand painted daguerreotype portrait of a gentleman], John Jabez Edwin Mayall

via  Harvard University's Houghton Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harrison D. Horblit Collection of Early Photograph

[vintage3d]

Bulgarians in traditional clothing, ca. 1900–1910. Applied color.

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1860's, [ambrotype portrait of a gentleman, propped up with pillows on a bed, holding a large book]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1860's, [an unusually close, off-center ambrotype portrait of pensive young man with light goatee]

via Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, Skylight Gallery

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1849, [daguerreotype with applied color, handwritten note inserted in case, "Dr. MacBeth in the costume in which he crossed the plains, fleeing from the cholera of which he died"]

via the George Eastman House Collection