To be sure, many of the prettiest effects in color are even today produced by artificial stencil methods.

Photographs are simply printed in three colors like any ordinary color print.

The task of cutting those many stencils for the thousands of pictures on a reel is tremendous, and yet these difficulties have been overcome.

Any desired color effect can be obtained by this method and the beauty of the best specimens is unsurpassed.

But the difficulty is so great that it can hardly become a popular method.