Jewish Invention Myths: Colour Photography and Kodachrome Colour Film

Sometimes when researching jewish invention myths, I notice ridiculously jumbled claims of jewish achievement which are also wrong but also don’t make much sense. One such is the that claim that jews invented colour photography.

‘MNews’ claims that:

‘Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes – Color photography

The Kodachrome color film was co-developed by professional musicians having the same name: Leopold Mannes (piano) and Leopold Godowsky (violin). Photochemistry was a hobby for them, but it brought them more fame than music.’ (1)

Slava Bazarsky echoes this and claims that Leopold Godowsky invented ‘the colour photograph’. (2)

We should immediately note in the ‘MNews’ claim they reference Kodachrome colour film in the text but claim colour photography in the title, while Bazarsky also cites colour photography as the invention of Leopold Godowsky.

This is however a rather tangled mess of bad research and recycled claims if I am any judge because Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes did indeed create an improved version of Kodachrome colour film in 1930, but the key is in the word ‘improved’: they didn’t invent it. (3) John Capstaff – a scientist at Kodak – invented Kodachrome colour film in 1913 (4) and it was first publicly demonstrated in 1922. (5)

However, Kodachrome colour film isn’t ‘colour photography’ at all: related to it to be use but it isn’t the same thing. The jew they should be citing if they are trying to claim colour photography is Gabriel Lipmman who won a Nobel Prize for Physics for his work around colour photography in 1908.

The problem however is that Lipmann didn’t invent colour photography Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell outlined the theory behind it in an article in 1855, (6) while Thomas Sutton then worked with Maxwell to test his theory and produced the first colour photography in 1861. (7)

It is also worth noting that Frenchman Louis Ducos du Hauron patented the first colour camera in 1868 (8) although this has mistakenly often been attributed to Irishman John Joly in 1896. (9)

So, what ‘MNews’ and Bazarsky have confused and conflated is the development of Kodachrome colour film in 1913 by John Capstaff with the invention of colour photography by James Clerk Maxwell and Thomas Sutton then falsely awarded it to Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes in 1930 which is just bizarre but shows you how easily jewish invention myths are created.

References

(1) https://mnews.world/en/news/the-great-jews-and-their-inventions

(2) https://slavaguide.com/blog/jewish-inventors-and-jewish-inventions

(3) https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124567093975236801

(4) https://filmcolors.org/timeline-entry/1230/

(5) https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-12-226/cinematic-firsts-enshrined-in-2012-film-registry/2012-12-19/

(6) https://web.archive.org/web/20170104000418/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2011/04Apr/JamesClerkMaxwell.aspx

(7) https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/jul/09/first-colour-photograph

(8) See: Anon., 1895, Nature, Vol. 53, Np. 1361, pp. 91–93

(9) John Joly, 1896, ‘On a method of photography in natural colors’, Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 127–138