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The process is this: a short scene up to seventy 

 feet long is chosen. Prints are made. One is inserted 

 in the enlarging camera. A color sketch is made, de- 

 ciding on the colors for the entire scene. Then start- 

 ing with the first frame a stencil is cut for all the 

 yellows, then all of the blues, reds, greens and all 

 other colors. If five colors are to be put on, it means 

 five stencils for each frame of the print. After the 

 stencils are all cut and matched up perfectly, the 

 color is put on in another machine. An endless velvet 

 belt is the brush. The nap of the velvet, the hairs of 

 the brush, the stencil made into an endless belt, is 

 carried over sprocket wheels above the print to be 

 colored. The liquid color is applied to a revolving 

 brush that carries it to the velvet ribbon and applied 

 through the holes in the stencil to the print, one 

 color after another. If a good many prints are to be 

 colored they are all joined together in one long reel 

 so that number one picture always comes under 

 number one opening in the stencil belt, which has 

 to correspond in length to each print. 



The print is dried after each color is applied and 

 then the next color put on in the same way. Each 

 step must be perfect in amount of color used and its 

 tone when dry, or the color produced putting one 

 color on top of another would be wrong. The colors 

 must absolutely register. We found two people tak- 



