At first a three colour technique was developed, but it was quite hard to apply to moving image so they simplified it into a two colour technique, basically red and green and this is where our local story starts in earnest, because George Albert Smith was a pioneer of Kinemacolour which became internationally renowned, as a fantastic world leader of colour cinematography but he fell out with somebody who had a similar design called William Friese-Greene, who was also a Brighton and Hove resident and they ended up bankrupting each other in a court battle so 