<P> Current color films do this with three layers of differently color - sensitive photographic emulsion coated on one strip of film base . Early processes used color filters to photograph the color components as completely separate images (e.g., three - strip Technicolor) or adjacent microscopic image fragments (e.g., Dufaycolor) in a one - layer black - and - white emulsion . </P> <P> Each photographed color component, initially just a colorless record of the luminous intensities in the part of the spectrum that it captured, is processed to produce a transparent dye image in the color complementary to the color of the light that it recorded . The superimposed dye images combine to synthesize the original colors by the subtractive color method . In some early color processes (e.g., Kinemacolor), the component images remained in black - and - white form and were projected through color filters to synthesize the original colors by the additive color method . </P> <P> The earliest motion picture stocks were orthochromatic, and recorded blue and green light, but not red . Recording all three spectral regions required making film stock panchromatic to some degree . Since orthochromatic film stock hindered color photography in its beginnings, the first films with color in them used aniline dyes to create artificial color . Hand - colored films appeared in 1895 with Thomas Edison's hand - painted Annabelle's Dance for his Kinetoscope viewers . </P> <P> Many early filmmakers from the first ten years of film also used this method to some degree . George Méliès offered hand - painted prints of his own films at an additional cost over the black - and - white versions, including the visual - effects pioneering A Trip to the Moon (1902). The film had various parts of the film painted frame - by - frame by twenty - one women in Montreuil in a production - line method . </P>

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