Abstract: A material for a color diffusion transfer photographic process, which possesses neutralizing means comprising the combination of a layer containing a polymer having a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic hydrocarbon residue having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aryl group, and X represents an n+1 valent aliphatic hydrocarbon residue having 2 to 8 carbon atoms or an n+1 valent residue of the formula --A-O--.sub.m A, wherein A represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon residue having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and m and n each represents an integer of 1 to 5, and an acidic polymer layer.

Abstract: Color photographic elements, diffusion transfer film units and processes are described which employ nondiffusible o-sulfonamidonaphthols which are alkali-cleavable upon oxidation to release a diffusible color-providing moiety.

Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material, which comprises a transparent support having thereon at least one emulsion layer unit containing the following three layers and capable of simultaneously providing, as a result of exposure and development, both a diffusible dye with a positive image distribution and a non-diffusible dye with a negative image distribution:1. a hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a ballasted coupler capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent to form a diffusible dye, and a spontaneously developable, slightly soluble silver salt dispersion,2. a first negative type light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer provided adjacent the colloidal layer (1) and containing a ballasted compound capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent to release a diffusible development inhibitor inhibiting the development of the silver salt in the above-described colloidal layer (1), and3.

Abstract: Certain 4-hydroxypyrazoles are employed as silver halide developing agents which find particular utility in diffusion transfer photographic processes.

Abstract: Alkanes containing an intralinear sulfonyl group and an intralinear sulfinyl group separated by a single carbon substituted with at least one hydrogen atom are employed as silver halide solvents in photographic processes and compositions.

Abstract: Alkanes containing an intralinear sulfonyl group and a (dialkylamino)oxosulfonium group separated by -CH- are employed as silver halide solvents in photographic processes and compositions.

Abstract: The use of a 4-thiohydantoine in combination with an image-wise exposed diffusion transfer element comprising a negative silver halide emulsion layer and an associated physical development layer containing cadmium sulfide nuclei and an associated initially immobile dye-providing substance provides improved diffusion transfer dye images.

Abstract: The use of a soluble, reducible silver salt in combination with an imagewise exposed diffusion transfer photographic element comprising a negative silver halide emulsion and an associated physical development nuclei layer provides a resultant photographic image having intensified maximum density areas with little or no effect on minimum density areas.

Abstract: A process for the formation of phthalocyanine dye images employing palladium nuclei to catalyze the reduction of a leucophthalocyanine to the phthalocyanine dye image by a reducing agent.

Abstract: A color photographic material having a silver halide emulsion layer and containing a thioether compound which is reactable on chromogenic development thereby releasing a diffusible substance which inhibits the development of the silver halide.The thioether compound is a homophthalimide containing a removable mercapto group containing moiety in the 4-position and its nitrogen in the 2-position atom being a tertiary nitrogen.

Abstract: Alkanes containing an intralinear sulfonyl group and an intralinear 1-piperazinylsulfonamido group separated by a single carbon substituted with at least one hydrogen atom are employed as silver halide solvents in photographic processes and compositions.

Abstract: As quick-acting hardeners for protein-containing photographic layers, which do not adversely affect the sensitizers and color couplers in the photographic materials, carbodiimide compounds containing sulphobetaine groups are used.

Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed comprised of a support and at least one layer containing a photographic imaging dye or its precursor. The imaging dye is chosen to have an absorption peak below 590 nm. An azomethine dye having an absorption peak above 700 nm is associated with the imaging dye or its precursor within the photographic layer. The azomethine dye reduces the rate of fading of the imaging dye upon exposure to visible light. A process for stabilizing a photographic dye image is also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for the formation of formazan dye images employing nuclei of metals from Groups VIIIB and/or IB of the periodic table to catalyze the reduction of tetrazolium salts to the corresponding formazan dye by a reducing agent.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds as represented in the following formula ##STR1## wherein R and R' each are hydrogen or alkyl, Y is .dbd.O or .dbd.NH and n is a positive integer from 1 to 7.In another embodiment, the present invention is directed to the use of the above-denoted class of heterocyclic compounds as photographic silver halide developing agents and to photographic processes, products and compositions employing the same.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic emulsion containing at least one sensitizing dye of the following general formula (I) and at least one sensitizing dye of general formulae (II) and/or (III), in an amount effective to achieve supersensitization: ##STR1## wherein V.sup.1 and V.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, trifluoromethyl, cyano, carboxy, alkoxycarbonyl, aminosulfonyl or alkylsulfonyl; W.sup.1 and W.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxy, acyloxy or phenyl; R.sup.1 represents alkyl or substituted alkyl; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, which may be the same or different, each represents alkyl or substituted alkyl, and at least one of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 represents 1 or 0; substituted alkyl containing a carboxy or sulfo radical; R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, each has the same meanings as R.sup.1 ; X.sup.- represents an acid anion; and m represents ##STR2## wherein V.

Abstract: Integral negative-positive diffusion transfer reflection prints are provided with a non-planar, e.g., lenticular, surface through which the transfer image is viewed.

Abstract: An image-receiving element for color diffusion transfer photography for use with a photographic element containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer having incorporated therein a dye image forming material that is soluble in alkaline solution and becomes diffusible upon development of the silver halide emulsion layer with an alkaline processing solution, and to which the dye image forming material is imagewise transferred when the alkaline processing solution is spread between the image-receiving element and the photographic element; in which the image-receiving element comprises a support having at least one hydrophilic colloid layer thereon, at least one layer of the image-receiving element containing an alkaline solution-soluble hydrophilic synthetic polymer and a polymethylol compound.

Abstract: Lipophilic non-diffusing color formers yielding diffusing dyes are employed in color transfer systems to provide improved diffusion and better quality of color. The color formers are two-equivalent couplers having in the coupling position acyloxy, or sulfonyloxy groups which complete a lactone or sultone ring, respectively, and are stable to hydrolysis under alkaline development conditions. Color-providing material is created by a reaction which opens the lactone or sultone intramolecular ring after the non-diffusing color former reacts with the oxidized color developer molecule. Examples are given of intramolecular 2-equivalent couplers which react with the developer to give yellow, magenta and cyan dyes. The 2-equivalent color formers are unique since they have an intramolecular lactone or sultone ring which opens under oxidative coupling conditions to yield the diffusible yellow, magenta and cyan dyes.

Abstract: A color diffusion transfer photographic material which comprises: (a) a light-sensitive element containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer having a dye image-providing material associated therewith; (b) an image-receiving element capable of imagewise fixing the dye image-providing material as a result of exposure and development of the silver halide emulsion layer; and (c) a processing composition capable of causing development of the silver halide emulsion layer and containing a mercapto compound having a molecular weight of about 230 or higher; with at least one of the light-sensitive element, the image-receiving element and the processing composition containing a developing agent for the silver halide.

Abstract: A radiation-sensitive composition is disclosed including silver halide grains capable of forming an internal latent image and an acylhydrazinophenylthiourea nucleating agent. This composition can be used as a coating on a support to form a photographic element.

Abstract: Improved dye densities are obtained in color image transfer assemblages employing internal image emulsions, ballasted redox dye releasers and an alkaline processing composition containing a saturated, aliphatic or alicyclic glycol having from 3 to 10 carbon atoms or a saturated, aliphatic or alicyclic amino alcohol having from 2 to 10 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A diffusible-dye releasing type dye consisting of a radical which reacts with an oxidation product of a color developing principal agent in a color development process to yield a substantially colorless compound and a dye residue carrying water-soluble radicals. Its photographic uses are also disclosed.

Abstract: A neutralizing layer containing particulate diatomaceous earth, exploded volcanic rock or hydrous calcium silicate is described for use in color diffusion transfer film units, dye image-receiving elements and cover sheets.

Abstract: Timing layer for color diffusion transfer assemblages comprises a mixture of cellulose acetate and a maleic anhydride copolymer with 2 to 20% by weight of the mixture being said copolymer.

Abstract: Improvements in the physical characteristics of a photographic assemblage, especially an integral transfer element, are obtained by employing an alkali metal salt in the alkaline processing composition used to process the assemblage. The anion of the salt has a solubility in relation to that of sulfate such that after processing in the presence of calcium and sulfate ions, calcium will combine with said anion in preference to sulfate at any given pH. Especially preferred salts are alkali metal fluorides or oxalates.

Abstract: A photothermographic element and composition for providing a dye image comprises (a) photographic silver halide in association with (b) an oxidation-reduction image-forming combination comprising (i) a silver salt oxidizing agent, with (ii) an organic reducing agent, (c) a polymeric binder for the element or composition and (d) a leuco-base dye which is oxidizable to form a dye image. After imagewise exposure of a photothermographic element or composition containing the described combination, a color image can be developed by overall heating the photothermographic element. Negative or positive dye images can be provided. The dye image can be transferred to an image receiver.

Abstract: The present invention relates to photography and, more particularly, to diffusion transfer process photographic film units which comprise a photosensitive element adapted to provide, by diffusion transfer photographic processing, selective dyde image recordation of incident actinic radiation as a function of the point-to-point degree of photosensitive element exposure, which film unit includes a plurality of essential layers including a photosensitive silver halide layer having associated therewith dye image-forming material which is diffusible during processing as a function of the point-to-point degree of silver halide layer exposure to incident actinic radiation and a layer adapted to receive image-forming material diffusing thereto; means for applying an aqueous composition therebetween, said composition comprising 0.1-10%, by weight, of a viscosity increasing polymer comprising carboxymethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose. Optionally, said composition also includes titanium dioxide in a ratio of 1 to 10 g.

Abstract: In a photothermographic element, composition or process for producing developed images employing processing with heat, a combination comprising (a) photographic silver halide in association with (b) an oxidation-reduction image-forming combination comprising (i) a silver salt oxidizing agent and (ii) a reducing agent which is a 2,6-dichloro or 2,6-dibromo-4-sulfonamidophenol such as the corresponding benzenesulfonamidophenol, and (c) a four equivalent color-forming coupler, and (d) a polymeric binder, provides an image in color. After imagewise exposure of the photothermographic element or composition, a color image can be developed by heating the photothermographic element or composition containing this combination. The combination can be in a diffusion transfer, photothermographic element.

Abstract: A color photographic light-sensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least one emulsion layer unit comprising;A. a hydrophilic colloid layer containing spontaneously developable silver halide grains which are associated with a coupler capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amino color developing agent to provide a dye and which are rendered substantially light-insensitive with a desensitizer, andB. an adjacent negative type light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer associated with a compound capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amino color developer to release a diffusible development inhibitor.

Abstract: A yellow dye developer having improved photographic properties represented by the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein X represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an acylamino group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; Z represents an atomic group necessary for completing a furan ring or a benzofuran ring; Y represents a hydroxyl group, an acyloxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an alkoxyacyloxy group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; Ar represents an aromatic ring; R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an acyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 represents a hydroxyl group, an acyloxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an alkoxyacyloxy group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms with the R.sub.2 group being at the ortho-position to the azo group; m and n each is an integer of 1 to 4; and at least one of X, Z, Ar and R.sub.

Abstract: Cyan azo dye-providing compounds having the formula ##STR1## wherein Car represents a carrier moiety which, as a function of oxidation under alkaline conditions, releases a diffusible dye from said compound;X represents a bivalent linking group;R represents hydrogen or alkyl;J represents sulfonyl or carbonyl;M and q each represent an integer having a value of 0 or 1;Q represents hydroxy or acylamino;G represents a hydroxy radical, a salt thereof, or a hydrolyzable acyloxy group;D represents halogen, cyano, nitro, trifluoromethyl, alkyl, alkoxy, carboxy, a carboxylic acid ester, fluorosulfonyl, trifluoromethylsulfonyl, --SO.sub.3 --phenyl radical, sulfo, a sulfamoyl radical, a carbamoyl radical, an alkyl- or alkylsulfonyl radical, or a phenylsulfonyl radical;E represents hydrogen, halogen, nitro, cyano, or trifluoromethyl; andM represents sulfo, cyano, fluorosulfonyl, halogen, a -SO.sub.

Abstract: Coating a solution comprising a hydrophilic colloid and ammonia over a receiving layer comprising polyvinylpyridine in an image-receiving element of a photographic film unit significantly reduces haze and facilitates the separation of the image-receiving element from the remainder of the film unit subsequent to diffusion transfer processing.

Abstract: Photographic elements are disclosed which contain a blocked development restrainer which is designed to provide timely release of a development restrainer when the photographic element is processed with an alkaline processing composition. The photographic elements are especially useful in image-transfer film units where the blocked development restrainers will permit initial development to occur and, upon cleavage, will substantially restrain further development.

Abstract: Timing layer for color diffusion transfer assemblages comprises a mixture of cellulose acetate and a maleic anhydride copolymer with 2 to 20% by weight of the mixture being said copolymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to photography and, more particularly, to diffusion transfer process photographic film units which comprise a photosensitive element adapted to provide, by diffusion transfer photographic processing, selective dye image recordation of incident actinic radiation as a function of the point-to-point degree of photosensitive element exposure, which film unit includes a plurality of photosensitive units each exhibiting a predetermined gamma of substantially the same value and within a range of 1.1 to 1.

Abstract: An improvement is provided in processes wherein an oxidation-reduction reaction is utilized to form an image. In one aspect of this invention, the improvement comprises employing an oxidizing agent and a reducing agent which undergo imagewise redox reaction in the presence of catalytic material, the oxidizing agent and the reducing agent being so chosen that the reaction products are noncatalytic for the oxidation-reduction reaction. In another aspect of this invention, a substitution inert metal complex is utilized as the oxidant in oxidation-reduction image-forming processes. In a specific aspect, image-transfer film units and processes of forming image records in image-transfer film units are disclosed wherein an inert transition metal complex and a reducing agent, which undergo redox reaction in the presence of a catalytic material, are present during processing of said film unit.

Abstract: This invention relates to a class of indicator dyes useful as optical filter agents in photographic processes to protect a selectively exposed photosensitive material from further exposure during processing in the presence of incident light. Such dyes comprise 3,3-disubstituted phthalides and 3,3-disubstituted naphthalides wherein one of the 3,3-substituents is an indol-3-yl radical substituted with hydrogen on the heterocyclic N atom and the other of said 3,3 substituents is a p-hydroxycarbocyclic aryl radical selected from a 4'-hydroxy-1'-phenyl radical and a 4'-hydroxy-1'-naphthyl radical.

Abstract: A dye developer for silver halide photography comprising both a dye moiety represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a halogen atom or an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms; k is an integer of from 0 to 4; A represents an acyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an alkoxyacyl group containing from 2 to 4 carbon atoms; Ar represents an aromatic nucleus; X represents a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an acyl group or an acyloxy group, each containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms and l is an integer of from 0 to 4; and a polyhydric phenol moiety having silver halide developing activity.

Abstract: Heterocyclic N-oxides are useful as oxidants in photographic elements or film units.

Abstract: This invention relates to photographic film structures for forming color transfer images viewable by reflected light without separation of the photosensitive and image-receiving components and to diffusion transfer processes employing these unitary film units wherein a dye is initially positioned in the image-receiving component to offset the color stain that tends to form in the highlights of the transfer image during aging. Any dye or mixture of dyes may be employed which are capable of absorbing visible light in a wavelength range complementary to the wavelength range absorbed by the color stain and are used in a concentration such that the highlights, i.e., D.sub.min areas of the transfer image, appear substantially white after aging, as observed by the eye. In a preferred embodiment, the dye employed is a dye developer.

Abstract: A dye developer represented by the following general formula (I), ##SPC1##wherein X is a hydrogen atom, a bromine atom, a nitro group, an acylamino group, a hydroxyl group or an alkyl group having not more than 4 carbon atoms; n is 1, 2 or 3; Y is an acyl group having not more than 4 carbon atoms; and Ar is a mono- or polyaryl group; and wherein an aromatic ring can be condensed in the 4-and 5-positions of the furan ring nucleus, and at least one of X, the aromatic ring condensed with the furan ring nucleus and Ar being directly connected to or being connected through an atom or an atomic grouping to a polyphenol having developing activity for silver halide.

Abstract: A diffusion transfer color photographic film unit, (a) which contains:1. a light-sensitive element comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye image-forming material which, as a result of development, forms an imagewise distribution of a dye image-forming material capable of diffusing through a processing solution;2. an image-receiving element comprising a transparent support having thereon an image-receiving layer for receiving the dye image-forming material upon diffusion;3. a light-intercepting element having substantially the same area as the image-receiving element and being capable of protecting an emulsion layer or layers from external light during processing of the film unit in a bright place out of a camera;4.

Abstract: A photographic film assembly, which contains a plurality of light-sensitive sheets stacked in a planar parallel relationship between the front wall of a film container having a rectangular opening for exposure and a pressure plate in a planar parallel relationship with the front wall, each of the light-sensitive sheets comprising a transparent support having thereon, in sequence, at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer and an light-intercepting layer of a hydrophilic colloid containing a light absorbent in an amount necessary for preventing, upon exposure, a next light-sensitive sheet lying behind in the direction of exposure from being fogged, and each of the light-sensitive sheets being retained in the container with the support being directed toward the exposure opening.

Abstract: This invention relates to light sensitive compositions comprising a photosensitizer and a substrate useful in preparing photographic images.

Abstract: The color speeds of a multicolor photosensitive element are balanced during the manufacture thereof by continuously introducing into said element optical filter means adapted to modulate the photographic color speed of at least one of the selectively sensitized silver halide emulsions relative to the other(s), and then adjusting the density of said optical filter means during coating to an amount sufficient to obtain the desired color balance.

Abstract: An image-receiving element for use in a color diffusion transfer process which comprises a support having thereon an image-receiving layer containing a mordanting polymer having therein a repeating structural unit represented by the following General Formula (I); ##EQU1## wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 is an alkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group or an aralkyl group, and each of R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 and R.sub.2 and R.sub.4 can combine to form an alkylene group; A is an alkylene group, an arylene group or a group of the formula ##SPC1##In which m and n each represents 0 or an integer of at least 1, with at least one of m and n being an integer of at least 1; and X.sup.- and Y.sup.- each represents a monovalent anion, and a method for forming a color image in the color diffusion transfer process comprising spreading an alkaline processing solution between an exposed silver halide photosensitive element and the image-receiving element above described.

Abstract: In a photothermographic element, composition or process for producing developed images employing processing with heat, a combination comprising (a) photographic silver halide in association with (b) a silver salt of a long-chain fatty acid and (c) a phenolic leuco dye reducing agent for the silver salt of a long-chain fatty acid provides an image in color. After imagewise exposure of the photothermographic element or composition, a color image can be obtained by heating the photothermographic element or composition containing this combination. This combination can be in a diffusion transfer, photothermographic element.

Abstract: A color photographic diffusion transfer process in which a color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer and a layer adjacent to said silver halide emulsion layer, said layer containing a dye developer, is image-wise exposed, brought into superposed position with an image-receiving element, and then treated with an alkaline processing solution to immobilize the dye developer at the exposed portions of the silver halide emulsion layer and diffusion-transfer the dye developer at the nonexposed portions of the silver halide emulsion layer to the image-receiving element, with the alkali processing being conducted in the presence of 6,6',7,7' -tetrahydroxy-4,4,4',4'-tetramethyl-bis-2,2'-.Iadd.spirochroman. .Iaddend..[.spirocumarone.].

Abstract: a photographic element is disclosed which includes a support having as a coating thereon a radiation-sensitive layer capable of selectively releasing protons in exposed areas. In direct contact with the radiation-sensitive layer is an image-forming dye capable of shifting between a mobile and an immobile form in an aqueous medium upon protonation of a carboxy or amine substituent. The portion of the dye remaining mobile after imagewise protonation can be transferred to a receiver sheet to form a viewable dye image.