Kodacolor (still photography)

For other uses of "Kodacolor", see Kodacolor (disambiguation).
Kodacolor II – 35mm-film for colour prints

In still photography, Kodak's Kodacolor brand has been associated with various color negative films (i.e., films that produce negatives for making color prints on paper) since 1942. Kodak claims that Kodacolor was "the world's first true color negative film".[1] More accurately, it was the first color negative film intended for making paper prints: in 1939, Agfa had introduced a 35 mm Agfacolor negative film for use by the German motion picture industry, in which the negative was used only for making positive projection prints on 35 mm film.[2] There have been several varieties of Kodacolor negative film, including Kodacolor-X, Kodacolor VR and Kodacolor Gold.

The name "Kodacolor" was originally used for a very different lenticular color home movie system, introduced in 1928 and retired after Kodachrome film made it obsolete in 1935.

  1. ^ "History of Kodak: Milestones 1930–1959". Kodak. Archived from the original on September 1, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2006.
  2. ^ Bertrand Lavedrine's "Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation", page 212