Photographic silver halide color materials

A colour photographic material comprising at least two colour-forming units sensitive to different regions of the spectrum each comprising a silver halide emulsion layer characterised in that the material contains in or adjacent said layer, a ballasted photographic colour coupler and a ballasted sulphonhydrazide colour developing agent incorporated therein in droplets of a high boiling solvent and wherein the colour coupler is a heteroarylacetonitrile of the general formula (2) below, such that upon imagewise exposure of the material and processing of the element in an alkaline solution a dye image is formed by reaction of the oxidised suphonhydrazide developing agent and the colour coupler:

• ##STR23## wherein R.sup.2 is H or an alkyl or aryl group either of which may be substituted, X is --S--, --O-- or --N(R.sup.3)-- where R.sup.3 is alkyl or aryl group either of which may be substituted, Y is an electron-withdrawing group having Hammett sigma-para value greater than 0.3,
• and wherein the coupling position is indicated by the arrow.