Silver halide color photographic materials

A silver halide color photographic material comprising:

• (a) support,
• (b) only three silver halide photosensitive emulsion layers comprising silver halide grains on said support, wherein
• (i) a first of said three photosensitive layers has a spectral sensitivity peak in the wavelength region of 650-690 nm;
• a second of said three photosensitive layers has a spectral sensitivity peak in the wavelength region of 720-790 nm;
• and a third of said three photosensitive layers has a spectral sensitivity peak in the wavelength region of 770-850 nm, at least two of said first, second and third photosensitive layers having been sensitized by at least one sensitizing dye selected from the group consisting of the dyes represented by general formula (I), (II) and (III), and ##STR88## wherein Z.sub.11 and Z.sub.12 each represents a group of atoms which is required to form a heterocyclic ring;
• R.sub.11 and R.sub.12 each represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group or an aralkyl group;
• m.sub.11 represents an integer of 2 or 3;
• R.sub.13 represents a hydrogen atom;
• R.sub.14 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having one to four carbon atoms or an aralkyl group, or it is optionally joined with R.sub.12 to form a 5- or 6-membered ring;
• j.sub.11 and k.sub.11 represent 0 or 1 X.sup..crclbar..sub.11 represents an acid anion, and n.sub.11 represents 0 or 1;
• ##STR89## wherein Z.sub.21 and Z.sub.22 have the same definition as Z.sub.11 and Z.sub.12, respectively;
• R.sub.1 and R.sub.22 have the same definition as R.sub.11 and R.sub.12, respectively;
• R.sub.23 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group or an aryl group;
• m.sub.21 represents an integer of 2 or 3;
• R.sub.24 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having one to four carbon atoms or an aryl group or R.sub.24 is optionally joined with another R.sub.24 group to form a hydrocarbyl or heterocyclic ring;
• Q.sub.21 represents a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, a selenium atom or an ##STR90## group, and R.sub.25 has the same meaning as R.sub.23 ;
• j.sub.21, k.sub.21, X.sub.21.sup..crclbar. and n.sub.21 have the same definition as j.sub.11 k.sub.11 x.sub.11.sup..crclbar. and n.sub.11, respectively;
• ##STR91## wherein Z.sub.31 represents a group of atoms which is required to form a heterocyclic ring;
• Q.sub.31 has the same definition as Q.sub.21 ;
• R.sub.31 has the same meaning as R.sub.11 or R.sub.12 ;
• R.sub.32 has the same definition as R.sub.23 ;
• m.sub.31 represents 2 or 3;
• R.sub.33 has the same definition as R.sub.24, or it is optionally joined with another R.sub.33 group to form a hydrocarbyl or heterocyclic ring;
• j.sub.31 has the same definition as j.sub.11 ;
• (ii) one of said three photosensitive layers contains a cyan coupler, another of said three photosensitive layers contains a magenta coupler and another of said three photosensitive layers contains a yellow coupler, and
• (iii) said silver halide grains of said three photosensitive emulsion layers comprise silver halide composed of at least 96 mol% silver chloride and wherein said silver halide grains of at least one of said three layers have a local phase on the surface thereof containing from 0.01 to 3 mol% of silver iodide (based on the amount of silver halide in the emulsion), wherein the local phase containing the silver iodide is formed by recrystallization by mixing preformed silver halide grains and silver halide grains which have a different halogen composition from that of the silver halide which has been formed already, and then ripening the mixture.