Method for processing silver halide color photographic materials including a counter-current bleaching-fixation system

A method for processing a silverhalide color photograhic material comprising subjecting a silver halide photographic material to color development followed by bleaching-fixation, said bleaching-fixation including passing the photographic material through a first bleaching-fixation bath then to at least one additional bleaching-fixation bath each bleaching-fixation bath containing a solution with at least one bleaching agent and at least one fixing agent, while adding replenisher to at least one of the additional bleaching-fixation baths and counter-currently introducing overflow solution from at least one of the additional bleaching-fixation baths to a preceding bleaching-fixation bath, wherein subsequent to color development and prior to or simultaneously with the contact of the material with the bleaching agent the material is contacted with a bleach accelerating amount of at least one bleach accelerator, wherein the total time for bleaching-fixation is at least 0.37 minutes per g/m.sup.2 of silver contained in the treated photographic material and wherein the processing time in the first bleaching-fixation bath is about 10 to about 40% of the total time for bleaching-fixation.