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A cinematic demonstration of an antiquated form of “additive” film colour, in which alternate black-and-white frames are filtered red and blue-green, or red, blue, and green. Kinemacolor was patented in 1906, and its derivations were in use until the ’30s when “subtractive” colour systems were perfected. Colour television, which consists of luminous red, blue and green spots, is also “additive.”