Color Film of London From 1902 Now Fully Restored

I wish someone like the creator of Curiosity Descent footage ( <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esj5juUzhpU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esj5juUzhpU</a> ) could get their hands on the three separate RGB channels and combine them manually. The frames did not seem to be overlaid properly and combining 1R + 2B + 3G as 1F, 2B + 3G + 4R as 2F etc. caused offsets in every frame.

Direct link: <a href="http://nationalmediamuseumblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/edward-raymond-turner-discovery-re-writes-history-of-early-film/" rel="nofollow">http://nationalmediamuseumblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/edwa...</a><p>Also previously submitted: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4513662" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4513662</a>

Amazingly, not that different from the first color TV prototyps and modern-ish DLP tvs in how they render the image.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_television#All-mechanical_color" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_television#All-mechanical...</a><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Color-Wheel-Samsung-DLP-H-Series/dp/B001CTNRX0" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Color-Wheel-Samsung-DLP-H-Series/dp/B0...</a>

Funny: while the Macaw and the director's children were in brilliant color, the panorama of London was black-and-white. Why? Because London was black-and-white. Black cars, black clothes, grey stone buildings. Not the best subject for a color film, but interesting historically.<p>Also: not only first color film, but first color-film director, actors.

Am I misunderstanding something or is the animation in the video clip at around 3:00 wrong? There it looks as if a single frame is exposed to all three colors sequentially, while really the color disk should be rotating in a way that ensures that a frame always represents the same color while moving?

After looking at the film, I suspect that some more restoration work could get rid of the color smearing.