World's first colour moving pictures discovered The world's
first colour moving pictures dating from 1902 have been found by
the National Media Museum in Bradford after lying forgotten in
an old tin for 110 years. The discovery is a breakthrough in
cinema history. Michael Harvey, from the National Media Museum,
and Bryony Dixon, from the British Film Institute, talk about
the importance of the discovery. The previous earliest colour
film, using the Kinemacolour process, was thought to date from
1909 and was actually an inferior method. The newly-discovered
films were made by pioneer Edward Raymond Turner from London who
patented his colour process on 22 March 1899. The story of
Edwardian colour cinema then moved to Brighton. Turner shot the
test films in 1902 but his pioneering work ended abruptly when
he died suddenly of a heart attack. Now the film has been
restored by the National Media Museum and is being shown to
audiences for the first time. The Race for Colour is broadcast
on Monday, 17 September 2012