September 13, 2012 11:22 am In 1899, British inventory Edward
Turner developed a technology to film and display color movies.
Turner’s invention, financially supported by Frederick Lee, was
originally considered a flop by many in the film community, says
The Hollywood Reporter, but the work of archivists and film
experts at the National Media Museum in Bradford, England, have
breathed life back into the old rolls of film that were captured
by in the early days of the 20th century. According to the
museum, Turner’s technique to produce his color movies was quite
complicated. [I]t involved photographing successive frames of
black-and-white film through blue, green and red filters. Using
a special projector (which you can see in the gallery) these
were combined on a screen to produce full-colour images. Using a
camera and projector made by Brighton-based engineer Alfred
Darling, Turner developed the process sufficiently to take
various test films of colourful subjects such as a macaw, a
goldfish in a bowl agains