Silver halide sensor type polymerizable light-sensitive material

Claim 1

A process for forming a polymeric image in a silver halide sensor type polymerizable light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a silver halide photographic emulsion layer, comprising reducing a development nucleus-containing silver halide using at least one phenol compound and at least one hydrazine compound in the presence of at least one non-gaseous ethylenically unsaturated compound capable of undergoing addition polymerization to selectively polymerize the ethylenically unsaturated compound in an area where the development nucleus-containing silver halide is present, the phenol compound being represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR7## wherein R 1 represents an alkyl group or a substituted alkyl group; R 2 and R 2 ', which may be the same or different, each represents hydrogen, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an aryl group, a substituted aryl group, an aralkyl group or a halogen atom; and R 3 and R 3 ', which may be the same or different, each represents hydrogen, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an aryl group, a substituted aryl group, an aralkyl group, an alkoxy group, a thioalkyl group or a halogen atom, and the hydrazine compound being represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR8## wherein R 4 represents hydrogen, a sulfo group (which may be a water-soluble metal salt or ammonium salt), an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an aryl group, a substituted aryl group, an aralkyl group, a substituted aralkyl group, an acyl group, a substituted acyl group, an arylhydrazinocarbonyl group, a thiocarbamoyl group, an arylazothiocarbonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group or a substituted arylsulfonyl group; R 5 represents hydrogen, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group or an aryl group; R 4 and R 5 may be bonded to each other to form a ring comprising a member selected from a carbon atom, an oxygen atom and a nitrogen atom; R 6 represents hydrogen, a sulfo group (which may be a water-soluble metal salt or ammonium salt), an aryl group, an acyl group or a substituted acyl group; and R 4 and R 6 may be bonded to each other to form a ring, or a salt thereof.