THE NATURE OF COLOR 1946 EDUCATIONAL FILM with DR. IRA M. FREEMAN in KODACHROME PH61744

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1946 color film “The Nature of Color” by Coronet explores the basics of the physics of color. Coronet produced and distributed many documentary shorts, mostly on 19mm, which were widely shown in American public schools from the 1940s to the 1980s. The educational collaborator for “The Nature of Color” was Dr. Ira M. Freeman, who also wrote multiple physics textbooks. The film begins with vintage footage of a rainbow (0:29-0:35). Various color temperatures of sunlight are shown behind clouds, and raindrops are analyzed up-close on a window (0:36-0:51). The camera zooms up on a color print of Isaac Newton experimenting with a glass prism to understand color (0:52-1:08). The camera pans over a 1940s replica glass prism experiment used for Newton’s 1672 paper on the nature of additive colors, which also led him to invent the original color wheel (1:09-1:36). A v