Watch Cinema's First Colors

Cinema's First Colors, produced by film historians Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg, illustrates the birth of color cinema. Told from a European perspective, the documentary includes moving footage of Emile Reynaud's pre-cinema animation, "Pantomimes Lumineuse;" Gaumont's Chronochrome three-color systems; and additional unique examples of the Kodacolor lenticular color system, Kinemacolor.

Cinema's First Colors is a 2023 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 5 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.6.