Light-sensitive silver halide photographic elements containing yellow filter dyes

Photographic elements are disclosed having on a support a silver halide emulsion layer sensitive to radiation other than blue light in addition to its intrinsic sensitivity to blue region, and a yellow filter layer between the silver halide emulsion layers and the source of exposure, the yellow filter layer containing a yellow filter dye represented by the structural formula: wherein: R is hydrogen, alkyl group or aryl group; R1 is aryl group or heterocyclic group; X is O or N-R2 where R2 is hydrogen or alkyl group; Y is N-R3 where R3 is hydrogen or alkyl group; n is 0 or 1; Z is hydrogen, alkyl group or aryl group; W is hydrogen, or W and Z, taken together, represent the atoms necessary to form an aryl group. In particular, multilayer color photographic elements are disclosed having thereon a support base, in order from the support, red-, green-, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers respectively associated with non-diffusing cyan, magenta and yellow dye-forming couplers, wherein a yellow filter layer containing the yellow filter dyes of the above structural formula is positioned below the blue-sensitive layer(s) and above the green-sensitive layer(s) and the red-sensitive layer(s). The photographic elements herein disclosed provide yellow filter layers which have the required spectral absorption characteristics, are easily bleached during photographic processing steps, and do not suffer from stain problems after processing and incubative aging.