US2688541A - Light-sensitive color photographic material - Google Patents

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US2688541A
US2688541A US256127A US25612751A US2688541A US 2688541 A US2688541 A US 2688541A US 256127 A US256127 A US 256127A US 25612751 A US25612751 A US 25612751A US 2688541 A US2688541 A US 2688541A
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  • This invention relates to colour photography and more particularly to a simplified multilayer material for use in colour photography.
  • a yellow filter layer is usually employed between the uppermost (blue sensitive) layer and the other sensitive layers, which in addition to being sensitised to other parts of the spectrum are also sensitive to blue light.
  • the yellow filter layer absorbs the blue light and prevents it striking these lower sensitive layers.
  • the coating of the yellow filter layer itself provides an undesirable complication of the process of manufacture of .the photographic film or paper and when colloidal silver is used in theyellow filter layer, as is usual in commercial processes, further complications are-- introduced by the necessity of coating separationlayers between. the filter layer and the light sensitivelayers to avoid fogging. of the sensitive emulsions by the colloidal silver.
  • a photographic material adapted for use in colour photography which comprisesthree differently sensitisedv gelatinoesilver halide .emulsion layers containin yellow, magenta and cyan colour formers superimposed on a support, characterised in that one of the outermost sensitive layers is sensitive to blue light and is adjacent to, and; not separated by a filter layer from the middle sensitive layer which middle sensitive layer contains a yellow styryl dyestuif as hereinafter defined.
  • the yellow styryl dyestuffs used in; the process of the present invention which function both as a yellow filter 'dyestuff and as amagenta colour former arethe water'soluble dyestuffs which carry a substituent rendering the dyestuff' non-diffusible, for example a substituent containing an alkyl chain of at least 5 carbon atoms, and which are obtainable by condensing a reactive methylene compound with an anil of a Water-soluble or alkali-soluble aldehyde of the formula and wherein at least one of the radicals R1 and.
  • R2 is an alkyl radical substituted with for exam-. ple, CN, COOAlkyl, NO2 carboxyl or sulphonic acid groups, and, when only one. of the radicals R1 and R2 is an alkyl radical so substituted, the other radical isa substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical.
  • Suitable styryl'dyestufis may be obtained by condensing an anil of a p-substituted-aminobenzaldehyde with a reactive methylene compound of the kind used for forming magenta dyestuffs in colour photography by reaction with colour developers.
  • reactive methylene compounds may be for example, compounds of the pyrazolone series or of the cyanoacetylseries.
  • p-substituted-amino-benzaldehydes there may be mentioned for example p-(N- methyl N sulphoethyl amino) -benzaldehyde, p-(N :N 5:5 disulphodiethylamino) -benzaldehyde, 4-(NzN' 6:18 disulphodiethylamino)-2- methyl benzaldehyde, p-(N-methyl-N-carboxyethylamino)-benzaldehyde, p-(N:N-;9:;8.' dicarboxydiethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p-N :N-di(carboxymethyD-amino benzaldehyde, p-(N-B-sulphoethylamino) benzaldehyde, 4 (N:N 6:5- dichlorodiethylamino)
  • p-NzN-di-(carboxymethyl) -amino benzaldehyde may be made by introducing the aldehyde group into di-(ethylcarboxymethyl) -aniline by the method of Vilsmeier and Haaok (Berichte, volume 60, page 119) and hydrolysing the diester so obtained.
  • Ihe other monoor di-(carboxyalkyl) derivatives may be made by hydrolysis of the appropriate cyanoalkyl compounds which may be made by treating the corresponding hydroxyalkyl or dihydroxydialkyl anilines with phosphorus pentabromide, treating the corresponding bromoalkyl or dibromodialkyl compounds so obtained with potassium cyanide, and introducing the aldehyde group by reaction with phosphorus oxychloride and N-methylformanilide and subsequent hydrolysis, that is to say by the methods of Vilsmeier and Haack (Berichte, volume 60, page 119).
  • the monoand di-(sulphoalkyl) derivatives may be made by the action of sodium sulphite on the corresponding chloroalkyl compounds.
  • top layer is blue sensitive, the material will be exposed in the normal way to light, but if the bottom layer is blue sensitive, the material will be exposed to light through the support.
  • the photographic material in which the photographic material is especially valuable for use in the production of colour positive transparencies and prints, there are 3 sensitive layers superimposed on the support, the top layer being blue sensitive (that is not spectrally sensitised) and containing a yellow colour former, the middle layer containing a styryl dyestuff as hereinbefore defined, which serves both as a yellow filter dyestufi and as a magenta colour former and the bottom layer containing a cyan colour former, either the middle layer or the bottom layer being red sensitive and the other being green sensitive.
  • the top layer being blue sensitive (that is not spectrally sensitised) and containing a yellow colour former
  • the middle layer containing a styryl dyestuff as hereinbefore defined, which serves both as a yellow filter dyestufi and as a magenta colour former and the bottom layer containing a cyan colour former, either the middle layer or the bottom layer being red sensitive and the other being green sensitive.
  • Such a photographic material may be exposed and processed by known means when the filter dyestuff is largely discharged in the developing process.
  • the material may, if desired, be treated after the development step with hydrazine hydrate which may if desired be added to the fixing bath.
  • magenta dyestuiT obtained from the yellow styryl dyestuff is not entirely suitable for a positive print or transparency, then some modification is possible by the addition to the yellow styryl dyestuff of a small proportion of a colourless colour former yielding a suitable magenta dyestuil.
  • a second embodiment of our invention in which the photographic material is especially valuable for the production of negative transparencies, there are 3 sensitive layers superimposed on a support, the top layer being blue sensitive (that is not spectrally sensitised) and containing a yellow colour former, the middle layer containing a mixture of a yellow styryl dyestufi as hereinbefore defined and a yellow styryl dyestuff derived from a reactive methylene compound and a water-insoluble and alkali-insoluble p-N-substituted amino-benzaldehyde, and the bottom layer containing a cyan colour former, either the middle layer or the bottom layer being red sensitive and the other being green sensitive.
  • Suitable water-insoluble and alkali-insoluble p-N-substituted amino-benzaldehyde are p- (N-methyl-N-fi-hydroxyethylamino) benzaldehyde, p-(N-ethylN B hydroxyethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (,3 c-dihydroxydiethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (N-methyl-N-methoxyethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (N-ethyl-N-methoxyethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (N-butyl-N-fi hydroxyethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (N-methyl-N-e-chloroethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p-(N- ethyl
  • Such a photographic material may be exposed and developed, bleached and fixed by known means and then treated with formaldehyde or sodium nitrite when a yellow colour correction mask is formed in the middle layer. It is su gested as a possible explanation of this process that both styryl dyestuifs function as filter dyestuffs and colour formers and that in the development with an aromatic amine as developer, magenta images are formed in the exposed parts of the middle layer by the action of the oxidation product of the developer on the styryl dyestuffs and the rest of the styryl dyestuffs are decomposed by the developer to give the parent reactive methylene compounds and also anils formed from the parent aldehydes by reaction with the developer.
  • the anil from the soluble aldehyde is washed out from the photographic material during the processing steps.
  • the insoluble aldehyde is liberated from the corresponding anil by the action of formaldehyde or sodium nitrite and it then reacts with the reactive methylene compound to re-form the yellow styryl dyestuiT. Since the concentration of residual reactive methylene compound Will be much higher in the counter-imagewise parts of the layer than in the imagewise parts (where it has been used for forming magenta dyestuffs) then the intensity of yellow styryl dyestuff formed will be higher in the counter-imagewise parts and accordingly the, styryl dyestuiT will form a colour correction masking image.
  • the strength of the masking image can be controlled by adjusting the proportions of the two styryl dyestuffs in the layer.
  • Example 1 A multilayer light sensitive photographic paper is made up as follows:
  • a red sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion layer containing 10 grams per litre of the sodium salt of the cyan colour forming component l-hydroxyl-sulpho- 2 naphthoyloctadecylamide is coated on a paper support and on this layer there is coated a gelatin separation layer and subsequently a green sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion layer containing 15 grams per litre of the sodium salt of the yellow styryl dyestuff 1- (4'-phenoxy-3'-sulphophenyl) -3-heptadecyl 4 p N:N- di (carboxyethyl) aminobenzylidene-S-pyrazolone, to act both as the magenta colour forming component and also as the yellow filter dyestuff.
  • a gelatin separation layer is then coated and finally as the top layer there is coated a blue sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion containing 10 grams per litre of p-stearylamino-benzoylacetanilide-p'-carboxylic acid sodium salt, the yellow colour forming component described in Example 3 of British specification No. 486,848.
  • the paper is exposed to the light transmitted by a subtractively coloured negative transparency and then developed in a solution of the following composition:
  • the paper is further washed andltreatedulna fixing and dyestuff-discharee solutionof the following composition:
  • the paper is finally washed and dried when a positive paper print is obtained.
  • This layer serves as a yellow filter layer, and provides the magenta colour forming components and also the yellow masking dyestufi.
  • a blue sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion containing 10 grams per litre of p-stearylamino-benzoy1acetanilide 3p carboxylic acid sodium salt (the yellow colour forming component described in Example 3 of British specification No. 486,848)
  • the film is exposed to the light from a coloured object and developed in a developer solution of the following composition:
  • Parts 3 1 p-N N diethylaminoaniline hydrochloride- Sodium sulphite, anhydrous Sodium carbonate, anhydrous 60 Potassium bromide 2 Water to make up to 1000 6 ofthe developer solution has been-removedr duing the processing" and washing steps.
  • the processed material contains in the first layer a cyan dyestuif.,negative image, in the second layer a magenta dyestufi negative image and a yellow styryl dyestufi positive image and in the etopzlayer:a;yellowz:dyestuff :negative' image.
  • Example 4 In addition to the yellow styryl dyestuff of Example 3 there may be added 3 grams of the colourless colour former 1-(4-phenoxy-3'-sulphophenyl) 3 heptadecyl-S-pyrazolone(sodium salt).
  • a photographic material adapted for use in colour photography which comprises three superimposed differently sensitized gelatino-silver halide emulsion layers, the layers comprising a middle sensitive layer between two outermost sensitive layers, said layers containing colour formers which couple with the oxidation product of a primary aromatic amino developer to form the color image and are adapted to yield, upon exposure and development, yellow, cyan and magenta coloured images in separate layers, said material being characterized in that one of the outermost sensitive layers is sensitive to blue light and is adjacent to, and not separated by a filter layer from, the middle sensitive layer, which middle sensitive layer contains a water-soluble yellow styryl dyestuff carrying a substituent which renders the dyestufi non-difiusible and obtainable by condensing a reactive methylene compound selected from the group consisting of compounds of the pyrazolone and cyanoaeetyl series, with an anil of an aldehyde selected from the group consisting of water-soluble and alkal
  • R is selected from the group consisting of an unsubstituted monocyclic aryl radical and a sulphonic acid substituted monocyclic aryl radical, at least one of the radicals R1 and R2 is a substituted alkyl, said substituent being selected from the group consisting of cyano, carboxy alkyl, nitro, chloro, carboxyl and sulphonic acid groups, and when only one of the radicals R1 and R2 is said substituted alkyl, the other radical is a hydrocarbon radical wherein one of R, R1 and R2 in all cases contains a member from the group consisting of carboxyl and sulphonic acid groups in the case of R1 and R2 and-a sulphonic acid group in the case of R.
  • top layer is blue sensitive and contains a colour former adapted to yield a yellow coloured image upon exposure and development and the bottom layer contains a colour former adapted to yield a cyan coloured image upon exposure and development, one of the layers other than the top layer being red sensitive and the other layer being green sensitive.
  • top layer is blue sensitive and contains a colour former adapted to yield a yellow coloured image upon exposure and development
  • bottom layer contains a colour former adapted to yield a cyan coloured image upon exposure and development
  • middle layer contains a mixture of said yellow styryl dyestufi and a yellow styryl dyestufi which is the condensation product of a reactive methylene compound and a water-insoluble and alkaliinsoluble p-N-substituted amino-benzaldehyde, the substituent on the p-N atom being selected from the group consisting of alkyl, chloroalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, cyanoalkyl, and alkyl carboxyalkyl groups, one of the layers other than the top layer being red sensitive and the other layer being green sensitive.

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Patented Sept. 7, 1954 LIGHT-SENSITIVE COLOR PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL Karl Otto Gauguin and Eric Macdonald, Blackley, Manchester, England, assignors to Imperial Chemical Industries Limited,. a corporation of Great Britain No Drawing. Application November13, 1951, Serial No. 256,127
Claims priority, application Great Britain November 20, 1950 Claims.
This invention relates to colour photography and more particularly to a simplified multilayer material for use in colour photography.
In multilayer photographic films or paper adapted for use. in colour photography which comprise differently sensitised emulsion layers mounted on a film base or paper and wherein the uppermost layer is used for forming the blue record, a yellow filter layer is usually employed between the uppermost (blue sensitive) layer and the other sensitive layers, which in addition to being sensitised to other parts of the spectrum are also sensitive to blue light. The yellow filter layer absorbs the blue light and prevents it striking these lower sensitive layers.
The coating of the yellow filter layer itself provides an undesirable complication of the process of manufacture of .the photographic film or paper and when colloidal silver is used in theyellow filter layer, as is usual in commercial processes, further complications are-- introduced by the necessity of coating separationlayers between. the filter layer and the light sensitivelayers to avoid fogging. of the sensitive emulsions by the colloidal silver.
It is known that when a yellow dyestuff, even invhighconcentration, is introduced into a single light-sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion layer, the layer is still partiallysensitive tov the blue light striking the light sensitive silver halide at or near the surface ofthelayer, but we have found that whena blue sensitive layer is coated on top of alight sensitive layer containing a yellow styryl dyestufi as hereinafter defined the latter layer is entirely or almost unaffected by normal exposureto blue light which .-has.passed through the superimposed. blue sensitive layer. By a blue sensitivelayer we mean a layer of light sensitive. gelatino-silver halide emulsion which has not been speotrally sensitised to parts of the spectrum other than blue.
According to our inventionwe provide a photographic material adapted for use in colour photography which comprisesthree differently sensitisedv gelatinoesilver halide .emulsion layers containin yellow, magenta and cyan colour formers superimposed on a support, characterised in that one of the outermost sensitive layers is sensitive to blue light and is adjacent to, and; not separated by a filter layer from the middle sensitive layer which middle sensitive layer contains a yellow styryl dyestuif as hereinafter defined.
The yellow styryl dyestuffs used in; the process of the present invention which function both as a yellow filter 'dyestuff and as amagenta colour former arethe water'soluble dyestuffs which carry a substituent rendering the dyestuff' non-diffusible, for example a substituent containing an alkyl chain of at least 5 carbon atoms, and which are obtainable by condensing a reactive methylene compound with an anil of a Water-soluble or alkali-soluble aldehyde of the formula and wherein at least one of the radicals R1 and.
R2 is an alkyl radical substituted with for exam-. ple, CN, COOAlkyl, NO2 carboxyl or sulphonic acid groups, and, when only one. of the radicals R1 and R2 is an alkyl radical so substituted, the other radical isa substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical.
Suitable styryl'dyestufis may be obtained by condensing an anil of a p-substituted-aminobenzaldehyde with a reactive methylene compound of the kind used for forming magenta dyestuffs in colour photography by reaction with colour developers. These reactive methylene compounds may be for example, compounds of the pyrazolone series or of the cyanoacetylseries.
Specific examples of suitable reactive methylene compounds are 1(4=-phenoxy-3-sulphophenyl) -3-heptadecyl 5-pyrazolone, l-(phenyl- 3'-methanesulphonic acid) -3 heptadecyl-5-pyrazolone, and the compound obtained by acylating d-omega-cyanoacetaniline with octadecenylsuccinic anhydride.
As suitable p-substituted-amino-benzaldehydes there may be mentioned for example p-(N- methyl N sulphoethyl amino) -benzaldehyde, p-(N :N 5:5 disulphodiethylamino) -benzaldehyde, 4-(NzN' 6:18 disulphodiethylamino)-2- methyl benzaldehyde, p-(N-methyl-N-carboxyethylamino)-benzaldehyde, p-(N:N-;9:;8.' dicarboxydiethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p-N :N-di(carboxymethyD-amino benzaldehyde, p-(N-B-sulphoethylamino) benzaldehyde, 4 (N:N 6:5- dichlorodiethylamino) -2-sulpho-benzaldehyde.
p-NzN-di-(carboxymethyl) -amino benzaldehyde may be made by introducing the aldehyde group into di-(ethylcarboxymethyl) -aniline by the method of Vilsmeier and Haaok (Berichte, volume 60, page 119) and hydrolysing the diester so obtained. Ihe other monoor di-(carboxyalkyl) derivatives may be made by hydrolysis of the appropriate cyanoalkyl compounds which may be made by treating the corresponding hydroxyalkyl or dihydroxydialkyl anilines with phosphorus pentabromide, treating the corresponding bromoalkyl or dibromodialkyl compounds so obtained with potassium cyanide, and introducing the aldehyde group by reaction with phosphorus oxychloride and N-methylformanilide and subsequent hydrolysis, that is to say by the methods of Vilsmeier and Haack (Berichte, volume 60, page 119). The monoand di-(sulphoalkyl) derivatives may be made by the action of sodium sulphite on the corresponding chloroalkyl compounds.
It will be apparent that if the top layer is blue sensitive, the material will be exposed in the normal way to light, but if the bottom layer is blue sensitive, the material will be exposed to light through the support.
In one embodiment of our invention in which the photographic material is especially valuable for use in the production of colour positive transparencies and prints, there are 3 sensitive layers superimposed on the support, the top layer being blue sensitive (that is not spectrally sensitised) and containing a yellow colour former, the middle layer containing a styryl dyestuff as hereinbefore defined, which serves both as a yellow filter dyestufi and as a magenta colour former and the bottom layer containing a cyan colour former, either the middle layer or the bottom layer being red sensitive and the other being green sensitive.
Such a photographic material may be exposed and processed by known means when the filter dyestuff is largely discharged in the developing process. To ensure complete discharge of the dyestuff the material, may, if desired, be treated after the development step with hydrazine hydrate which may if desired be added to the fixing bath.
If the spectral absorption of the magenta dyestuiT obtained from the yellow styryl dyestuff is not entirely suitable for a positive print or transparency, then some modification is possible by the addition to the yellow styryl dyestuff of a small proportion of a colourless colour former yielding a suitable magenta dyestuil.
In a second embodiment of our invention, in which the photographic material is especially valuable for the production of negative transparencies, there are 3 sensitive layers superimposed on a support, the top layer being blue sensitive (that is not spectrally sensitised) and containing a yellow colour former, the middle layer containing a mixture of a yellow styryl dyestufi as hereinbefore defined and a yellow styryl dyestuff derived from a reactive methylene compound and a water-insoluble and alkali-insoluble p-N-substituted amino-benzaldehyde, and the bottom layer containing a cyan colour former, either the middle layer or the bottom layer being red sensitive and the other being green sensitive.
Examples of suitable water-insoluble and alkali-insoluble p-N-substituted amino-benzaldehyde are p- (N-methyl-N-fi-hydroxyethylamino) benzaldehyde, p-(N-ethylN B hydroxyethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (,3 c-dihydroxydiethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (N-methyl-N-methoxyethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (N-ethyl-N-methoxyethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (N-butyl-N-fi hydroxyethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (N-methyl-N-e-chloroethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p-(N- ethyl-N-c-chloroethylamino) -benzaldehyde, p- (13: 3 dichlorodiethylamino) benzaldehyde, 4- (fi:;3' dichlorodiethylamino) 2 methylbenzaldehyde, p- (N methyl-N-fl-cyanoethylamino) benzaldehyde, p (5: 3 dicyanodiethylamino) benzaldehyde and p di (ethylcarboxymethyl) amino-benzaldehyde.
Such a photographic material may be exposed and developed, bleached and fixed by known means and then treated with formaldehyde or sodium nitrite when a yellow colour correction mask is formed in the middle layer. It is su gested as a possible explanation of this process that both styryl dyestuifs function as filter dyestuffs and colour formers and that in the development with an aromatic amine as developer, magenta images are formed in the exposed parts of the middle layer by the action of the oxidation product of the developer on the styryl dyestuffs and the rest of the styryl dyestuffs are decomposed by the developer to give the parent reactive methylene compounds and also anils formed from the parent aldehydes by reaction with the developer. The anil from the soluble aldehyde is washed out from the photographic material during the processing steps. The insoluble aldehyde is liberated from the corresponding anil by the action of formaldehyde or sodium nitrite and it then reacts with the reactive methylene compound to re-form the yellow styryl dyestuiT. Since the concentration of residual reactive methylene compound Will be much higher in the counter-imagewise parts of the layer than in the imagewise parts (where it has been used for forming magenta dyestuffs) then the intensity of yellow styryl dyestuff formed will be higher in the counter-imagewise parts and accordingly the, styryl dyestuiT will form a colour correction masking image.
It will be apparent that the strength of the masking image can be controlled by adjusting the proportions of the two styryl dyestuffs in the layer.
The invention is illustrated but not limited by the following examples in which the parts are by weight:
Example 1 A multilayer light sensitive photographic paper is made up as follows:
A red sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion layer containing 10 grams per litre of the sodium salt of the cyan colour forming component l-hydroxyl-sulpho- 2 naphthoyloctadecylamide is coated on a paper support and on this layer there is coated a gelatin separation layer and subsequently a green sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion layer containing 15 grams per litre of the sodium salt of the yellow styryl dyestuff 1- (4'-phenoxy-3'-sulphophenyl) -3-heptadecyl 4 p N:N- di (carboxyethyl) aminobenzylidene-S-pyrazolone, to act both as the magenta colour forming component and also as the yellow filter dyestuff. A gelatin separation layer is then coated and finally as the top layer there is coated a blue sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion containing 10 grams per litre of p-stearylamino-benzoylacetanilide-p'-carboxylic acid sodium salt, the yellow colour forming component described in Example 3 of British specification No. 486,848.
The paper is exposed to the light transmitted by a subtractively coloured negative transparency and then developed in a solution of the following composition:
The paper 'is rinse'd and transferred *toa stop bath or the following composition:
Parts "Acetic acid, glacial -15 i'Sodium'acetate -'-30 I Water tomake'up to 1000 The paper is washed-and transferred toa bleach- .ing' solution of the following composition:
The paper is further washed andltreatedulna fixing and dyestuff-discharee solutionof the following composition:
Parts Sodium thiosulphate H200 50% hydrazinelhydrate solution .100 Water to make upto 1.000
The paper is finally washed and dried when a positive paper print is obtained.
Example? ,A .multilayer light sensitive photographic ,material'is made up as'follows:
.A red sensitive gelatino-silverhalideemulsion .layercontaining grams per litre of the sodium salt or the cyan colourforming component-obtained by condensing 'l-hydroxy-z-naphthoic acid-chloride with oleylamine and sulphonating (that is the colour forming componentdescribed in Example 10 of British specification No. 465,823) is coated on a transparent support and on this layer there is coated a green sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion layer containing 12 grams per litre of the styryl dyestufi 1-(4- phenoxy 3' sulphophenyl) 3 heptadecyl- 4 p di( 8 cyanoethyl) amino benzylidene- 5-pyrazolone sodium salt, derived from the insoluble aldehyde p-di-(B-cyanoethyl) -amino-benzaldehyde and 5 grams per litre of the styryl dyestuff 1- (4-phenoxy-3 -sulphophenyl) -3-heptadecyl 4 p di (oarboxyethyl) amino benzylidene-S-pyrazolone sodium salt, derived from the soluble aldehyde p-(5:/3-dicarboxydiethylamino)-benzaldehyde. This layer serves as a yellow filter layer, and provides the magenta colour forming components and also the yellow masking dyestufi. Finally as the top layer there is coated a blue sensitive gelatino-silver halide emulsion containing 10 grams per litre of p-stearylamino-benzoy1acetanilide 3p carboxylic acid sodium salt (the yellow colour forming component described in Example 3 of British specification No. 486,848) The film is exposed to the light from a coloured object and developed in a developer solution of the following composition:
Parts 3 1 p-N N diethylaminoaniline hydrochloride- Sodium sulphite, anhydrous Sodium carbonate, anhydrous 60 Potassium bromide 2 Water to make up to 1000 6 ofthe developer solution has been-removedr duing the processing" and washing steps.
The processed material contains in the first layer a cyan dyestuif.,negative image, in the second layer a magenta dyestufi negative image and a yellow styryl dyestufi positive image and in the etopzlayer:a;yellowz:dyestuff :negative' image.
Trample 3 Al-multilayer material madeeup. asidescribed win:; Examplei .1,',.but -in.p1ace of :the;. y.el1ow styryl .dyestuff: described there. is used-215 grams ;per.llitre of the :dyestuff s-l-;3voctadecenyl-sucoinamidoel- ::omega-cyanoeomega-dpeN,:N-di-idarboxyethyl) eamino-benzylidenelnacetobenzenetsodium @salt). The l- 'paper-ds exposedto the {light transmittedrby aesubtractively. coloured ,negativetransparency and :thendeveloped ina-solution otthe following composition:
:Barts :5+diethylamino-z-aminotoluene hydrochloiillide 1; 2.5 -;Sodium sulphitecanhydrous 2 :Hydroxylamine hydrochloride 1 -:Sodium carbonate, zanhydrous M .60 Potassium:bromide ..,-2 -Waten'to.makerup-ton10 .0
The paper is-"rinsed and transferred =to-a-stop bath of the following'composition:
Parts Potassium ferricyanide 1 00 "Potassium'bromi'cle Sodium dihydrogen phosphate '50 -"*Watertomake;up"to -1'000 Parts Sodium thiosulphate 200 hydrazine hydrate solution Water to make up to 1000 The paper is finally washed and dried, when a positive paper print is obtained.
Example 4 In addition to the yellow styryl dyestuff of Example 3 there may be added 3 grams of the colourless colour former 1-(4-phenoxy-3'-sulphophenyl) 3 heptadecyl-S-pyrazolone(sodium salt).
What we claim is:
l. A photographic material adapted for use in colour photography which comprises three superimposed differently sensitized gelatino-silver halide emulsion layers, the layers comprising a middle sensitive layer between two outermost sensitive layers, said layers containing colour formers which couple with the oxidation product of a primary aromatic amino developer to form the color image and are adapted to yield, upon exposure and development, yellow, cyan and magenta coloured images in separate layers, said material being characterized in that one of the outermost sensitive layers is sensitive to blue light and is adjacent to, and not separated by a filter layer from, the middle sensitive layer, which middle sensitive layer contains a water-soluble yellow styryl dyestuff carrying a substituent which renders the dyestufi non-difiusible and obtainable by condensing a reactive methylene compound selected from the group consisting of compounds of the pyrazolone and cyanoaeetyl series, with an anil of an aldehyde selected from the group consisting of water-soluble and alkalisoluble aldehydes of the formula:
wherein R is selected from the group consisting of an unsubstituted monocyclic aryl radical and a sulphonic acid substituted monocyclic aryl radical, at least one of the radicals R1 and R2 is a substituted alkyl, said substituent being selected from the group consisting of cyano, carboxy alkyl, nitro, chloro, carboxyl and sulphonic acid groups, and when only one of the radicals R1 and R2 is said substituted alkyl, the other radical is a hydrocarbon radical wherein one of R, R1 and R2 in all cases contains a member from the group consisting of carboxyl and sulphonic acid groups in the case of R1 and R2 and-a sulphonic acid group in the case of R.
2. A photographic material as defined in claim 1, wherein the top layer is blue sensitive and contains a colour former adapted to yield a yellow coloured image upon exposure and development and the bottom layer contains a colour former adapted to yield a cyan coloured image upon exposure and development, one of the layers other than the top layer being red sensitive and the other layer being green sensitive.
3. A photographic material as described in claim 2, wherein the middle layer contains a colourless colour former in addition to the styryl dyestufif.
4. A photographic material as described in claim 1, wherein the top layer is blue sensitive and contains a colour former adapted to yield a yellow coloured image upon exposure and development, the bottom layer contains a colour former adapted to yield a cyan coloured image upon exposure and development, and the middle layer contains a mixture of said yellow styryl dyestufi and a yellow styryl dyestufi which is the condensation product of a reactive methylene compound and a water-insoluble and alkaliinsoluble p-N-substituted amino-benzaldehyde, the substituent on the p-N atom being selected from the group consisting of alkyl, chloroalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, cyanoalkyl, and alkyl carboxyalkyl groups, one of the layers other than the top layer being red sensitive and the other layer being green sensitive.
5. The photographic material as described in claim 4, wherein the condensation product of the reactive methylene compound and the waterinsoluble and alkali-insoluble p-N-substituted amino-benzaldehyde contains a substituent which renders the dyestuff non-difiusible.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,036,546 Schneider Apr. '7, 1936 2,186,731 Schneider Jan. 9, 1940 2,428,054 Vittum et a1 Sept. 30, 1947 2,449,966 Hanson Sept. 21, 1948 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 513,596 Great Britain Oct. 17, 1939

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1. A PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL ADAPTED FOR USE IN COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY WHICH COMPRISES THREE SUPERIMPOSED DIFFERENTLY SENSITIZED GELATINO-SILVER HALIDE EMULSION LAYERS, THE LAYERS COMPRISING A MIDDLE SENSITIVE LAYER BETWEEN TWO OUTERMOST SENSITIVE LAYERS; SAID LAYERS CONTAINING COLOUR FORMERS WHICH COUPLE WITH THE OXIDATION PRODUCT OF A PRIMARY AROMATIC AMINO DEVELOPER TO FORM THE COLOR IMAGE AND ARE ADAPTED TO YIELD, UPON EXPOSURE AND DEVELOPMENT, YELLOW, CYAN AND MAGENTA COLOURED IMAGES IN SEPARATE LAYERS, SAID MATERIAL BEING CHARACTERIZED IN THAT ONE OF THE OUTERMOST SENSITIVE LAYERS IS SENSITIVE TO BLUE LIGHT AND IS ADJACENT TO, AND NOT SEPARATED BY A FILTER LAYER FROM, THE MIDDLE SENSITIVE LAYER, WHICH MIDDLE SENSITIVE LAYERS CONTAINS A WATER-SOLUBLE YELLOW STYRYL DYESTUFF CARRYING A SUBSTITUENT WHICH RENDERS THE DYESTUFF NON-DIFFUSIBLE AND OBTAINABLE BY CONDENSING A REACTIVE METHYLENE COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF COMPOUNDS OF THE PYRAZOLONE AND CYANOACETYL SERIES, WITH AN ANIL OF AN ALDEHYDE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF WATER-SOLUBLE AND ALKALISOLUBLE ALDEHYDES OF THE FORMULA:
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