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National Media Museum Discovers First UK Colour Film


The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, has unveiled a startling new discovery of early colour footage that had been lost in its archive for 75 years. Early film pioneer Edward Raymond Turner created a colour film process patented in 1899, just a few years after British audiences first saw black and white moving film. Turner, supported by his financial partner Frederick Lee, experimented with his process but couldn't get the projector to work. Tragically he died at 30 in 1903 of a heart attack and his process was not deemed to be practical and abandoned.

Turner shot a few experimental films between 1901 and 1903. These were part of a donated collection, which eventually made its way to the National Media Museum, but Turner's pioneering work had been forgotten and his films lay hidden until this year when the NMM restored them, and using a computer simulation, are able to show them as they were intended by their originator. This discovery makes Turner the first colour film-maker in the world and rewrites cinema history.

The footage is in vibrant colour and shows Turner's daughters playing in the back garden, a pet macaw, and some exterior scenes of Knightsbridge in London and Brighton beach and pier.

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Website: Lee and Turner Display at the National Media Museum
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