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  Lumiere Autochrome Vintage Film Boxes
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Our Price: $101.95
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Make/Author/Artist: Lumiere

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Product Code: PALUMA

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Rare plate film boxes for the ground breaking Lumiere Autochrome process, which was the first viable color film, patented in 1903.

The plates were sold successfully until 1931, when the company introduced a flexible product, called Filmcolor. In 1935 and 1936, there was added competition from new chromogenic films, Agfacolor and Kodachrome.

Still the Lumiere company managed to stay in business until 1955. The Autochrome plates were coated with potato starch, aniline dyes, varnish, carbon black, more varnish, panchromatic emulsion. The Autochrome plate was exposed in a plate camera, in this case one taking a plate size of 3 1/4 X 4 inches.

Since the emulsion had extended sensitivity to blue light, a yellow filter was required and the plate was exposed backwards in the film holder since the colored starch layer had to be exposed first. The exposure was about 1 second in bright sunlight. The developing process required more than one stage of development, and the silver salts were reduced to metallic silver with permanganate. Finally the plate was fixed and intensified with pyrogallic acid and silver nitrate.

The plate was then washed and dried. Because of the density of the carbon, the plates require bright back lighting to be viewed. These Autochrome boxes are quite early, and would have been made before 1911. They would be ideal for movie and stage set design, museum display, or to complete a collection of early photographica.

The boxes contain the inner black light shield boxes, and original cardoard packing material. This lot consists of two boxes, both for 3 1/4 x 4 inch format.

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