1927 Color Film of Crater Lake

[Hiker_Dude]

It's silent, but the hikers (one with a tie) come in at 2:18. There is an unleashed dog on the trail as well. Oh my, how primitive. Enjoy.

http://youtu.be/Lu1jKA_MwX8

This is from a trove of British newsreels recently posted to utube.

[forester]

So you wonder if they were disappointed or thrilled with how the video turned out? It is missing that magical blue, but being from that time period, it might not have mattered. Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[miah66]

From reading the details about the film, I looked up Pathecolor. This wikipedia article explains the coloring process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%C3%A9chrome

"The stencil process was not a color photography process and did not use color film. Like computer-based film colorization processes, it was a way of arbitrarily adding selected colors to films originally photographed and printed in black-and-white.

Each frame of an extra print of the black-and-white film to be colored was rear-projected onto a sheet of frosted glass, as in rotoscoping. An operator used a blunt stylus to trace the outlines of areas of the projected image that were to be tinted one particular color. The stylus was connected to a reducing pantograph that caused a sharp blade to cut corresponding outlines through the actual film frame, creating the stencil for that color in that frame. This had to be done for each individual frame, and as many different stencil films had to be made as there were different colors to be added. Each of the final projection prints was matched up with one of the stencil films and run through a machine that applied the corresponding dye through the stencil. This operation was repeated using each of the different stencils and dyes in turn."