Novel photographic color processes and products

Claim 1

THE PROCESS COMPRISING DEVELOPING AN EXPOSED SILVER HALIDE EMULSION WITH AN AQUEOUS ALKALINE SOLUTION CONTAINING A SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT, SAID SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT BEING PRESENT IN SUCH QUANTITY PER UNIT AREA OF SILVER HALIDE EMULSION AS TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY REACTED IN FULLY DEVELOPED AREAS OF SAID EMULSION, FORMING IN DEVELOPED AREAS OF SAID EMULSION AS A RESULT OF SAID DEVELOPMENT AN IMAGEWISE DISTRIBUTION OF UNOXIDIZED SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT HAVING A CONCENTRATION SUBSTANTIALLY INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE DEGREE OF DEVELOPMENT PER UNIT AREA OF SAID SILVER HALIDE EMULSION, REDUCING A REDUCIBLE POLYMER IMAGEWISE WITH SAID UNOXIDIZED SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT, SAID REDUCIBLE POLYMER BEING THE PRODUCT OBTAINED BY COUPLING THE OXIDATION PRODUCT OF A COLOR DEVELOPER WITH A POLYVINYL ACETAL FORMED FROM POLYVINYL ALCOHOL AND AN AROMATIC ALDEHYDE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF AROMATIC ALDEHYDES CONTAINING BENZENE AND NAPHTHALENE NUCLEI CONTAINING A HYDROXYL GROUP AND HAVING AN AVAILABLE COUPLING POSITION PARA TO SAID HYDROXYL GROUP, THE SUBSTITUENT FORMED BY SAID COUPLING REACTION BEING REDUCIBLE BY SAID UNOXIDIZED SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENT LESS READILY THAN IS SAID EXPOSED SILVER HALIDE BUT MORE READILY THAN IS SAID UNEXPOSED SILVER HALIDE, SAID REDUCTION OF SAID SUBSTITUENT OF SAID REDUCIBLE POLYMER FORMING THE LWUCO DERIVATIVE OF SAID SUBSTITUENT.