Color photographic materials

A multilayer color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, said red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a gelatin interlayer adjacent said red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a non-diffusible colored coupler which releases, on coupling reaction with the oxidation product of a primary aromatic amino developing agent at development, a diffusible dye capable of being diffused from the photographic layer during development, said non-diffusible colored coupler being represented by general formula (I):

• a -- o -- so.sub.2 -- r -- b (i)
• wherein R represents an alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms;
• A represents an image forming coupler residue containing a phenol nucleus or a naphthol nucleus, and wherein the --O-SO.sub.2 -R-B group is bonded to the coupling position of the coupler residue and the group can be released upon oxidative coupling with an aromatic primary amine developing agent to form a dye;
• and B represents a residue containing a chromophore which renders the coupler colored and which consists of a dye component having its spectral absorption in the visible region.