# Happy birthday, color moviemaking **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-color-moviemaking/462412 "2008-09-06T23:26:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-color-moviemaking/462412/1 "2008-09-06T23:26:10Z")
Happy 100th birthday to color moviemaking! From _Film Facts_ (2001) by Patrick Robertson: > [@](#): > > The first commercially produced film in natural colour was G. A. Smith’s _A Visit to the Seaside_ (GB 08), an eight-minute short featuring the White Coons pierrot troupe and the Band of the Cameron Highlanders which was trade shown in September 1908. Taken at Brighton [England], it showed children paddling and eating ice-cream, a pretty girl falling out of a boat, and men peeping at the Bathing Belles changing in their bathing machines. It was filmed in a two-color additive process Smith invented in 1906 that would be introduced commercially in 1909 as Kinemacolor. Kinemacolor projectors were eventually installed in some 300 cinemas in Britain; 54 dramatic films (all shorts) were produced in Kinemacolor in the UK, and 4 in the US. [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinemacolor) [Kinemacolor at the American WideScreen Museum](http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/oldcolor/kinemaco.htm)