Unique in the history of British Cinema, "Sons of the Sea" was the only full feature film to be filmed in Dufay Color. This type of colour film had been invented by the Frenchman Louis Dufay in 1908, and by the mid 1930s 9.5mm and 16mm film for home movies was available. Several documentaries were filmed in Dufay color, as well as some of the musical numbers in the revue film "Radio Parade of 1935", but "Sons of the Sea" directed by Maurice Elvey was the only full feature to be filmed in the process. Happily the film still survives in good condition and it has been shown occasionally on UK tv, the last time being in 2005. The film has unique footage of the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth just before the second world war, as well as other picturesque scenery of the Devon countryside. The quality of the Dufay colour is pretty good, comparing quite well with early examples of technicolor. The film itself is rather dull from the dramatic point of view, but it remains a unique curio in the history of British Cinema and a dvd release would be most welcome. Here is the opening of the film featuring good views of the naval college, and the revelation that the commanding officer of the college has just been found murdered........... Leslie Banks, Cecil Parker & Kay Walsh were the leading players in the film, all of whom can be seen in this opening clip.

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This film is showing as part of 'Britain at Bay: Peace & War 1937-1940', a touring programme of films from the BFI National Archive. Visit www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk for more information. This early Dufaycolor documentary from Humphrey Jennings focuses on an August harvest in Sawston, Cambridgeshire. The old makes way for the new as the trusty old scythe bows down to the horse-drawn binder and plough. Hard work, flat caps and pipes abound as we see the workers downing midday ale for sustenance and taking a break at 5 to sit in the fields for a cup of tea brought to them by their wives. The 'playground of the town' and 'workshop of the country', alias the great British countryside, has never looked better. For more information about Dufaycolor and 'English Harvest' see www.bftv.ac.ukYou can watch over 1200 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank, London and at the new QUAD centre for art and film in Derby - www.bfi.org.uk www.derbyquad.co.uk

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folksonomy.co "Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1939), a four-minute, hand-painted Dufaycolor film 'with a colour accompaniment by Len Lye', matches visual motifs to musical instruments: diagonals introduce piano phrases, circles express drum beats, wavy horizontals represent guitars licks, vertical lines map base parts, etc. Primary red, blue and deep green colour fields are rendered frameless by upwardly cascading kite shapes, luminous tapered stripes, and batik-like patterns." (Brett Kashmere www.sensesofcinema.com Distributors: Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand www.nzonscreen.com

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A Colour Box (1935) 4 min, 35mm Dufaycolour, sound Music: La Belle Créole by Don Baretto and his Cuban Orchestra Synchronisation: Jack Ellitt Producer: John Grierson Sponsor: GPO Film Unit First screening: 6 September 1935 The first of Lye's 'direct films' to receive a public screening. Promoted by Sidney Bernstein's Granada chain of cinemas, it eventually came to be seen "by a larger public than any experimental film before it, and most since" (as the film historian David Curtis has pointed out). Its soundtrack is a beguine - a dance popular in France during the 1930s. A Colour Box won a Medal of Honour at the 1935 International Cinema Festival in Brussels. Having no suitable category in which to award the film, the jury simply invented a new one. A Colour Box (1935) 4 min, Dufaycolour 35mm, som Música: La Belle Créole por Don Baretto e sua Orquestra Cubana Sincronização: Jack Ellitt Produtor: John Grierson Patrocinador: GPO Film Unit Primeira exibição: 06 de setembro de 1935 O primeiro filme de Len Lye a receber premio em uma seleção pública. Promovido pela Sidney Bernstein's Granada, este filme eventualmente passou a ser visto "por um público maior do que qualquer filme experimental" (como o historiador de cinema David Curtis). Sua trilha sonora é um beguine - uma dança popular na França durante a década de 1930. A Colour Box ganhou uma medalha de Honra no Festival Internacional de Cinema 1935, em Bruxelas.

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Norman Hartnell's 1938 Spring Collection is modelled here by a group of society ladies (one of whom looks alarmingly like Nadia from 2004's Big Brother) who pose awkwardly in a series of extraordinary gowns. Shot in glorious Dufaycolor (an early and beautifully distinctive colour film process), this is not only an important record of 1930s couture, but also a handy reminder that not so long ago you could be a clothes horse without being a teenage size-zero. This was an atypical subject for director Humphrey Jennings - soon to become one of the most enduring chroniclers of World War Two's home front. Here, he (and Hartnell) appear to have been influenced by Madame Yevonde, doyenne of British society photographers, whose portraits of aristocrats posing as ancient Greek goddesses had recently been exhibited. (Robin Baker) For more information about Humphrey Jennings see www.screenonline.org.uk You can watch the whole of 'Making Fashion' and almost 1000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge at the new BFI Mediatheque - www.bfi.org.uk

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A commercial from 1965 for the Polaroid Colorpack camera for half the price of the original model. Please subscribe for more great videos! Please like, comment and favorite! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Polaroid Corporation is an international consumer electronics and eyewear company, originally founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land. It is most famous for its instant film cameras, which reached the market in 1948, and continued to be the company's flagship product line until the February 2008 decision to cease all production in favor of digital photography products. The company's original dominant market was in polarized sunglasses, an outgrowth of Land's self-guided research in polarization after leaving Harvard University after his freshman year—he later returned to Harvard to continue his research. After Polaroid defeated Kodak in a patent battle, Kodak left the instant camera business on January 9, 1986. Polaroid developed an instant movie system, Polavision, based on the Dufaycolor process. The product arrived on the market when videotape based systems were rapidly gaining popularity. As a result, Polavision was unsuccessful and most of the manufactured product was sold off as a job lot at immense cost to the company. Its underlying technology was later improved for use in the Polachrome instant slide film system. The company also was one of the early manufacturers of digital cameras, with the PDC-2000 in 1996 <b>...</b>

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All video editing, type setting and music composing work by me. Original art is from "A Colour Box" by Len Lye circa 1935 in Dufaycolor. This video is part of the Doki! Doki! Dance! collection. Feel free to distribute, broadcast and edit this movie as long as credit is given.

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1941 COLOUR FILM OF WARTIME PICNIC & BRINGING IN HARVEST AT MILTON LILBURN IN JULY 1941. DIGGING FOR VICTORY IN ROMFORD,ENGLAND. AS IT IS DUFAYCOLOUR ITS DARK, BEST SEEN IN DARKENED ROOM

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The Muslim scientist Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040 AD), known as Alhacen or Alhazen in the West, developed a broad theory of vision based on geometry and anatomy in his 1021 Book of Optics. Al-Haytham postulated that every point on an illuminated surface radiates light rays in all directions, but that only one ray from each point can be seen: the ray that strikes the eye perpendicularly. The other rays strike at different angles and are not seen. He described the pinhole camera and invented the camera obscura, which produces an inverted image, using it as an example to support his argument. This contradicted Ptolemys theory of vision that objects are seen by rays of light emanating from the eyes. Alhacen held light rays to be streams of minute energy particles that traveled at a finite speed. He improved Ptolemys theory of the refraction of light, and went on to discover the laws of refraction. He also carried out the first experiments on the dispersion of light into its constituent colors. His major work Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics) was translated into Latin in the Middle Ages, as well his book dealing with the colors of sunset. He dealt at length with the theory of various physical phenomena like shadows, eclipses, the rainbow. He also attempted to explain binocular vision, and gave an explanation of the apparent increase in size of the sun and the moon when near the horizon, known as the moon illusion. Because of his extensive experimental research on optics, Ibn al <b>...</b>

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To buy the DVD go to www.motorfilms.com A compilation of classic original travelogues from the Austin and Morris Archives re-mastered for DVD. The 1930s was an era when motoring was still fun. Small cars such as the Austin Seven and the Morris Minor carried a modest price tag and brought motoring within the reach of the middle classes for the first time. They celebrated the freedom this relatively new form of transport gave them by exploring the length and breadth of the British Isles. These charming travelogues, produced by Morris Motors and the Austin Motor Company, were intended to demonstrate the virtues of their products. Along the way they captured a snapshot of Thirties Britain - its scenery, its people, and its way of life. So jump into the passenger seat and take a trip back in time, through the picturesque villages of England, up into the magnificent mountains of Scotland, and past the impressive monuments of Wales. The Villages of England (18.5 minutes) Morris Motors 1934 (B&W) Lands End to John O'Groats (18.5 minutes) Morris Motors 1935 (B&W) The Highlands of Scotland (17.5 minutes) Morris Motors 1936 (B&W) All That is England (17.5 minutes) Austin Motor Company 1936 (B&W) Facts and Fancies (21.5 minutes) Morris Motors 1937 (Colour) (An extremely rare example of a 1930s colour process called Dufaycolour). Total running time 90 minutes approximately

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The Muslim scientist Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040 AD), known as Alhacen or Alhazen in the West, developed a broad theory of vision based on geometry and anatomy in his 1021 Book of Optics. Al-Haytham postulated that every point on an illuminated surface radiates light rays in all directions, but that only one ray from each point can be seen: the ray that strikes the eye perpendicularly. The other rays strike at different angles and are not seen. He described the pinhole camera and invented the camera obscura, which produces an inverted image, using it as an example to support his argument. This contradicted Ptolemys theory of vision that objects are seen by rays of light emanating from the eyes. Alhacen held light rays to be streams of minute energy particles that traveled at a finite speed. He improved Ptolemys theory of the refraction of light, and went on to discover the laws of refraction. He also carried out the first experiments on the dispersion of light into its constituent colors. His major work Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics) was translated into Latin in the Middle Ages, as well his book dealing with the colors of sunset. He dealt at length with the theory of various physical phenomena like shadows, eclipses, the rainbow. He also attempted to explain binocular vision, and gave an explanation of the apparent increase in size of the sun and the moon when near the horizon, known as the moon illusion. Because of his extensive experimental research on optics, Ibn al <b>...</b>

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