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See also the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television's information sheet on Urban and Kinemacolor (in PDF format), info on Kinemacolor from Widescreen Museum website, and a 1913 article from 'Motion Picture World' reprinted on David Pierce's Silent Film Bookshelf website.

Luke McKernan of the British Universities' Film and Video Council is currently working on a PhD thesis about Charles Urban: some of his research related to Kinemacolor can be found here.

I've never seen any restored Kinemacolor, though a film of the 1911 Delhi Durbar does survive in the National Film and Television Archive in London (there are frame enlargements in Coe's book). The WWI propaganda feature film 'Britain Prepared' (1915) was also made in Kinemacolor, though AFAIK, only black and white elements survive.

I would imagine that if one were attempting to make a new negative on tripack colour stock, the Desmetcolour method, which is used extensively by archives for making new prints of tinted and toned originals, could be adapted for the purpose without too much difficulty. I guess you would need to tweak the grading of the filters used to offset the fact that the original element was shot on orthochromatic stock and through a filter in the first place. Apart from that, I can't see that the process wouldn't work 'as is'.

BTW, while we've been having the thread about spelling, Urban did, being an American expat, spell 'Kinemacolor' the American way, i.e. without the 'u'.

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