[ecrea] "Timeline of Historical Film Colors" now online

I am very excited to announce that my database of historical film colors 
is now online. It consists of approximately 240 entries, illustrated 
with approximately 400 images from archives and private collections:

http://www.zauberklang.ch/colorsys.php


<http://www.zauberklang.ch/colorsys.php>

In its current form the database is a nucleus for a much more advanced 
project which will be elaborated in the forthcoming months. It is my 
plan to develop a collaborative platform which allows experts and 
researchers to collaborate on a global scale.


Many renowned scholars and institutions have contributed already:

http://www.zauberklang.ch/acknowledgements.html

To date, I have been solely responsible not only for gathering and 
analyzing all of the data, which derives from my studies of several 
hundred original papers and secondary sources at Harvard University in 
the fall term of 2011, but also for programming most of the database and 
organizing all the images and copyright clearances. Only to a very 
limited extent have I received financial support from the Swiss National 
Science Foundation in the framework of my research project "Film History 
Re-mastered" (see abstract and further information on the university's 
research database <http://www.research-projects.uzh.ch/p15584.htm>). 
Thus I had to finance a major part from my private means.

Therefore I have set up a crowd-funding campaign to invite you to 
support the further development of the project, either by sharing it or 
by contributing financially. It is my goal to collect at least $10,000 
in the upcoming 90 days. There are several levels, starting at $25 for 
buying the rights for one image and extending to $5,000 for possible 
co-chairs of this project:
http://www.indiegogo.com/colorprocesses

I am very grateful for any kind of support! And I would be more than 
happy to give you proper credit for your conceptual or financial 
contribution.

Yours sincerely,

Barbara Flueckiger



Prof. Dr. Barbara Flueckiger

Institute of Cinema Studies
University of Zurich
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