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Lumière Photogr.|l(j)uːmiːɛə(r)| The name of the brothers Auguste (1862–1954) and Louis (1864–1948) Lumière, French photographers, used attrib. to denote a process of colour photography invented by them involving a colour screen consisting of a glass plate coated with a mixture of starch grains dyed in the primary colours which was placed in front of the panchromatic emulsion on exposure and for viewing; also applied to plates used in this process. Cf. autochrome a. and n.
1907Westm. Gaz. 24 Aug. 14/2 In some respects the new Lumière process is old. Ibid. 20 Sept. 4/3 Even in the case of the Lumière plate a keen eye can detect the red and blue grains upon the lighter portions. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 238/2 Twelve volumes, illustrated by 1260 plates of his [sc. Burbank's] most beautiful creations, reproduced in colour from original lumière plates. 1955G. R. Sharp tr. Lorelle's Colour Bk. Photogr. 199 In the Lumière process a transparent film base carries a mosaic pattern of microscopic coloured filters which is coated with a fine grain panchromatic emulsion. 1966LaCour & Lathrop Photo Technol. xv. 194/2 To produce the Lumiere Autochrome plate, starch grains were pulverized and one third dyed blue, one third dyed green and the remaining grains dyed red. The colored grains were remixed and spread in a very thin layer on a glass plate. |