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Hand-coloured film

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It’s estimated that about 80% of films made between the 1890s and the 1920s were coloured through tinting, toning, stencilling and hand-colouring. This proces..

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Algorithmically related works from our collection by description:

Tinted film

Similarity: 80%

Kinemacolor

Similarity: 74%

Stencil colouring

Similarity: 74%

Natalie Kalmus

Similarity: 73%

Black and white: a creative leisure film

Australia, 1962
Similarity: 72%

[Pathe colour: hand stencil example]

France, 1905
Similarity: 72%

Nature of colour

United States, 1946
Similarity: 71%

Film appreciation: film as an art

United States, 1966
Similarity: 71%

Technicolor

Similarity: 71%

The History of the cinema

United Kingdom, 1958
Similarity: 70%

A Colour Box

United Kingdom, 1935
Similarity: 70%

Annabelle Butterfly Dance

United States, 1897
Similarity: 70%

Colour and the camera

United Kingdom, 1975
Similarity: 69%

Colour

United Kingdom, 1944
Similarity: 69%

Into a World of Colour

Similarity: 69%

Color and light: an introduction

United States, 1961
Similarity: 69%

Ink, paint, scratch

United States, 1979
Similarity: 69%

The Beginnings of the cinema

United Kingdom, 1903
Similarity: 69%
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