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Кинемаколорът в България
The Kinemacolor in Bulgaria

Author(s): Petar Kardjilov
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, History of Art
Published by: Институт за изследване на изкуствата, Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: The Kinemacolor was a cinematographic shooting process developed on the base of green and red colours by George Albert Smith (1864–1959). In March 1909, he and the American Charles Urban (1867–1942) established the Natural Color Kinematograph Company (also known as Kinemacolor) using the invention for commercial purposes. The first ever movie filmed using this method was The History of Napoleon (1910, drama). Charles Urban’s greatest achievement was the spectacular Kinemacolor record of the 1911 Delhi Durbar ceremony of King George V and Queen Mary’s coronation as Emperor and Empress of India. Delhi Durbar was screened around the word with a huge success. The company appeared in Bulgaria on 19 May 1912, in New America ex-variety-theatre. In the Balkan War (1912) Kinemacolor sent a crew led by the famous war artist and correspondent Frederic Villiers. That was how one of the earliest cinema frames in colour happened to be taken in Bulgaria as seen in the American The Moving Picture World j. (1907-1927).

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 532-548
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian