Video: World's first ever colour film unveiled The world's earliest colour film, shot in 1902 by a little-known Edwardian photographer, has been unveiled by a British museum. Edward Turner patented his method of capturing moving colour images more than a decade before the invention of Technicolor. He filmed London street scenes, a pet macaw and his three children playing with a goldfish in the family's back garden. But he died in 1903 and his process - recording successive frames through red, green and blue filters then projecting and superimposing them on top of one another - was deemed unworkable because the images came out blurred. His work was never seen in public and quickly forgotten. The commercially successful Kinemacolor system was patented in 1906 and exhibited three years later. Technicolor followed in 1916.