Small fragment of a lost film in Kinemacolor, "How to Live 100 Years" (1913), starring Lillian Russell. This appears to be the only surviving footage of Russell in colour.
Amazing! I have her record which I believe is also on You-Tube. I have a short film where you get a glimpse of her entering and leaving a room - fabulous to watch. I did not know there was anything else on film. Wasn't she just lovely - so much grace and class! And that song! To actually hear the voice and see a film of someone who was born in 1861 is sheer magic.
This fragment is from the documentary "Glorious Technicolor". However, its first half was presented in slow motion as the original Kinemacolor images in black and white, so I had to colorize the alternate frames in red and blue-green and to make a single frame out of each pair.
It's hard for some- born in the past few decades - to understand how fa, how fast technology has progressed. Ms. Russell was a HUGE star in the 19th century, and, here is (color) footage. It boggles my mind to think about that. The flip side is with today's ever-faster, eve-changing technology, the ability to look 'back' is getting harder, as even 'older' digital technology is NOT compatible with 'current' mediums.
What makes this even more remarkable is that the song playing is also her voice, recorded around the same time as the film. So we can both see, in color, and hear a major celebrity born before the Civil War, who would have been 153 years old if alive today.
This is Great! Thank you for this wunderfull quality Kinemacolor film. i have searched around for silent movie stars and Lillian Russell was one of them, I knew she played in this color film.sad enough i searched allot to find this footage and didn't fin it, how did you!? This is Great! Thanks! Regards
The Kinemacolor process was not true colour film but a method of filming and projecting b/w film through a coloured filter that tinted the shades of b/w --but it was more authentic in appearance than earlier hand-coloured films.
@deepseadirt two rotating colour filters are used in taking the negatives and two in projecting the positives. The film stock is B&W, just like 3 strip Technicolor, Atqui digitally simulated the projection color filters. He should not have said "colorized" but was simply tinting alternate frames in red and cyan.
@uszoninyc i don't know if it's analogous, but it seems to be the unceasing battle between short-term profit and long term archiving. I've heard stories of how some studio exec decided to 'record over' taped footage of Groucho Marx to "save money" because it wasn't deemed worth keeping. On the other hand, Jackie Gleason had the foresight to record his Honeymooner shows on kinescope
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Amazing! I have her record which I believe is also on You-Tube. I have a short film where you get a glimpse of her entering and leaving a room - fabulous to watch. I did not know there was anything else on film. Wasn't she just lovely - so much grace and class! And that song! To actually hear the voice and see a film of someone who was born in 1861 is sheer magic.
Beautiful. Her dress and jewelry are amazing. A real treat to see in colour
What a graceful woman. The little eye flutter at the end is priceless.
This fragment is from the documentary "Glorious Technicolor". However, its first half was presented in slow motion as the original Kinemacolor images in black and white, so I had to colorize the alternate frames in red and blue-green and to make a single frame out of each pair.
Great clip! Lillian was a wonderful singer and to know this footage of her in color has survived is fantastic!
She was supposed to be past her goddess prime by 1913. Yet she shines in this clip - thank goodness we can see that.
Lillian had such poise and grace! It was wonderful seeing her in motion- and in color no less.Thank you so much for putting this video on RUclips!
Awesome Thank You- Jewelry courtesy of probably Diamond Jim Brady!!!
It's hard for some- born in the past few decades - to understand how fa, how fast technology has progressed. Ms. Russell was a HUGE star in the 19th century, and, here is (color) footage. It boggles my mind to think about that. The flip side is with today's ever-faster, eve-changing technology, the ability to look 'back' is getting harder, as even 'older' digital technology is NOT compatible with 'current' mediums.
What makes this even more remarkable is that the song playing is also her voice, recorded around the same time as the film.
So we can both see, in color, and hear a major celebrity born before the Civil War, who would have been 153 years old if alive today.
Born before the cival war?? Maybe after, and would have been a baby at the time.
Every frame in this film is a painting.
This is amazing. I'm so shocked to see this kind of stuff. It's just so cool to me.
This is Great! Thank you for this wunderfull quality Kinemacolor film. i have searched around for silent movie stars and Lillian Russell was one of them,
I knew she played in this color film.sad enough i searched allot to find this footage and didn't fin it, how did you!?
This is Great! Thanks!
Regards
This is wonderful considering the history.
The Kinemacolor process was not true colour film but a method of filming and projecting b/w film through a coloured filter that tinted the shades of b/w --but it was more authentic in appearance than earlier hand-coloured films.
Same as Technicolor!
What a very beautiful woman!
@deepseadirt two rotating colour filters are used in taking the negatives and two in projecting the positives. The film stock is B&W, just like 3 strip Technicolor, Atqui digitally simulated the projection color filters. He should not have said "colorized" but was simply tinting alternate frames in red and cyan.
Fantastic!
This looks really good for Kinemacolor
I don't know why that movie is lost. I wish I could see all of it.
In the Glorious Technicolor documentary, this clip was shown slow then sped up flashy and then normal. Here this clip plays at normal speed.
Wow. Thanks.
She's pretty
@marmite400: It's like she's flirting with the camera :)
@uszoninyc i don't know if it's analogous, but it seems to be the unceasing battle between short-term profit and long term archiving. I've heard stories of how some studio exec decided to 'record over' taped footage of Groucho Marx to "save money" because it wasn't deemed worth keeping. On the other hand, Jackie Gleason had the foresight to record his Honeymooner shows on kinescope
@atqui Isn't "Glorious Technicolor" wonderful?
Thanks for posting. :)
Yhis was the standard for a beautiful woman during America's Wild West era.
Is it wrong to love a Kinemacolor image? 'Cuz I love this'un!
@uszoninyc that is regrettable. it ought to be the other way around. technology should yield ever greater means of preserving the past.
@bobbobato some types of color film were much more expensive
They liked em big back then...
she was fat back then but nice you posted this video i had never see her since i am a fan of silent movies special the one with mary pickford
I don't get it - in 1913 they had perfect quality film, but in 1929 hollywood "color" musicals were essentially cyan?
Late 20's they were experimenting with 2 strip technicolor. That's why
There's no "Russ"!
Nice make up!
What a graceful woman. The little eye flutter at the end is priceless.