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242 - Pathé Cinema.

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€240

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€240 - 360

Sale fees

27%

Pathé Cinema. The Pathé Virgin Film: A Manual on Development and Printing. Paris, 1926. Large 8°. With 107 partly color or hand-colored film stills and several text illustrations. XII, 155 pp. Contemporary half-leather binding (spine slightly rubbed). A comprehensive technical manual on the development of Pathé films for the film industry, featuring numerous formulas (corresponding to German ones: glycine development, metol-hydroquinone development, etc.) and original stills from film prints. Numerous examples document the various methods for producing color films (virage of entire scenes in the laboratory, virage of individual frames by hand, Pathé-Color, etc.), making the book an important document for the history of color imagery in the pre-Technicolor era. - From the collection of Heinz Peter Barandun.

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Auction details

Auction 146 - Day 1
Wednesday, December 9
10:00 AM
Steubenstrasse, 36
75172 Pforzheim, Germany

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