Resources and Archive

Row of books about colour, film and photography

Resources:

Film Atlas (open access) is an online guide to every motion picture film format, soundtrack, 3-D and color processes. Edited by James Layton, the Film Atlas was developed in collaboration with the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and the George Eastman Museum, with funding from the Louis B Mayer Foundation and George Eastman Museum Publishing Trust. The Film Atlas includes essays, film frames, fragments, a bibliography and technical information about black-and-white and colour film stocks, colouring techniques (tinting and toning), and more.

Timeline of Historical Colors in Photography and Film (open access) is an online resource for the study of colour technologies and aesthetics, which has been developed by Professor Barbara Flueckiger (University of Zurich).

ChromoBase (open access) is the database of the ERC project CHROMOTOPE, which explores the cultural impact of the new colours that appeared in the 1850s.

Bombay Film Colour: Industries, Histories, Archives Bombay Film Colour is an AHRC-funded Research Network (est. 2024) exploring the history of colour cinema in Bombay (Mumbai) between 1945 and 1982. The Bombay Film Colour project is led by Associate Professor Kirsty Dootson Sinclair (UCL) and Professor Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University).

Colourlab, NTNU The Colourlab is a leading research group in the field of colour imaging, with research areas in colour perception. cognition, cultural heritage, multimedia and more.

Technicolor Research Archive (online searchable database) The Eastman Museum’s collection consists of more than 40,000 documents – notes, journals, correspondence, film tests, technical drawings – from 1914 to 1955 are available to search.

Audiovisual Essay: ‘”Isn’t that going to be awfully dull and drab? George Hoyningen-Huene’s use of neutrals’ by Lucy Fife Donaldson (University of St Andrews). The audiovisual essay explores George Hoyningen-Huene’s foregrounding of neutral shades in his work for Technicolor films between 1953-1963.

The Eastmancolor Revolution and British Cinema, 1955 – 1985 was an Arts and Humanities Research Council- funded project based at the Universities of Bristol and East Anglia. The project investigated the impact of Eastmancolor, a film stock introduced by Kodak in the 1950s, on British cinema. Read the Eastmancolor Revolution blog

Colour Group (GB) organise seminars, conferences and a blog about a variety of approaches to colour including colour materials, pigments, colour science, theory, perception and the expression of colour in the arts.

Colour Collective UK are based in the North East and organise a blog and events (in-person and online) about a range of topics on colour, culture and the visual arts.