The first processes for colour photography appeared in the 1890s. Based on the theory demonstrated in the 1860s by James Clerk Maxwell, they reproduced colour by mixing red, green and blue light.
When was colour photography film invented?
The first commercially successful color photography process appeared on the market in 1907, when the French Lumière brothers, by then famous in the world of cinema, introduced the Lumière Autochrome.
Was there color photography in the 1940s?
According to the Library of Congress, these original-color images focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of World War II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working.
Was there color photography in the 1960s?
There are really several answers to the question of when we first saw color photography. If you're wondering when the first time any human ever captured colored light coming into a camera, that'd be the year 1861. Well, when it came into common use for amateur home photographers, that was the 1960s.