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Color photography is photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white or gray- monochrome photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray . In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record ...
A Crayola ad from 1905. After several decades producing commercial pigments, Binney & Smith produced their first crayon, the black Staonal Marking Crayon, in 1902. The following year, the company decided to enter the consumer market with its first drawing crayons. The name Crayola was suggested by Alice Binney, wife of company founder Edwin ...
Technicolor. "Technicolor is natural color" Paul Whiteman stars in an ad for his film King of Jazz from The Film Daily, 1930. Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating back to 1916, [1] and followed by improved versions over several decades. Definitive Technicolor movies using three black-and-white ...
Kodachrome is the brand name for a color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. [2] It was one of the first successful color materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography. For many years, Kodachrome was widely used for professional color photography, especially for images intended for publication in print media.
Excerpt from the surviving fragment of With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), the first feature-length film in natural colour, filmed in Kinemacolor. This is a list of early feature-length colour films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major ...
Timeline The oldest surviving camera photograph, by Nicéphore Niépce, 1826 or 1827 View of the Boulevard du Temple, first photograph including a person (on pavement at lower left), by Daguerre, 1838 First durable color photograph, 1861 An 1877 photographic color print on paper by Louis Ducos du Hauron. The irregular edges of the superimposed ...
1908: Binney & Smith partnered with Littlefield Maps to make a special color assortment of their Rubens-Crayola No. 12 box with special Biblical colors pasted on the back to accommodate church work on their Old Testament maps. 1909: Binney & Smith launched their Durel line of pressed crayons. 1910:
1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power, and McCarthyism (1950–1954) begins. 1950 – McCarran Internal Security Act. 1950 – Korean War begins. 1950 – The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz, is first published. 1950 – NBC airs Broadway Open House a late-night comedy, variety, talk show through 1951. Hosted by Morey Amsterdam ...