Abstract: A reversal photographic element comprising at least two dye image-forming units, at least one unit comprising(1) a first silver halide emulsion layer spectrally sensitized to a given region of the spectrum with which is associated a dye image-forming chromogenic coupler and(2) a second silver halide emulsion layer spectrally sensitized to a different region of the spectrum than the first and containing an interimage effect-forming means such as a development inhibitor-releasing coupler, which forms either a colorless compound or a dye which does not substantially take part in the formation of the image.

Abstract: A silver halide color reversal light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one layer of said light-sensitive material comprising (1) an emulsion containing tabular silver halide grains having a diameter/thickness ratio of at least of about 4 and (2) at least one compound represented by the following general formulae (I) to (IV), said tabular silver halide grains being present in amount of at least about 50% of the total projected area of silver halide grains present in the same layer: ##STR1## wherein M.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a cation or a group cleavable in alkaline conditions, and Z represents an atomic group as defined in the specification; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4, which may be the same or different, each represents an alkyl group, an aryl group or an aralkyl group as defined in the specification, X.sup..

Abstract: A process for processing a silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which comprises developing an imagewise exposed silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material with a black-and-white developer containing at least one compound selected from the compounds of Group A, at least one compound selected from the compounds of Group B, and preferably further at least one compound selected from the compounds of Group C, whereinGroup A consists of organic heterocyclic compounds represented by formulae (A-I), (A-II), (A-III), and (A-IV) ##STR1## Group B consists of benzoimidazole, indazole, benzotriazole, benzooxazole and benzothiazole compounds, not containing a thiol group, a thioether bond, a thioketone group, or a disulfide bond.Group C consists of compounds represented by formulae (C-I) and (C-II). ##STR2## wherein the symbols are as defined in the appended claims.

Abstract: A method for processing an imagewise exposed silver halide color reversal photographic material which comprises processing the color reversal photographic material with a black-and-white developer containing at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I-a) or (I-b): ##STR1## wherein M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, or an ammonium ion; R represents a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, a hydroxy group, --SO.sub.3 M.sup.1, or --COOM.sup.1 ; R.sup.1 represents --SO.sub.3 M.sup.1 or --COOM.sup.1, wherein M.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, or an ammonium ion; and n represents an integer of 1 to 6; and wherein n is 2 to 6, each of said Rs may be the same or different.

Abstract: A color reversal photographic light-sensitive material is described having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said emulsion layer and a layer adjacent thereto contains a silver halide emulsion of silver halide grains containing internal fog centers.

Abstract: An improved method of developing silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support is disclosed. In the improvement, said silver halide emulsion layer contains core/shell type silver halide grains having a shell thickness of 25 to 150 .ANG. wherein the surface of the core is subjected to chemical sensitization treatment and the surface of the shell is not subjected to chemical sensitization, and a developing solution contains a solvent for silver halide. It is possible to carry out spectral sensitization without causing a reduction in intrinsic sensitivity and to provide high-speed silver halide light-sensitive materials which are excellent in anti-fading property of latent images and excellent in stabilization with the passage of time using the above-described improved method.

Abstract: A color reversal photographic light-sensitive materials comprising a base having thereon (a) at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a dye forming coupler and (b) a silver halide emulsion layer substantially without light-sensitivity provided adjacent to said light-sensitive layer, or (a) at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a dye forming coupler, (b) a silver halide emulsion layer substantially without light-sensitivity to light, and (c) an intermediate layer therebetween, wherein said intermediate layer or said silver halide emulsion layer substantially without light-sensitivity, or both said intermediate layer and said silver halide emulsion layer substantially without light-sensitivity contain at least one compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms capable of being hydrolyzed with alkali, R.sup.

Abstract: A color reversal light-sensitive material comprising a support having coated thereon at least a pair of silver halide emulsion layers having mutually different color sensitivities and consisting of an emulsion having a high silver/coupler ratio and an emulsion having a low silver/coupler ratio, the former ratio being greater by a factor of at least 5 than the latter ratio, and the latter emulsion being incorporated with a compound containing recurring units represented by the following General Formula (I): ##STR1## the substituents being defined within the specification. By including the compound of the general formula (I) within the particular emulsion layer which is highly susceptible to changes in sensitivity and maximum density, it is possible to prevent deterioration in color balance which has been found to be due to variation in the concentration of potassium bromide.

Abstract: A color reversal photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, an organic compound and colloid grains of a metal or metal sulfide or silver halide grains the surface of which is previously fogged. The silver halide emulsion layer includes fine grains of silver halide particles having a particle size of 0.3.mu. or less. The fine grain particles are present in the emulsion in an amount in the range of about 30% to about 95% based on the total number of silver halide grains in the emulsion. The silver halide emulsion also includes coarse grains having a particle size of more than 0.3.mu.. The organic compound has a solubility product constant of 10.sup.-14 or less when forming a salt with a silver ion.

Abstract: A method of color reversal treatment of an exposed silver halide photographic material is disclosed. The method involves treating the exposed material with 2 both type black-and-white developing solutions. The first solution contains a compound represented by the general formula (I):R.sub.2 --S--R.sub.1).sub.d --S--R.sub.2 (I)wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkylene group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, which may have ether bonds, R.sub.2 represents an alkyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms which alkyl group may have substituents, ether bonds or ester bonds, and d represents an integer of 0 to 3. The second black-and-white developing solution is a conventional solution. By utilizing the two solutions and specifically the first solution containing the compound of general formula (I) it is possible to obtain good photographic images having a high maximum density and good color balance.

Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic material comprising a backing layer containing both gelatin of an isoelectric point of 5.5 or more and a cationic polymer is disclosed. By utilizing the particular backing layer the color reversal photographic material has increased retouchability.

Abstract: A process for the production of a multicolor reversal image with improved color balance is provided which process comprises the steps of directing incident image light dot- or linewise modulated by a light-distributing means onto a multicolor photographic silver halide emulsion material containing a blue-, a green- and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and processing said silver halide emulsion layers to form a color reversal image.In the maximum density part of the dots or lines of said light distributing means e.g. a contact screen the ratio of the absorption density for the light corresponding with the spectral sensitivity region of the silver halide emulsion layer being during the exposure most remote from the light-distributing means to the absorption density for the light of the whole visible spectrum (400-700 nm) is higher than the said ratio in any other density part of the dots or lines (see FIG. 1).

Abstract: A yellow-dye-forming photographic developing composition having improved stability comprises a haloacetanilide coupler, such as alpha-pivalyl-alpha-(4-carboxyphenoxy)-2,4-dichloroacetanilide, an N-alkyl-N-alkoxyalkyl-p-phenylenediamine developing agent, such as 4-amino-N-ethyl-N-(2-methoxyethyl)-m-toluidine di-p-toluene sulfonate, and a 4,4-disubstituted-1-aryl-3-pyrazolidinone, such as 4,4-dimethyl-1-phenyl-3-pyrazolidinone.

Abstract: Photographic sensitive materials for a color-diffusion transfer process which are particularly useful in a wide variety of temperature and climate conditions are disclosed. The materials are comprised of a red-sensitive emulsion layer; a green-sensitive emulsion layer; and a blue-sensitive emulsion layer on a support wherein at least one of the layers is comprised of a plurality of additional layers. Two or more of the additional layers are direct reversal photographic emulsion layers of higher and lower sensitivity which are not previously fogged. The emulsion layer having lower sensitivity has a gradation of 1.8 or more resulting in a hard tone.

Abstract: A reversal development processing method for black and white silver halide photographic light-sensitive materials which comprises bleaching an imagewise exposed black and white silver halide photographic light-sensitive material with a bleaching solution containing at least one oxidizing agent capable of forming a water-soluble silver salt when reacted with the silver images of said exposed light-sensitive material in the presence of at least one bleach accelerating agent selected from the compounds represented by the general formulae (I) to (VIII) described in the specification.

Abstract: The stability of baths containing fogging agents, especially the stability of baths containing tin-II-ions, is increased by addition of an agent of the following formula ##STR1## respectively, a tautomeric or a salt thereof, the meaning of the substituents being as indicated in the specification.

Abstract: A color photographic material is provided in which the interimage effect is adjusted to provide optimum color reproduction. The photographic material comprises an emulsion referred to as type I emulsion, which releases an inhibitor on development and another emulsion with underripened grains which are more soluble than those of the type I emulsion.

Abstract: Novel photographic imaging process and materials suitable therefor are provided, which can find their application in multi-color motion picture and simultaneous sound recording, in direct-positive image formation, in image-intensification processes, etc. A photographic silver image is formed in at least one hydrophilic colloid layer of a light-sensitive photographic material incorporating silver halide, by means of exposure and alkaline development steps, followed by bleaching of quantities of silver which are present in areas of said layer extraneous to those where imaging silver is required.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support and at least one silver halide emulsion layer, at least one of the layers of said photographic sensitive material containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of those compounds represented by the formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV):[Co(NH.sub.3).sub.6 ][R.sup.1 COO].sub.3 (I)[Co(NH.sub.3).sub.6 ][R.sup.2 OOCR.sup.3 COO].sub.3 (II)[Co(NH.sub.3).sub.5 (R.sup.4 COO)]X.sub.2 (III)[Co(NH.sub.3).sub.5 (R.sup.5 NH.sub.2)]X.sub.3 (IV)wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.4 each represent an alkyl group having at least 3 carbon atoms or a fluorine-substituted alkyl group having at least 1 carbon atom; R.sup.3 is an alkylene group; R.sup.5 is an alkyl group having at least 1 carbon atom; X is a halogen atom, a nitrate ion, a sulfate ion, or a carboxylate ion is disclosed.

Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a layer containing a compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic or aromatic residue; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic or an aromatic residue; and X.sub.1 and X.sub.2, which may be the same or different, each represents a divalent aromatic group; and a method of forming a direct positive image which comprises processing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic material having a support carrying thereon an internal latent image type silver halide emulsion layer in the presence of the compound represented by the said formula (I). The compound is particularly effective in combination with diffusible dye releasing (DRR) compounds having o-hydroxyarylsulfamoyl groups.

Abstract: In a reversal color development process including a black and white development and a color development, the sharpness, granularity and multilayer effect of the color photographic images formed are remarkably improved by subjecting silver halide reversal color photographic materials to black and white development in the presence of a DIR compound, i.e., a non-coupler type compound capable of releasing a development inhibitor upon development, processing the color photographic materials in an aqueous solution of a fogging agent, and then subjecting the color photographic materials to color development.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of photographically processing a negative-working imagewise exposed silver halide photographic element to produce a reversal dye image comprising (a) developing the imagewise exposed silver halide with an electron transfer agent to produce oxidized electron transfer agent which reacts with a competing oxidizable substance and (b) developing silver halide remaining with the electron transfer agent in the presence of a dye image providing compound capable, after the competing oxidizable substance has been depleted, of reacting with the oxidized electron transfer agent to produce a reversal dye image. Image transfer film units are disclosed useful in the practice of this method. Such film units include those containing in addition to the competing oxidizable substance and initially immobile dye image providing compound a layer containing additional silver halide and a scavenger separating the additional silver halide from the immobile dye image providing compound.

Abstract: A process for forming color photographic images having improved granularity, sharpness, and gradation by applying, after image exposure, a color reversal process including a step of performing color development in the presence of a competing coupler. The element processed is a multilayer reversal color photographic material comprising a support having coated thereon at least three differently sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layers, the outermost layer of the color photographic material being blue-sensitive and containing a nondiffusible coupler forming a yellow dye by a coupling reaction with an oxidized primary aromatic amino color developing agent and represented by the following general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.

Abstract: An inhibitor removing bath for effecting color formation in a color positive development process which bath comprises a color accelerating agent, a contrast control agent and a pH control agent. The inhibitor removing bath may further contain in a preferred embodiment a color reversal agent. A complete color photographic development process using this inhibitor removing bath is found to provide color positive transparencies of excellent quality.

Abstract: Non-diffusible thioether compounds capable of releasing, on reaction with color developer oxidation compounds, a diffusible silver halide development inhibitor without at the same time forming permanent dyes to any substantial extent are characterized by containing a group of the formula ##STR1## or its tautomeric form, wherein Z.sup.1 represents an electron attracting substituent and X represents an aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic group that if released together with the sulfur atom, forms a diffusible silver halide development inhibiting mercaptane.

Abstract: Positive images including color images are obtained by a photographic reversal process by imagewise exposure of a material which comprises at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, black and white development, fogging and color development characterized in that the fogging is carried out in the presence of a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein the symbols are defined as hereinafter.

Abstract: A color film and a process for developing it in which the usual color image is given increased sharpness and resolution by the provision of a metallic silver image in a single layer of the emulsion.