Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which contains an emulsion in which the silver iodide surface content of the silver halide grains is less than the average silver iodide content of the grains. The material also contains a compound capable of releasing two photographically useful groups through at least one timing group and/or a compound capable of releasing a photographically useful group through two timing groups.

Abstract: An image forming method comprises the steps of (a) exposing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a first support and provided thereon, a photographic component layer comprising a first binder, light sensitive silver halide and a sparingly water soluble metal compound; (b) superposing the exposed material on an image receiving material comprising a second support and provided thereon, an image receiving layer comprising a second binder and a compound represented by Formula (I), ##STR1## wherein A represents a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic ring; and M.sub.1 and M.sub.2 independently represent an alkali metal atom, an ammonium ion or a quaternary ammonium ion; (c) heating the superposed materials in the presence of water; and (d) separating the image receiving material from the exposed material to obtain an image on the image receiving layer of the image receiving material.

Abstract: A multilayered color photographic element contains a support having coated thereon photographic silver halide emulsion layers including at least three layers each having the same spectral sensitivity but having, respectively, the most, mid, and least light sensitivity wherein the most and mid sensitive layers are contiguous and the most sensitive layer is extremely starved of image dye-forming coupler.

Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive material containing a compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein variables in the above formula (I) are defined in the specification. The silver halide light-sensitive material has a small fluctuation in sensitivity even when the processing temperature changes and has an improved color reproduction and an excellent discrimination and can achieve low Dmin and high Dmax.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support containing light-sensitive silver halide grains which have been chemically sensitized by at least one of a selenium sensitizer, a gold sensitizer and a sulfur sensitizer and at least one of the layers of the material contains a compound represented by the following formula (I) and/or a compound represented by the following formula (II) in which A is a coupler residue or a redox group, L.sub.1 and L.sub.3 are divalent timing groups, L.sub.2 is a timing group with a valency of 3 or more, PUG is a photographically useful group, j and n are integers, each of 0 to 2, m is 1 or 2, s is 2 or a greater integer obtained by subtracting 1 from the valence of L.sub.2, L.sub.4 is --OCO-- group, and L.sub.5 is a group which releases PUG by electron transfer along a conjugated system.Formula (I)A'--(L.sub.1).sub.j --(L.sub.2).sub.m --[(L.sub.3).sub.n --PUG].sub.8Formula (II)A--L.

Abstract: The improved silver halide photographic material has one or more silver halide emulsion layers on a support and at least one of said emulsion layers contains silver halide grains which are of normal crystal form having at least one concave crystal face. This photographic material has not only high sensitivity but also good keeping quality.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for developing an image in a photographic element comprising a support, a silver halide emulsion containing an imagewise distribution of developable silver halide grains, and a blocked photographically useful compound comprising a photographically useful group and a blocking group capable of releasing the photographically useful group upon processing the photographic element in the presence of a peroxide, wherein the blocking group comprises an electrophilic group which is solely capable of undergoing a nucleophilic displacement reaction, the electrophilic group being bonded directly or through a releasable timing group to the photographically useful group, with the proviso that when the photographically useful group is a development inhibitor, the blocking group is bonded to the photographically useful group through at least one releasable timing group. The method comprises the step of contacting the photographic element with a processing solution comprising a peroxide.

Abstract: There are described reversal photographic elements containing magenta dye-forming couplers that yield dye images that particularly lend themselves to retouching. The photographic element comprises a pyrazoloazole magenta dye forming coupler having a cleavable ballast group joined to the remainder of the molecule by one or two electrophilic cleavage groups which can be removed with a specialized processing composition after reversal processing.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material which comprises a support having thereon at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a pyrazoloazole based magenta coupler, and a coupler which contains a plurality of photographically useful groups or precursors thereof. The photograhically useful groups or precursors thereof are capable of being released when the coupler undergoes a coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agnet.

Abstract: Photographic elements comprising certain 2-phenylcarbamoyl-1-naphthol image-modifying couplers exhibit proper hue, a resistance to dye crystallization, and a resistance to leuco cyan dye formation. Such couplers can be utilized for their image-modifying effect and can contribute substantially to the overall dye density of an image.

Abstract: A light-sensitive material having at least one emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, wherein tabular grains having an average aspect ratio of 2 or more occupy at least 50% of the total projected area of all grains, and the material contains a compound which releases two photographically useful groups from one molecule through a timing group and/or a compound which releases a photographically useful group through two timing groups.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one layer containing a hydrazide compound represented by the following formula (1) ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aromatic heterocyclic group and (PA) represents a pyrazoloazole coupler residue or an indazolone coupler residue.

Abstract: A photographic element comprises at least three light sensitive silver halide layers spectrally sensitized to the same region of the electromagnetic spectrum wherein the least sensitive such layer, or a nonsensitive layer adjacent thereto, comprises a compound which contains a releasable thiol fragment or a precursor thereof wherein:A. the amount of the thiol-containing compound or precursor contained in such layers is both sufficient to increase the extent of silver bleaching during bleaching and is greater than the amount contained in any of the more sensitive layers of the same sensitivity; andB. the thiol fragment contains a sulfur atom which is not directly bonded to an aromatic atom and contains a water-solubilizing group.

Abstract: The invention provides a black and white photographic element comprising a support having situated thereon at least one silver halide emulsion, the element containing a release compound that provides a non-imagewise distribution of a photographically active moiety, wherein the release compound has the structure ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an electron withdrawing moiety;m is 0, 1, 2 or 3;R.sup.2 is a group containing an aqueous solubilizing group;q is 1 or 2;TIME is a timing group;n is 0, 1, 2 or 3; andPAM is a photographically active moiety.Also provided is a method of preparing a photographic emulsion comprising precipitating silver halide grains in a colloidal medium, washing the grains, sensitizing the grains by adding dyes, chemical sensitizers and heating, and adding to the emulsion a methanolic solution comprising a release compound as described above.

Abstract: A photothermographic element comprising a support bearing at least one heat-developable, photosensitive, image-forming photothermographic emulsion layer comprising:(a) a photosensitive silver halide;(b) a non-photosensitive, reducible source of silver;(c) a chromogenic leuco dye reducing agent; and(d) a binder;wherein the chromogenic leuco dye reducing agent is a chromogenic leuco redox-dye-releasing compound of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein: (i) Cp is a coupler group;(ii) N--D is a photographic developer group; and(iii) R.sup.1 is a --C(O)--NH--A--Dye group wherein Dye represents the chromophore of a thermally mobile dye; and A represents a single bond or a divalent linking group of the formula --X--R.sup.5 --L--, wherein R.sup.5 is a divalent hydrocarbon chain containing up to 12 carbon atoms, L is a single bond or a divalent group that binds the chromophore of the thermally mobile dye to R.sup.5, and X represents a single bond or an --SO.sub.2 -- group.

Abstract: A photothermographic element containing a support bearing at least one heat-developable, photosensitive, image-forming photothermographic emulsion layer is provided. The emulsion layer comprises:(a) a photosensitive silver halide;(b) a non-photosensitive, reducible source of silver;(c) a leuco dye reducing agent; and(d) a binder;wherein the leuco dye reducing agent comprises a blocked leuco dye compound of the general formula L-R.sup.1, which is capable of being oxidized to a colored form, wherein:(i) L is a group remaining after removal of a hydrogen from a leuco dye; and(ii) R.sup.1 is a C(O)--NH--SO.sub.2 --R.sup.5 group wherein R.sup.5 is an aliphatic group or an aromatic group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multilayer color photographic element comprising a support having coated thereon photographic silver halide emulsion layers, the layers including blue sensitive, green sensitive and red sensitive layers, the photographic element comprising at least one of a bleach accelerating releasing coupler and a bleach accelerating silver salt in at least one layer of the photographic element and a layer containing finely divided silver. An interlayer is disposed between the layer containing finely divided silver and a layer containing dye forming coupler.

Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising a substrate bearing a photographic silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a high dye-yield coupler having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: COUP is a photographic coupler residue capable of coupling with oxidized color developer to form a first dye;T is a timing group;m is an integer from 0 to 2;L is a linking group selected from the group consisting of --OC(.dbd.O)--, --OC(.dbd.S)--, --SC(.dbd.O)--, --SC(.dbd.S)--, and --OC(.dbd.NSO.sub.2 R) where R is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl; andDYE is a releasable second dye or dye precursor having a particular formula including a methine dye chromophore.

Abstract: Photographic elements are described which contain a release compound that during photographic processing provides an imagewise distribution of a nucleophile which can react with a uniform distribution of a blocked dye moiety contained in the element to release an unblocked dye.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having on a support at least one silver halide emulsion layer, which contains at least one precursor of the kind which releases at least two groups selected from the group consisting of a photographically useful group and a precursor thereof via a timing group, wherein plural photographically useful groups or precursors thereof are present on different constituent atoms of said timing group, provided that when the plural photographically useful groups have different functions, the timing group is a group which does not utilize an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction.

Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a photographic silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a high dye-yield coupler having the formula:COUP--(T).sub.m --L--DYEwhere COUP is the parent group of the coupler capable of reacting at the coupling position with oxidized color developer to form a first dye, T is one or more timing groups with m=1 or 2, L is a linking group selected from the group consisting of --OC(O)--, --OC(S)--, --SC(O)--, --SC(S)--, or --OC(.dbd.N SO.sub.2 R)--, where R is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl, and DYE is a second dye or precursor thereof, wherein there is present at least one T group that contains a substituent having the formula:--(LINK).sub.p --A--B--(C--D).sub.nwherein:LINK is an alkylene group capable of linking the above group to the group T, where p=0 or 1;A is a member selected from the group consisting of --NHCO--, --N(R')C(O)N(R--)--, --CONH--, --NR'SO.sub.2 --, --SO.sub.2 NR'--, and --OPO.sub.

Abstract: Unique imagewise exposed and developed originating color silver halide photographic elements can be processed with bleaching and/or fixing solutions. The element is characterized by several important features. It contains a silver halide grain population of at least 50 mole percent chloride, based on total silver forming the grain population projected area, wherein at least 50 percent of total grain projected area is accounted for by intrinsically stable tabular grains (1) bounded by {100} major faces having adjacent edge ratios of less than 10, and (2) an aspect ratio of at least 2. Also, at least 50 mole % of the element silver halide is silver chloride, and no more than 2 mole % silver iodide. It also contains a bleach accelerator releasing compound. The element is also free of a desilvering rate retarding amount of a development inhibitor releasing compound having a free sulfur valence which binds to silver.

Abstract: A thermal-dye-bleach construction comprising a dye in association with a thermal dye-bleaching agent of general formula I: ##STR1## wherein: each of R.sup.a and R.sup.b are individually selected from: hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, and a heterocyclic group, and preferably, both R.sup.a and R.sup.b represent hydrogen;p is one or two, and when p is one, Z is a monovalent group selected from: an akyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, and a heterocyclic group, and when p is two, Z is a divalent group selected from: an alkylene group, an arylene group, an alkenylene group, an alkynylene group, an aralkylene group, a cycloalkene group, and a heterocyclic group; and,M.sup.+ is a cation which will not react with a carbanion generated from the thermal-carbanion-generating agent in such manner as to render the carbanion ineffective as a bleaching agent for the dye.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the light-sensitive material contains a yellow colored cyan coupler and an acylacetamide yellow dye forming coupler having an acyl moiety represented by the general formula (A): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a univalent group, Q represents a group of non-metal atoms required to form, together with C, a three to five membered hydrocarbon ring or a three to five membered heterocyclic ring which has within the ring at least one hetero atom selected from among N, O, S and P, with the proviso that R.sub.1 is not a hydrogen atom and it does not join with Q to form a ring.

Abstract: A polymeric material is provided comprising a blocked photographically useful group (PUG). The incorporated blocked photographically useful group includes a PUG and a blocking group that is capable of releasing the PUG upon processing the photographic element, wherein the blocking group(a) is capable of reacting with a dinucleophile reagent, and(b) comprises two electrophilic groups that are separated from each other by a substituted atom that enables a nucleophilic displacement reaction to occur with release of PUG upon processing the photographic element in the presence of a dinucleophile reagent, wherein the group that is less electrophilic is bonded directly or through at least one releasable timing group to the PUG.Photographic elements and emulsions including the inventive polymers, and processes for developing an image in the elements, are also provided.

Abstract: A multilayered color photographic element contains a support having coated thereon photographic silver halide emulsion layers including at least one blue-sensitive and at least three red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, said red-sensitive layers respectively being most, mid, and least red-sensitive relative to each other, said most and mid red-sensitive layers being contiguous, and the most red-sensitive layer being a coupler starved layer, which element comprises:(a) a yellow image dye-forming coupler and substantially no development inhibitor releasing coupler in the most red-sensitive layer; and(b) at least one development inhibitor releasing coupler in the mid red-sensitive layer.

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: A color photographic element is disclosed comprising a support bearing at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer, an image dye-forming coupler, and a coupler (A) capable of forming a compound that is washed out of the photographic element upon processing and capable of releasing a bleach accelerator group, wherein the coupler (A) is represented by the formula:(SOL).sub.x --COUP--(R.sup.1).sub.y --(R.sup.2).sub.

Abstract: A color photographic element having a support bearing at least one radiation sensitive emulsion layer comprising dispersing medium and silver halide grains is disclosed. The emulsion layer is a tabular grain silver halide emulsion layer Wherein at least 50 percent of total grain projected area is accounted for by tabular grains (a) bounded by {100} major faces having adjacent edge ratios of less than 10, (b) each having an aspect ratio of at least 2, and (c) internally at their nucleation site, containing iodide and at least 50 mole percent chloride. The emulsion layer has in reactive association an image dye-forming compound and a compound that contains a photographically useful group and is capable of reacting with oxidized developing agent to thereby release such group. A process for preparing the radiation sensitive tabular grain silver halide emulsions is also described.

Abstract: Photographic elements are described which contain a release compound that during photographic processing provides an imagewise distribution of a photographically inert compound which can react with a uniform distribution of a second compound contained in the element to form a photographically active compound.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for forming an improved dye image in an aqueous-developable photographic dry dye-diffusion transfer element comprising the steps of:providing an aqueous-developable chromogenie photographic dry dye-diffusion transfer element comprising radiation sensitive silver halide, an aqueous-developable material containing color coupler wherein said coupler forms or releases a heat-transferable dye upon reaction of said coupler with the oxidation product of a primary amine developing agent, a hydrophilic binder, and a thermal solvent wherein said thermal solvent has the structure I ##STR1## wherein (a) Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2, Z.sub.3, Z.sub.4, and Z.sub.5 are substituents, the Hammer sigma parameters of Z.sub.2, Z.sub.3, and Z.sub.4 sum to give a total, .SIGMA., of at least -0.28 and less than 1.

Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer which comprises subjecting the silver halide color photographic material to imagewise exposure and color development, and then processing with a processing solution having bleaching ability, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains silver halide grains having a composition such that tabular silver iodobromide grains having an aspect ratio of not higher than 3 account for at least 50% of the entire projected area of the silver halide grains, and the processing solution having bleaching ability contains as a bleaching agent an iron (III) complex salt of a compound having the described structural formula, used in a concentration of 0.01 to 0.17 mol/liter.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic material comprising on a support photosensitive silver halide particles, and substantially light insensitive silver salt particles having a speed at least a factor 10 less under the same conditions of exposure and development of said photosensitive silver halide particles than said photosensitive silver halide particles and a releasing compound of formula (I) or (II) as specified in the claims capable of image-wise releasing sulphide or a sulphide under conditions for image-wise development of said photosensitive silver halide particles to silver. The present invention further provides a method for obtaining an image and a lithographic printing plate with said photographic material.

Abstract: A novel class of N-substituted triarylmethane sulfonamides is provided which undergo reversible oxidation into colored form and reversible reduction of the oxidized form into colorless form. Preferred embodiments comprise xanthene sulfonamides having N-aryl substituents, e.g., hydroquinone substituents. These compounds possess redox potentials ranging between about +200 to -500 millivolts and thus are useful as dyes for producing photographic, photothermographic, thermal, and pressure-induced images, as well as being useful as redox indicators in a wide variety of biological and chemical reactions.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer formed on a support wherein the light-sensitive material contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A is a coupler residual or an oxidation-reduction group, X.sub.1 is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, X.sub.2 is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or NX.sub.6 group, W is a carbon atom or a sulfur atom, X.sub.3, X.sub.4, X.sub.5 and X.sub.6 are each a hydrogen atom or an organic residual, any two of X.sub.3, X.sub.4 and X.sub.5 can be bivalent groups which form a ring, PUG is a photographically useful group capable of bonding at a hetero-atom and, in the formula (I), n.sub.1 is 1 if W is a carbon atom, and either 1 or 2 if W is a sulfur atom. If n.sub.1 is 2, two X.sub.1 can either be identical or different. On the other hand, n.sub.2 is either 1 or 2. If n.sub.2 is 2, two X.sub.3, two X.sub.4, and two x.sub.5 are either identical or different.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photographic material comprising on a support (i) photosensitive silver halide particles, (ii) substantially light insensitive silver salt particles having a speed at least a factor 10 less than said photosensitive silver halide particles under the same conditions of exposure and development of said photosensitive silver halide particles and (iii) a releasing compound capable of image-wise releasing under the conditions for image-wise development of said photosensitive silver halide to silver a chemical sensitizer, said chemical sensitizer rendering said substantially light insensitive silver salt particles developable. The present invention also provides a method for making an image therewith and a method for making a lithographic printing plate.

Abstract: A thermal-dye-bleach construction comprising a dye in association with a thermal dye-bleaching agent of general formula I: ##STR1## wherein: each of R.sup.a and R.sup.b are individually selected from: hydrogen, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, and a heterocyclic group, and preferably, both R.sup.a and R.sup.b represent hydrogen;p is one or two, and when p is one, Z is a monovalent group selected from: an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group, and a heterocyclic group, and when p is two, Z is a divalent group selected from: an alkylene group, an arylene group, an alkenylene group, an alkynylene group, an aralkylene group, a cycloalkene group, and a heterocyclic group; and,M.sup.+ is cation which will not react with acarbanion generated from the thermal-carbanion-generating agent in such manner as to render the carbanion ineffective as a bleaching agent for the dye.

Abstract: A color photographic element is disclosed comprising a support bearing at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer, an image dye-forming coupler, and a coupler (A) capable of forming a compound that is washed out of the photographic element upon processing and capable of releasing a bleach accelerator group, wherein the coupler (A) is represented by the formula:(SOL).sub.x --COUP--(R.sup.1).sub.y --(R.sup.2).sub.z --BLEACH.

Abstract: Photographic silver halide materials and processes employ at least one coupler having a coupling-off group which includes a carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring which bears a silyl substituent on at least one of its ring carbon atoms and is attached via another of its ring atoms either directly or through a linking group or atom to the coupling position of the coupler. The silyl substituent bears three groups which are independently aromatic groups, heterocyclic groups, aliphatic groups or additional silyl groups bonded through a linking atom to the silicon atom in said silyl substituent.

Abstract: The invention involves a bleachable antihalation system, particularly for use in thermally developable photographic recording materials. This antihalation system contains, besides an antihalation dye, a bleaching agent that forms sulfurous acid or sulfurous acid derivatives on treatment with heat or irradiation with actinic radiation.

Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprising a support bearing at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer and at least one photographic coupler comprising a pyrazolotriazole moiety (PT), the coupler having the formula ##STR1## wherein PT is a pyrazolotriazole moiety.

Abstract: A light-sensitive material having high light-sensitivity and high contrast and excelling in color reproduction at all light-exposed regions, yellow-image sharpness, magenta-image sharpness, and cyan-image sharpness, and having its sensitivity little deteriorated during storage. The material comprises at least one light-sensitive, silver halide emulsion layer on a support, and contains at least one specified compound which releases a photographically useful group, and a yellow-colored cyan coupler.

Abstract: A color photographic element comprises a support bearing at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer, an image dye-forming coupler, and a combination of a development inhibitor releasing coupler and a wash-out coupler, the washout coupler (A)(i) capable of forming a compound that is washed out of the photographic element upon processing and(ii) capable of releasing a bleach accelerator group, and(iii) is represented by the formula:(SOL).sub.x --COUP--(R.sup.1).sub.y --(R.sup.2).sub.z --BLEACHThe development inhibitor releasing coupler is selected from a timed and non-timed development inhibitor releasing coupler.

Abstract: Photothermographic compositions comprising a photographic silver halide, an organic silver salt, and a reducing agent for the organic silver salt, display improved stabilty in the presence of a compound having a nucleus of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: A represents any monovalent group for which the corresponding compound AH functions as a post-processing stabilizer,R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3, are independently hydrogen or methyl and with the proviso that R.sup.1 can represent an aryl group when R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are hydrogen;R.sup.4 is hydrogen or lower alkyl of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms;R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 independently represent hydrogen, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group or R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 taken together with the carbon atom to which they are joined form a ring of 4 to 12 atoms;R.sup.7 and R.sup.8 are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms; andn is 0 or 1.

Abstract: Photothermographic compositions comprising a photographic silver halide, an organic silver salt, and a reducing agent for the organic silver salt, display improved stability in the presence of a compound having a nucleus of the formula:A--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --X--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --Awherein:A represents any monovalent group for which the corresponding compound AH functions as a post-processing stabilizer,X is S, SO, or SO.sub.2, and n is 1 to 10.

Abstract: A combination of a development inhibitor releasing coupler having a particular releasable mercaptotetrazole group; a concentration within the range of 2.5 to 25 mg/m.sup.2, that does not accelerate bleaching of the element upon exposure and processing, of a dye-forming naphtholic or acetanilide coupler comprising a coupling-off group represented by the formula ##STR1## as described in the specification, with a particular alkoxy-benzoyl yellow dye-forming coupler also as described in the specification in a photographic silver halide element and process enables improved dye images upon exposure and processing.

Abstract: There are described photographic elements containing novel release compounds which release a blocked photographically useful group, such as a blocked development inhibitor. The blocking group is removed during processing as a result of reaction with sulfite ion contained in one of the processing baths.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which provides an improved safelight property without adversely affecting the photographic properties of the light-sensitive material. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material contains at least one compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substitutable group; W represents a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom; Z represents --Y.sub.1 --(R.sub.3)n.sub.2 or R.sub.3 in which R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a substitutable group; n.sub.0, n.sub.1 and n.sub.2 each represents 0 or 1; h represents 1 or 2; R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 may combine with each other to form a hydrocarbon ring or a heterocyclic ring; Y.sub.1 represents --CO--, --CO(.dbd.NR.sub.4)--, --C(.dbd.S)--, --C(.dbd.N.sup.+ R.sub.5 R.sub.6)--, --SO--, --SO.sub.2 --, --C(C.dbd.CR.sub.7 R.sub.8)--,--R.sub.6 C.dbd.N--, or --R.sub.6 C.dbd.CR.sub.9 --in [(R.sub.1).sub.n1 --Y.sub.1 ] when n.sub.1 is 1 and in --Y.

Abstract: A light-sensitive material comprises a support and a light-sensitive layer. The light-sensitive layer contains silver halide, a reducing agent, an ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound and a base precursor. According to the present invention, the light-sensitive layer further contains a urethane polymer having an amino or imino group. The urethane polymer is dissolved in the ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable compound. The polymer has a molecular weight of not less than 2,000. The silver halide, the reducing agent, the polymerizable compound, the base precursor and the urethane polymer are preferably contained in light-sensitive microcapsules which are dispersed in the light-sensitive layer.

Abstract: A color photographic recording material is described which comprises a silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler compound capable of releasing a development accelerator or fogging agent and which material also contains silver halide grains which are more developable than the grains in the silver halide emulsion layer.