Saw this and thought of our resident film buffs Ali and John VanDuzer right away. Very cool.
Predates me by about 74 years and my baby photos were still black and white!
“There is not much of a plot – goldfish in bowl – but the scene and others from the same rolls of film were revealed on Wednesday as the earliest colour moving images ever made in a discovery that does nothing less than “rewrite film history”.
“The National Media Museum in Bradford said it had found what it contends are truly historic films from 1901/02, pre-dating what had been thought to be the first successful colour process – Kinemacolor – by eight years.
” “We believe this will literally rewrite film history,” said the museum’s head of collections, Paul Goodman. “I don’t think it is an overstatement. These are the world’s first colour moving images.”