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Blowup. The current issue of Aviation Week contains what it claims is a picture of the speedy Russian plane itself (see cut). The drawing was made from a blown-up motion picture film smuggled from behind the Iron Curtain. The original photographs, the magazine says, were taken with a telescopic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faster & Faster | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

The subject of such superheated ban-nerlines last week was a new colored movie process called Rouxcolor. Though hardly as colossal as the excitable French puffs made out, the first Rouxcolor films made moviemen sit up & take notice. To many they seemed sharper and more nearly faithful to natural color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolution in Color? | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

The secret of Rouxcolor is a lens which is divided into four parts, each with a filter for a different color (red, yellow, green, blue). The four-in-one lens "decomposes" light, making four different images on the film. (A gadget prevents distortion of the images in relation to each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolution in Color? | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

'No Sale. Rouxcolor, the inventors say, can be filmed simply by attaching their four-in-one photo lens (a matter of two minutes) to a black-&-white camera, and shooting with black-&-white film. Projection is just as easy. Laboratories can process the film as if it were black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolution in Color? | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Roux brothers seemed too good to be true. Moviemakers had seen too many processes come & go to get excited. But research cameramen have long worked to perfect a process in which the lens and not the film would be the principal color agent. Up to now, experiments with such lenses have not worked out commercially. Hollywood wanted to hear more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolution in Color? | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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