Colour photography in newspapers

In today's Daily Record online newspaper (link), they have stated a claim to have pioneered colour photography, with images of those images that were printed as far back as 1934.

The first colour images that I remember seeing in a newspaper were of the Clarkston Disaster in 1971, when I was 10 years old.

I'd love to know what other members' memories of colour photography in newsprint were.

My earliest memory of colour in newspapers was the launch of the 'Today' newspaper in the mid-eighties (1986?). I was still at school and one of my mates won a (at the time absolutely cutting edge) sky satellite system through the paper, and so we all also got to see videos of the Simpsons! Very cool...

Cheers

Looking at the images of the Mrs Simpson and the Queen Mother on the Record website I rather suspect they are hand coloured black and white shots rather than colour photographs. Interesting that the one sent by radio had to be transmitted as a CMYK separation.

I had always thought that 'Today' in the mid-eighties was the first colour newsapaper

Can't remember the paper, but I'm sure that I
saw cartoons in colour first.

Ken - I thought (if we're of similar ages) that you might have recalled the image of the fire crew and ambulances all lined up on the Clarkston Toll with very clear shots of the collapsed parade of shops, or the one that I recall most vividly was of a man, face blackened by ash and smoke, dragging a lady from the carnage, hands cupped around her breasts to get better leverage as he dragged her free. I think the lady later died. That was an extremely powerful image in my view. That said, I think the overwhelmingly most powerful image I ever saw in a newspaper was in B/W - the shot of the little naked Vietnamese girl screaming with the pain of napalm burning at her flesh. If ever a single image summed up the horrors of war, that has to be it!

That was probably The Beano Algi.

I think Ken is right that Today was the first real colour newspaper, although as I recall it was a while beforee the colour started to look anything like good.

Magazines experimented with simple colour in the late 1800s, usually by using a second wash of coloured ink on flowers or a similar subject.

Even in the 1950s colour separations were so expensive that European and british magazines shared shots. The magazine Colour Photography was largely printed in black and white.

I seem to recall that as a 16 year old in 1978 being very impressed (as only a 16 year can be) with the new 'newspaper' that had just been launched - The Daily Star - which had a colour photograph of a scantily clad lady in glorious colour on page 7 each day.

In fact looking back with fondness - I also recall that for the first time ever - some of my classmates could be seen avidly reading the paper on the school bus!

Carl

Quite sure it wasn't the Beano.... it was a broadsheet newspaper
and almost certainly an American strip cartoon possibly
the one with Dagwood Bumstead.... maybe Blondie!
Could have been the Express? and a Saturday only
thing.
http://www.blondie.com/index.html

Today (1986) used on-the-run-colour on 16 of 44 pages.
Others had featured colour for quite some time before.

EDIT:

From:


American Comic Strips

During their early days comic strips were published exclusively as weekly features in the Sunday supplement of American newspapers. The term "comic strip" in its strictest sense now refers to a syndicated newspaper feature that appears daily in a single row of three or four panels, together with other comic strips that form a page, and is printed in black and white, except on Sunday, when it appears in two to four consecutive rows and is printed in color in the comic section.

The first colour newspaper comic was in 1896

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Comic_strip

The last full page comic strip was in the 1950's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_%28comic_strip%29

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