The worlds of advertising and clothing are rich in colour, and this is the subject of the first part of the programme. The black-and- white positive print is the body of the film, the superimposed colour layer its clothing. In stencil-coloured films the faces usually appear black and white, the clothes coloured. Or is the film itself a fabric? We know that its major component is cotton cellulose: and the same aniline dyes were used to colour films and textiles, and in some cases even the same processes, such as the way tinting was done by dipping in a colour bath.
Travelogues, one of the earliest production series, were at first usually black and white, until around 1909 when, thanks to mechanisation and the perfecting of Pathécolor, colouring became the preferred option for this genre. From then on, colour had the connotations of picturesqueness and exoticism, both becoming all but unavoidable in the travelogue. Les Pyrénées features lush stencil colouring typical of the genre.
The two-strip process of the film advertising household appliances is not identified in any more detail, while the 1937 sound lm is in two-strip Ufacolor. This film features interesting names in its cast and credits, the cameraman Duverger is known for Un chien andalou and L‘Age d‘or, Iguerbouchen was a famous algerian composer and, according to the german Censorship, the lm is based on travel writings by Henri Chomette who died, forgotten, 1941 in Morocco.