Colour comes to Frome

A presentation of some of the earliest colour films from 1896 – 1912, screened on 35mm hand cranked projectors which are over 100 years old.
Live organ accompaniment from Elliot Galvin.

Christopher Bird will present some of the earliest colour films, from 1896-1912, on a 1919 hand-cranked projector. Tinting, toning, hand colouring (painted films) and Pathé stencil colour will all be on display in the work of Georges Méliès and other pioneering early filmmakers such as Segundo de Chomon and Walter Booth.

Frome resident Elliot Galvin will provide live accompaniment on the V.G Volwes organ installed at the former United Reformed Church which is now the home of the Rye Bakery.

The show will finish with an incredibly rare opportunity to see the first successful natural colour system, Kinemacolor, in action.