Agfacolor was a series of color film products made by the German company Agfa. Agfacolor’s first product, introduced in 1932, was a film-based version of their Agfa-Farbenplatte, a “screen plate” similar to Autochrome. Agfa introduced Agfacolor Neu (New Agfacolor) in 1936, a pioneering color film still widely used today. Originally, Agfacolor was a reversal film used for making slides, home movies, and documentary shorts. The German motion picture industry had also adapted it into a negative and a print film by 1939.
The Agfacolor brand was applied to several varieties of color negative film for still photography after World War II, which was used to make color prints on paper. The reversal film was then marketed as Agfachrome. The film uses Color Developing Agent 1 as its color developer.
Here is a set of rare Agfacolor slides that shows life in Germany in the late 1930s.
