Process for the production of a photographic color image by the silver dye bleach process and suitable color photographic material therefor

A process for the production of a photographic colour image by the silver dye bleach process, by exposure, silver developing, dye bleaching, silver bleaching and fixing, and using a photographic material which contains light-sensitive silver halide layers and dye layers on a base, which process comprises exposing image-wise a photographic material, which has at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, which can contain a diffusion-resistant, bleachable image dye, and immediately above it, on the side facing the light source, a silver halide-free layer containing a diffusion-resistant bleachable image dye, the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and silver halide-free layer being free from a dye bleach catalyst and processing the material in a processing bath containing a dye bleach catalyst, to give a colour image, the colour image being produced exclusively by image dyes present in the photographic material prior to exposure.