Multilayer color sensitive materials

Claim 1

In a silver halide multilayer color light-sensitive material comprising a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein each silver halide emulsion layer contains a non-diffusible image forming coupler, the improvement which comprises at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers comprising an upper unit silver halide emulsion layer, a middle unit silver halide emulsion layer and a lower unit silver halide emulsion layer, in which the sensitivity of the three unit silver halide emulsion layers decreases in order from the upper unit silver halide emulsion layer to the lower unit silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said upper unit silver halide emulsion layer comprises a layer of a high speed silver halide emulsion wherein more than about 3% based on the total grains in the upper unit silver halide emulsion comprises silver halide grains having a grain size of about 2.0μ or larger, and at least the middle unit silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one development inhibitor releasing compound selected from the compounds represented by the following general formulae (VII)-(X); ##STR18## wherein A 1 represents a yellow coupler residue, a magenta coupler residue, a cyan coupler residue, a malondiimide coupler residue, a malondiester coupler residue or an indanone coupling compound residue, and B 1 represents a bromine atom, an acylamino group, a benzothiazolinylideneamino group or an aralkyloxy group; ##STR19## wherein A 2 represents a cyan coupler residue, and B 2 represents a halogen atom, a nitro group, an alkoxy group, an alkyl group, an amino group or an acylamino group; ##STR20## wherein A 2 has the same meaning as in the general formula (VIII) and B 1 has the same meaning as in the general formula (VIII); and ##STR21## wherein B 2 has the same meaning as in the general formula (VIII) and A 3 represents a yellow coupler residue, a magenta coupler residue, a cyan coupler residue, a malondiimide coupler residue, a malondiester coupler residue, an indanone coupling compound residue or an α-(2-benzothia (or benzooxa)acetanilide) type coupler residue.