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Notes on this view:

The Lumiere brothers patented the Autochrome process in 1903 and it was made commercially available in 1907. It is composed of a transparent color screen made up of dyed potato starch grains and a panchromatic silver gelatin emulsion on a glass support. The image is taken in the camera so that the light passes through the color screen before striking the emulsion. While the Autochrome was not the first screen plate process to be commercially marketed, it was the most successful--by 1916, the Lumieres were producing six thousand plates per day.

All screen plate processes are based on a theory published in 1869 by Louis Ducos du Hauron. The theory used additive color principles, in which Ducos du Hauron proposed that a full color image could be produced by placing a screen made up of additive colored stripes in front of a light sensitive emulsion. The screen would allow only the light corresponding to the colors of the scene to transmit to the emulsion while absorbing the rest.