Abstract: A color photographic material with at least one silver halide emulsion layer which contains a color coupler distributed in a polymeric oil former and at least one compound of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which R means alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, aryl, acyl, alkylsulphonyl or arylsulphonyl,R.sub.1 means a chemical bond or a divalent bridging member,R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 mean alkyl, alkoxy, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or aryloxy or two residues R.sub.2 or R.sub.3 the remaining atoms of a benzene ring condensed with the phenyl residue andm and n mean 0 to 3, wherein all alkyl, alkoxy, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, aryl, aryloxy and acyl residues may be further substituted,is characterized by improved color stability.

Abstract: Disclosed is a positive type silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a mainly yellow image forming layer, a mainly magenta image forming layer and a mainly cyan image forming layer; wherein, when an exposure is conducted with 1/10 to 10 times an exposure amount giving minimum density of +0.2 on a first layer selected from said three layer after developing in the main spectra sensitivity region of the first layer, a second layer selected from said three layers is given lower density with said exposure than a density without said exposure; and after a photographic process comprising a color developing step, the mainly yellow, mainly magenta and mainly cyan image forming layers have the monochromatic yellow, magenta and cyan tones in toe portions thereof each of not less than 1.7. The silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is capable of providing a color proof improved in the approximation degrees of an image quality to a printed matter.

Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support, at least one photosensitive silver halide layer and associated therewith a color coupler and a stabilizer therefor which stabilizer is an acrylate or acrylamide homopolymer or copolymer of low water solubility, the color coupler being of the general formula (1) or (2): ##STR1## wherein A and B represent the same or different electron-withdrawing group,X is H or a group which splits off on coupling with oxidised color developer,R is an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or heterocyclic which may be substituted, --COR.sup.1, --CSR.sup.1, SOR.sup.1, SO.sub.2 R.sup.1, --NHCOR.sup.1, --CONHR.sup.1, --COOR.sup.1, --COSR.sup.1, --NHSO.sub.2 R.sup.1 wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl, cycloalkyl, or aryl group any of which are optionally substituted, and wherein two or more of A, B, R, and X optionally form part of a ring,Link is a linking group andn is 0, 1 or 2.

Abstract: Process for forming a microcrystalline coupler dispersion comprising the steps of: providing crystalline coupler in an aqueous suspension; dispersing said coupler with mechanical shear, combining said coupler dispersion with an activating water-immiscible organic solvent; and mixing said combined dispersion is disclosed.

Abstract: Photographic coupler compositions comprise a magenta dye-forming coupler and an alcohol in an amount sufficient to increase the activity of the dye-forming coupler. The alcohol is of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of (a) unsubstituted alkyl and alkenyl groups, (b) alkyl groups containing one or more substitutents selected from the group consisting of aryl groups, alkenyl groups, halogen atoms, alkoxy groups, alkoxy carbonyl groups and acyloxy groups, (c) unsubstituted aryl groups and (d) aryl groups containing one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups, alkoxy groups, alkoxy carbonyl groups and acyloxy groups; and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are individually selected from hydrogen and the group of moieties from which R is selected, provided that the total number of carbon atoms contained in R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is at least 10.

Abstract: A photographic element containing a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith, a dye-forming coupler and a dye stabilizer which has a melting point of less than 150.degree. C. (and preferably less than 100.degree. C.) and is of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R, m, q, X, Y, r, and (R.sup.7).sub.n are defined in the specification.The element particularly contains a coupler which forms a yellow dye upon reaction with oxidized developer. A method of making stabilizers of the above type using particular solvents and a non-aqueous workup, is also provided.

Abstract: Yellowing, dye fade and thermal pinking of a processed color photographic element is improved by incorporating into the photographic element a non-color forming, oil-soluble, monomeric or oligomeric organic compound having a glass transition temperature between 0.degree. and 150.degree. C. Preferred organic compounds include rosin derivatives, natural resins and oil-soluble sucrose esters, etc. In a particularly preferred embodiment, the above-noted properties are improved by incorporating into the photographic element an oil-soluble rosin derivative, such as abietic acid.

Abstract: A multilayer silver halide color light-sensitive material including a yellow color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, and a cyan color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, on a support. The light-sensitive material contains, in the yellow color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, at least one acylacetamide-type yellow coupler having an acyl group of a specified structure, and at least one organic compound selected from the group consisting of specified epoxy compounds, specified amide compounds, and esters having a melting point of 25.degree. C. or more at normal pressure and a molecular weight of 1000 or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material which contains at least one pyrroloazole compound as cyan coupler and has a layer structure in which a cyan coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer is disposed in the position nearer to a support than at least either a magenta coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer or a yellow coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer, whereby ensuring excellent color reproducibility and high fastness in color images.

Abstract: A color image-forming method wherein a cyan dye image having an excellent hue and less fading due to light and humidity can be obtained and the discharge amount of a processing solution can be reduced is disclosed, which comprises subjecting a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support, having provided thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, and a non-light-sensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, to an exposure and then to a color development with a color developing solution, wherein the above silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains at least one scarcely water soluble epoxy compound having at least one group represented by Formula (AO) in at least one layer of the silver halide emulsion layers and non-light-sensitive hydrop

Abstract: A method of forming a photographic colour image which comprises imagewise exposing a photographic silver halide colour material and processing it with an alkaline developer solution in the presence of a sulphonhydrazide developer and a heteroarylacetonitrile colour coupler thus forming a dye image by reaction of oxidised colour developing agent and the colour coupler. A colour photographic material is also provided having at least two colour-forming units sensitive to different regions of the spectrum, each having a silver halide emulsion layer, characterised in that the material contains in or adjacent said layer, a ballasted photographic colour coupler and a ballasted sulphonhydrazide colour developing agent incorporated therein in droplets of a high boiling solvent and in which the colour coupler is a heteroarylacetonitrile.

Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material comprising a support provided thereon at least one layer containing at least one compound represented by the following general formula (A): ##STR1## In the formula, L.sub.1 represents an alkylene or arylene group; R.sub.1 represents a substituent which can be substituted for a hydrogen of the benzene ring; m represents an integer 2 to 7; and n is 0 or an integer of 1 to 4, with the proviso that when either or both of m and n are at least two, the plurality of L.sub.1 groups and/or R.sub.1 groups may be the same or different, and with the proviso that the compound of formula (A) does not form a polymer via an R.sub.1 group. In a preferred embodiment, at least one compound represented by formula (A) is incorporated into a photographic silver halide emulsion layer.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material excellent in color reproducibility, color forming property, color image fastness and processing dependency. The material comprises a yellow color forming silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support, said layer containing at least one yellow color forming coupler represented by general formula (I) dispersed by dissolution in a high boiling organic solvent in a weight ratio of the high boiling organic solvent to the yellow color forming coupler of 0.6 or more: ##STR1## wherein X represents an organic residue necessary for forming a nitrogen-containing heterocycle with a nitrogen atom; Y represents an aromatic group or a heterocyclic group; Z represents a group which is eliminatable by reaction of the coupler represented by general formula (I) with an oxidation product of a developing agent.

Abstract: The invention provides a photographic dispersion for inducing dye stability in the eventual photographic product. The invention provides in a first aspect a photographic dispersion comprising a photographic coupler and a solvent therefore wherein the solvent is solid at its temperature of fade concern thereby to promote dye stability in use.The invention also provides a photographic coupler and a solvent therefor wherein the solvent is an alkyl alcohol or an optionally substituted dialkyl or diaryl phosphate. The coupler may have a ballasted chain having a matched molecular structure thereby to further promote dye stability in use.

Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, and the silver halide emulsion layer comprises silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of not less than 95 mol %. The emulsion is optically sensitized by addition of a dispersion of an optical sensitizer comprising a medium and particles of the dye dispersed in the medium. The ratio of silver to gelatin (Ag/Gel) in the emulsion at the time of addition of the dispersion of the dye is 2 to 8.5.

Abstract: A photographic coupler dispersion comprising colloidal microcrystalline particles of coupler, wherein said particles are wetted with an activating and water-immiscible organic solvent, and a color photographic element comprising a support bearing at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer and a microcrystalline coupler dispersion in reactive association with said emulsion layer, wherein said coupler is wetted with an activating water-immiscible organic solvent are disclosed.

Abstract: A thermally developable color photosensitive material comprises a support, having thereon a photosensitive silver halide, a binder, an electron transfer agent, an electron donor, and a reducible dye donating compound which is capable of being reduced and releasing a diffusible dye, wherein the reducible dye donating compound and a compound represented by the following formula (1) are present together in the form of an emulsified dispersion in the binder.

Abstract: In a multilayered silver halide color light-sensitive sensitive material having a yellow dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye forming silver halide emulsion layer, and a cyan dye forming silver halide emulsion layer on a support, at least one type of an acylacetamide-based yellow coupler in which the acyl group in the acylacetamide is represented by formula (I) below and at least one type of a water-insoluble polymer are contained in the yellow dye forming layer, In formula (I), R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, and Q represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form, together with C, a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring having at least one hereto atom selected from N, S, O, and P in the ring, R.sub.

Abstract: The invention discloses a continuous method of manufacture of gelled dispersion melts of "small-particle" microprecipitated photographic agents. The continuous melt manufacturing process of this invention provides dispersion melts that are invariant in agent concentration, melt viscosity, and turbidity as a function of the run time and are also very reproducible and robust in repetitive preparations. Many photographic melts of this invention exhibit high photographic activity and light stability of the agents when exposed to light.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said green-sensitive emulsion layer contains at least one coupler represented by Formula M-I and at least one of a non-color-forming compound represented by Formula A-1 or A-2: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of splitting upon making a reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agent; and Z represents a group consisting of metal atoms necessary to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring:Formula (A-1)R.sub.21 --NHSO.sub.2 --R.sub.22wherein R.sub.21 and R.sub.

Abstract: Fine particle photographic coupler dispersions are prepared by forming a dispersion of a photographic coupler, coupler solvent and auxiliary coupler solvent in an aqueous gelatin medium containing at least about 1% by weight of an anionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkali metal salts of alkarylene sulfonic acids, alkali metal salts of alkyl sulfates, alkaryl sulfonate salts, and alkyl sulfosuccinates; and washing the dispersion with water for a time sufficient to remove at least one-fourth of the surfactant.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material comprising at least one sparingly water-soluble epoxy compound represented by formula (I), (II), or (III) and a silver halide emulsion layer which comprises high-silver-chloride grains containing metal ions and/or having silver bromide localized phases on the surface thereof, and/or that have been sensitized by a gold compound: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a halogen atom; L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 each represent a divalent aliphatic group, which may be substituted or unsubstituted; M.sup.1 represents an oxygen atom or a nitrogen atom; A represents a polyvalent linking group; a, b, and c each are an integer of 0 to 4; x and y each are an actual number of 0 to 20; l is 1 or 2; and m represents an integer of 2 to 4.

Abstract: Color photographic materials comprise a substrate bearing a silver halide emulsion and a coupler composition comprising (a) a 2-phenylcarbamoyl-1-naphthol compound selected from the group consisting of development inhibitor releasing couplers and timed development inhibiting releasing couplers, and (b) a carbonamide coupler solvent. The carbonamide coupler solvent is employed to reduce dye density changes and/or dye hue changes resulting from cold storage of the photographic materials.

Abstract: A silver halide photo-sensitive material comprising a support, and at least one silver halide emulsion layer, on said support containing at least one compound having the following general formula (I): ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is an aliphatic group, an aryl group, an aliphatic oxy group or an aryloxy group; and X is an alkylene or alkenylene group forming a five- or six-membered ring. In this event, R.sup.1 will not bond to a carbon atom in the ring of X.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing a polyvalent alcohol is disclosed. The polyvalent alcohol has two or more hydroxy group and is water immissible. The polyvalent alcohol is used in combination with a dye forming coupler.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material, which comprises, in a yellow color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, one of nondiffusible yellow couplers represented by formula (I-1) or (I-2) and an organic compound represented by formula (II), or further an organic compound represented by formula (III): ##STR1## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.3 represents an organic residue to form a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group together with the >N--, Y represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and Z represents a hydrogen atom or a coupling-releasing group, ##STR2## wherein R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, and R.sup.7 each represent a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, an aliphatic-oxycarbonyl group, an aromatic-oxycarbonyl group, or a carbamoyl group, provided that each of R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, and R.sup.7 does not represent a hydrogen atom at the same time, ##STR3## wherein R.sup.8, R.sup.

Abstract: A color photographic material and process provide a two-equivalent 3-anilino pyrazolone magenta dye-forming coupler, a phenolic coupler solvent and at least one amine compound.

Abstract: A color photographic recording material containing, on a layer support, at least one blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a yellow coupler associated therewith, at least one green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a magenta coupler associated therewith and at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan coupler associated therewith also contains, in a layer which is not sensitive to light, a compound corresponding to formula I (stabilizer) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 denotes H or a group which can be split off under alkaline development conditions;R.sup.2 denotes H, halogen, OH, an alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, COOR.sup.3, CONR.sup.4 R.sup.5, SO.sub.2 NR.sup.4 R.sup.5, NH--COR.sup.3, NH--SO.sub.2 --R.sup.3 or NH--CO--NHR.sup.4 ;R.sup.3 denotes an alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms,R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 denote H or a group such as R.sup.

Abstract: The invention discloses an aqueous-developable chromogenic photographic heat-transferable non-aqueous dye-diffusion-transfer photographic element comprising radiation sensitive silver halide, a dye-providing compound that forms or releases a heat-transferable, image dye upon reaction of said compound with the oxidation product of a primary amine developing agent, a hydrophilic binder, and a thermal solvent for facilitating non-aqueous diffusion transfer wherein said thermal solvent comprises a sugar group containing amphiphilic compound, said amphiphilic compound comprising from one to three independently constituted 3 to 22 carbon atom hydrophobic tail(s) with one or more attached hydrophilic mono or oligosaccaridic rings or chains such that the HLB value of the compound is less than about 13.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material which contains the combination of a pyrroloazole type cyan coupler and a carboxylic acid ester type high boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of at most 6.0 in a cyan color-forming silver halide emulsion layer and further contains a pyrazoloazole type magenta coupler in a magenta color-forming silver halide emulsion layer, thereby acquiring high color formability, excellent color reproducibility and preventing stains from generating in the white area after photographic processing.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing an oil-in-water type dispersion of a hydrophobic photographically useful substance is disclosed, in which the dispersion is prepared by emulsifying and dispersing a solution (A) of at least one water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble polymer in a substantially water-immiscible organic solvent and a solution (B) of at least one hydrophobic photographically useful substance in a substantially water-immiscible organic solvent in an aqueous medium (C) either simultaneously or separately. The dispersion has improved stability with time, and the photographically useful substance in the dispersed particles exhibits improved stability to light or heat in the photographic material.

Abstract: An aqueous developable chromogenic photographic dye-diffusion transfer element of two or more layers comprising a support, radiation sensitive silver halide, a dye-forming compound wherein said compound forms a heat transferable dye upon reaction of said compound with the oxidation product of a primary amine developing agent, a hydrophilic binder, and a solid particle thermal solvent dispersion, wherein said thermal solvent is a water-immiscible phenol derivative, has a melting point of between 50.degree. C. and about 200.degree. C., and is incorporated at 5 to 200% by weight of said hydrophilic binder, and where said thermal solvent dispersion contains a dispersing aid, is disclosed.

Abstract: Color photographic materials comprise a support bearing a silver halide emulsion and at least one water-dispersible polymeric coupler. The polymeric coupler is formed by polymerization of a mixture of at least one ethylenically unsaturated coupler monomer containing a dye-forming coupler moiety and at least one ionic monomer containing an ionizable functional group, in a water-miscible organic solvent. The polymeric coupler contains less than 10 weight percent of the ionic monomer.

Abstract: Melt crystallization of a photographic composition containing dispersed particles of a filter dye and dispersed particles of oxidized developer scavenger, in particular a hydrazide or a disulfonamidophenol oxidized developer scavenger, is inhibited by dispersing the oxidized developer scavenger in the composition in the form of particles comprising the oxidized developer scavenger dispersed or dissolved in an organic solvent selected such that the following relationship is satisfied:6.65+10.0 A-1.53 B+0.11 B.sup.2 -0.99 AB<4.0wherein A is the weight ratio of organic solvent to oxidized developer scavenger; and B is the log P of the organic solvent.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon a yellow color forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color forming silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan color forming silver halide emulsion layer. The yellow color forming emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion having a silver chloride content of not less than 90 mol %, a yellow coupler and a bisphenol compound and optionally a difficultly water-soluble epoxy compound. One or more layers of the light-sensitive material may contain an ultraviolet light absorber.

Abstract: A sliver halide color photographic material compriseing a support having at least one layer containing at least one a compound of the formula (I), (II) or (III). ##STR1## n=0, 1, or 2.

Abstract: This invention provides composition and method to overcome the very high viscosity of prior small-particle dispersions when admixed with gelatin in aqueous solution for coating a photographic film element.The invention is generally accomplished by the utilization of a second surfactant in the melt formulated by the admixture of the small-particle dispersion and the gelatin solution. The surfactants of this invention, that is, utilized to control the theology of such said melts, have the following general structure: ##STR1## wherein n=5 to 20 andx=1 to 4.

Abstract: An aqueous-developable photographic color diffusion transfer element comprising a single dimensionally stable support and one or more layers comprising radiation sensitive silver halide, thermal solvent for facilitating the thermal diffusion of dyes through a hydrophilic binder, a dye-releasing coupler, and hydrophilic binder, wherein said dye is heat diffusible in said binder and thermal solvent, and wherein said dye-releasing coupler is of the structureCp--L-DyewhereCp is a cyan dye forming radical, magenta dye forming radical, yellow dye forming radical, black dye forming radical, or colorless product forming radical, said Cp being substituted in the coupling position with a divalent linking group, L;Dye is a dye radical exhibiting selective absorption in the visible spectrum; and where said --L-Dye group couples off upon reaction of said coupler radical with the oxidation product of a primary amine developing agent is disclosed.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material enables rapid processing, provides a high quality image and has excellent light fastness under extensive conditions, even under high humidity comprises a support, provided thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers each containing at least one different coupler for forming a different dye by a coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent and each having a different light sensitivity, and at least one anti-color mixing layer provided between each of the emulsion layers and comprising a light-insensitive layer, wherein at least one of the above silver halide emulsion layers contains silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of 90 mole % or more and a magenta coupler represented by the following formula (I) and at least two of the anti-color mixing layers contain at least one anti-color mixing agent having a molecular weight of 350 or more and at least one high boiling organic solvent having the dielec

Abstract: Light-sensitive silver halide color photographic elements comprising a silver halide photographic emulsion layer including a) at least one 2,5-diacylamino phenol cyan coupler dissolved in low-boiling water-immiscible organic solvent droplets dispersed in said emulsion layer in reactive association with at least one non-ionic surfactant compound having a HLB higher than 20 and at least one anionic surfactant compound and b) at least one cationic carbocyanine spectral sensitizing dye.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material capable of providing a dye image having improved spectral absorption characteristic as well as high color-forming property and excellent dye image fastness is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises at least one silver halide emulsion layer having a cyan color-forming property, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer having the cyan color-forming property contains at least one cyan coupler represented by the following formula (I) or (II) and at least one of a sparingly water-soluble homopolymer and/or copolymer: ##STR1## wherein Za and Zb each represents --C(R.sub.3).dbd. or --N.dbd., provided that one of Za and Zb is --N.dbd. and the other is --C(R.sub.3).dbd.; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each are an electron attractive group having a Hammett's substituent constant .sigma..sub.p of 0.2 or more and the sum of the .sigma..sub.p values of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 is 0.65 or more; R.sub.

Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive photographic element comprising a support and provided thereon a plurality of light-sensitive layers including a green-sensitive layer comprising a dispersion of particles in a hydrophilic colloid, the particles comprising a pyrazolazole dye forming coupler dissolved in a coupler solvent comprising a long chain unsaturated alcohol.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer and with a total silver coating amount of silver halide of 2.5 g/m.sup.2 or less, and wherein at least one of the layers of the photosensitive material contains a surfactant containing a (poly)glycerol group.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a compound selected from the group consisting of sparingly water-soluble epoxy compounds represented by formula (I), (II), or (III) given below and a dye-forming coupler in a layer on a base. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each represent an alkyl group or a halogen atom, L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 each represent a divalent aliphatic organic group, M represents an oxygen or nitrogen atom, A represents a polyvalent linking group, a, b, and c each are an integer of 0 to 4, x and y each are a real number of 0 to 20, l is 1 or 2, and m is an integer of 2 to 4.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material comprising a photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer that contains an acylacetamide yellow dye-forming coupler whose acyl group is represented by formula (I) and a high-boiling organic solvent, wherein the weight ratio of the high-boiling solvent to the coupler contained in said layer is 0.3 or below. ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, Q represents a group of nonmetallic atoms required to form together with C a 3- to 5-membered hydrocarbon ring or a 3- to 5-membered heterocyclic ring that contains a hetero atom selected from the group consisting of N, O, S, and P, provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and it does not bond to Q to form a ring.

Abstract: A dispersion of a photographic additive in a hydrophilic colloid having improved stability against the formation of crystals by incorporated into the oil phase of the dispersion prior to mixing, less than 2 percent by weight, based on the weight of the oil phase, of a compound having the formula ##STR1## wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 are independently selected from alkyl including linear, branched or in substituted alkyl having from 1 to 25 carbon atoms, the substituents being aryl, halo, cyano; aryl, including substituted aryl, the substituents being alkyl or halo; wherein addition to the above, R may also be a siloxane or polysiloxane to give a branched molecule; and in addition to the above, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 may also be alkoxy and m and n have values from 0 to 5000.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having photosensitive layers and non-photosensitive layers adjacent to photosensitive layers on a base, which comprises a yellow dye-forming coupler selected from a group consisting of couplers represented by formulas (I), (II), and (III) and a compound represented by the following formula (IV): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a monovalent group, Q represents a group of non-metallic atoms required to form together with the C a cyclic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group that has a heteroatom of N, S, O, or P, and Y.sub.R represents a residue remaining after removing the acyl group ##STR2## from the coupler represented by formula (I), provided that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and does not bond to Q to form a ring, ##STR3## wherein X.sup.1, and X.sup.2 each represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, X.sup.

Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided which is excellent in color reproduction and color image fastness, and shows only small variations in gradation due to fluctuaion in treatment conditions such as treatment composition, time, and temperature. The present silver halide color photographic material has a pyrazoloazole coupler and silver halide grains consisting of regular crystals with a twin content of 5% or less, said silver halide grains being represented by the formula:AgCl.sub.x Br.sub.y I.sub.l-x-ywherein x and y satisfy the relationships 0.ltoreq.x<1, 0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.1, and 0.ltoreq.l-x-y.ltoreq.0.02.In preferred embodiments of the present invention, said pyrazoloazole coupler is represented by the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.

Abstract: The invention relates to a melt for the coating of a layer in a photographic element and which contains water, gelatin and an anionically charged, hydrophobic group containing compound that is (a) water soluble or soluble in a solution of 5 to 20 percent of water miscible organic solvent,said melt being further characterized by containing an amount of an amphiphilic compound which is sufficient to reduce the viscosity of said melt, said compound selected from the class consisting of:Type A: Sugar (saccharidic) compounds, characterized by having one to three hydrophobic groups, each group containing from about 6 to about 22 carbon atoms, and having one or more attached hydrophilic mono- or oligosaccharidic hydrophilic chains that may or may not be terminated by a negatively charged group such as a sulfate, sulfonate or a carboxyl group; andType B: Compounds compromising a hydrophobic group having from about 6 to about 22 carbon atoms and having one or two attached hydrophilic chains comprising at least 4 oxyet

Abstract: Photographic coupler compositions comprise (a) a pyrazolone magenta dye-forming coupler compound, and (b) a sulfoxide compound in an amount sufficient to reduce continued coupling of the coupler compound during the bleach step of a color photographic process. The sulfoxide compound is of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are individually selected from the group consisting of straight and branched chain alkyl groups, alkenyl groups and alkylene groups; straight and branched chain alkyl groups, alkenyl groups and alkylene groups containing at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of alkoxy, aryloxy, aryl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, carbonamido and carbamoyl groups and halogen atoms; a phenyl group; and a phenyl group containing at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, aryl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, acyloxy, carbonamido and carbamoyl groups and halogen atoms. Additionally, R.sub.1 and R.sub.