Tartans of Scottish Clans (1906)

Directed by

George Albert Smith

Genre

documentary film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2 min

Rating

4.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a short silent film that shows different Scottish tartan cloths with labels. It was made to test a new color film process that could show red and green colors.

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What happens

Tartans of Scottish Clans is a 1906 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith as a test for his newly patented Kinemacolor system, which features a sequence of appropriately labelled Scottish tartan cloths, with an abundance of reds and greens, the two colours used by the system. The film, which was one of Smith's first Kinemacolor experiments, was according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "a very simple idea which nonetheless demanded colour in order to convey the necessary information." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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