Photographic color reproduction process

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A PHOTOGRAPHIC COLOR REPRODCUTION PROCESS WHICH COMPRISES EXPOSING TO A COLORED SUBJECT A PHOTOGRAPHIC ELEMENT HAVING AT LEAST TWO SUPERPOSED SILVER HALIDE EMULSION LAYERS SENSITIZED TO DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM AND EACH CONTAINING A COUPLER COMPOUND CAPABLE OF FORMING DYE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTS OF A PRIMARY AROMATIC AMINO SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT AND HAVING ATTACHED TO THE COUPLER MOLECULE A GROUP OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF HEAVY METAL-SUBSTITUTED IMINO AND MERCAPTO GROUPS, DEVELOPING THE EXPOSED EMULSION LAYERS WITH A SOLUTION OF SAID DEVELOPING AGENT TO FORM NON-DIFFUSIBLE DYE IMAGES ONLY IN THE EXPOSED REGIONS OF THE EMULSIOIN LAYERS, TRANSFORMING THE COUPLER COMPOUNDS IN THE UNEXPOSED REGIONS OF THE EMULSION LAYERS TO DIFFUSIBLE COUPLERS, PLACING THE EMULSION LAYERS IN INTIMATE CONTACT WITH AN ABSORBENT SURFACE TO SIMULTANEOUSLY LAYERS OF DIFFUSE IMAGE-WISE INTO THE ABSORBENT SURSION LAYERS TO DIFFUSE IMAGE-WISE INTO THE OBSORBENT SURFACE, AND REACTING THE DIFFUSED COUPLERS IN THE ABSORBEND SURFACE WITH THE OXIDATION PRODUCTS OF A PRIMARY AROMATIC AMINO SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT TO FORM DY IMAGES.