Talk:Brewster Color

Not based on Friese-Greene

Friese-Greene, who has been nicknamed "the single most annoying person in the history of cinema" by processional scholars, was a notorious fraud in his day who claimed he'd invented everything from the moving image to photographic film, the cinematograph camera, and color film, see the recent BBC documentary The Race for Colour. The only hand he had in the spreading of color film was that he sued the original creators of Kinemacolor by claiming he had invented that as well. It was just that with Kinemacolor, he was successful by accident rather than by design, as the original patent the creators of Kinemacolor were using was a three-color process, not a two-color process. It was due to Friese-Greene's litigation that in c. 1913-14 a British court found out and declared the two-color process to be open domain because of it. And because Friese-Greene could now freely and legally use the process just like anybody else, he used that fact to claim even more vehemently that he had been the one to invent it. --80.187.101.102 (talk) 15:44, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

I just watched the BBC documentary. While it does have that quote about Friese-Greene being annoying, I didn't hear anything that contradicts the quote from Silent Cinema, which characterizes Brewster Color as "following the premises of one of William Friese-Greene's systems." I also don't see anything in the Friese-Greene article which justifies calling him a fraud. Nick Number (talk) 00:58, 8 September 2015 (UTC)