Posted on 03/28/2019 1:19:26 PM PDT by libstripper
The Lumiere brothers patented Autochrome Lumiere photography in 1903 and held their first demonstration in 1907.
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Lol...
October 29, 1989 (from Scientific Progress Goes ‘Boink’, page 23 / The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, page 151)
Q. How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then?
A. Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It’s just that the world was black and white then. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Q. But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn’t artists have painted it that way?
A. Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Q. But… But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn’t their paints have been shades of gray back then?
A. Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the ’30s.
Q. So why didn’t old black and white photos turn color too?
A. Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
Thanks for digging that up.
I was curious so I checked YouTube for “coronation of Queen Elizabeth II”. The BBC TV recording of nearly 3 hours is in black and white (they didn’t get color TV until the late 60s).
I see some filmed segments of the coronation in color too, such as...
the procession...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTOXdND_Yoo
and the crowning...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inKSvLk7kiI
My paternal grandfather was born in 1888 in a small village in what is now the Czech Republic, and died in 1974 in Pennsylvania. I've often mused about the same things he saw transpire in his lifetime. One old family story is when the family bought the first TV, he was watching a studio wrestling match, and when one of the guys was thrown out of the ring (and off the screen) my grand pap leapt out of his chair, ran to the TV and tried to look past the edge of the screen to see where the fellow ended up.
My Dad was born in 1897 and died in 1976. He couldn’t believe what he had lived through in his life.
Horses and horse drawn devices were how people traveled when he a young lad to even his early adulthood.
He was was one of the first to buy a motorcycle and then a Model A.
He was injured in WWI and saw WWII, the Korean War,Cuban Missile crisis and Viet Nam. He said he had seen enough wars to last several lifetimes. He hated wars that had cost him friends, relatives and his good health.
He felt that personal cars/trucks were the real break thru for Americans. Before Henry Ford, if part of your family or friends lived 50 miles away, it was a several day trip to visit if there was no trains available. He didn’t fly until we had kids, his grand kids. He loved to fly after his first flight in his late 60’s.
He loved the radio and then tv. I had the flu one fall and stayed at home from school during a world series that was broadcast live on tv. He and I watched the world series. He loved baseball and listened to the White Sox and Cardinal games on the radio.
He couldn’t believe that he could stay at home and watch a world series game live. He loved Western tv shows like Gunsmoke. He didn’t care for Hollywood movie shows on tv or at movie theaters.
He didn’t care for the phone, and he seldom talked when he was on the phone, and let our mother talk to us. Later we felt that, he probably got criticized by Mom after the phone calls were over for his hearing problems basically on the phones.
He thought that our space program was awesome.
He had amazing eyes like our sons. They have 20/20 and 20/10 eyesight in their 50’s and only used reading glasses like him.
He developed cataracts in his 70’s and then, cataract surgery was a major surgery and had a long recovery. He decided instead, to buy the Readers Digest in big print, go to the library for big print books and we bought a bigger screen tv for him. He listened to local radio news and Paul Harvey and watched the evening news on his new tv. Of course any major league baseball game on tv was prime time for him.
He sold or gave away his 1954 Plymouth 4 door, it was mainly used for his one man fishing trips. My mother was younger and she drove to and from work in her own vehicle.
So, when he quit driving, there were no more fishing trips. His friends were in the same age group, and they gave up driving before he did. So even meeting them in the local park and a brown bag lunch was tough.
My mother and he moved to a bigger city 50 miles away for a better paying teach job and better retirement for her. He was a lost soul, until a younger relative figured out that my mother could drop him off at a bus station on her way to work and pick him at the station on her way home after school was over. In good weather, he might make that round trip 3 times a week. He got a senior discount and a veterans discount. I think that he could buy 3 round trip tickets for $5.
He would pack a brown bag, lunch some water, and catch the bus, to meet his friends in his/their home town. The park was two blocks from the bus station. Then,that afternoon he would catch a return bus to where he/Mom lived then. She would pick up at the bus station. He was happy and so was she. That went on few years until he had no more friends left alive. He went over a couple of times to visit their graves when their sons or daughters would take him to and from the cemeteries and back to the park.
He told me that giving up driving and his car was one of the hardest and toughest decisions he had ever made. He knew that his vision was making him a possible hazard for others. He would never hurt anyone on purpose, so he had to stop driving.
Later, he told me that giving up his car and driving meant giving up a lot of his personal freedom/choices. He had to depend on friends/relatives and to make a minor trip.
Now I’m in my 80’s, my vision is 20/20 after easy cataract surgeries. We still have two vehicles in case we need to go to different places at the same time or ??
We have friends in their late 70’s to late 80’s, who have given up driving. They depend on Uber, friends, relatives to help them to get where they need to go. However, the joy and freedom of getting into your own vehicle and going where and when you want to, is gone for these folks.
We haven’t given up having our licenses and own vehicles.
We are not looking forward to that.
It is indeed a thrill to drive one of the old timer cars. I have a 29 Model A. They don't go fast but they do purr and they sound wonderful. Car manufacturers back then were very proud of their product.
You’re Welcome! :)
Not yet. I’m waiting for PPV, Amazon, or Netflix.
On that note, go see They Shall Not Grow Old. WWI was not fought in black and white. Stay thru the credits for the Peter Jackson interview at the end.
My paternal grandparents were born in 1884 in a little village in Eastern Europe and came to the US in 1914—both lived to be 93. Supposedly the first time my grandmother saw a banana she didn’t know you were supposed to take the peel off before eating it, and she tried to turn off an electric light by blowing on it. My grandfather reportedly thought that the moon landings were faked (I never talked to him directly about it).
Great film!
the color was original ...
I thought the same.
But, my father was right on top of it -
“That’s an ‘orse of a different color...”
Great to hear about your Dad, Dave. Keep on truckin’ and automobilein’
Looked at all 16 slides but something bothered me about the pics. Oh yes, no fat people.
Thanks!
Photographic colour entered the cinema at approximately the same time as sound, although, as with sound, various colour effects had been used in films since the invention of the medium. Georges Méliès, for example, employed 21 women at his Montreuil studio to hand-colour his films frame by frame, but hand-colouring was not cost-effective unless films were very short. In the mid-1900s, as films began to approach one reel in length and more prints of each film were sold, mechanized stenciling processes were introduced. In Pathé’s Pathécolor system, for example, a stencil was cut for each colour desired (up to six) and aligned with the print; colour was then applied through the stencil frame by frame at high speeds. With the advent of the feature and the conversion of the industry to mass production during the 1910s, frame-by-frame stenciling was replaced by mechanized tinting and toning. Tinting coloured all the light areas of a picture and was achieved by immersing a black-and-white print in dye or by using coloured film base for printing. The toning process involved chemically treating film emulsion to colour the dark areas of the print. Each process produced monochrome images, the colour of which was usually chosen to correspond to the mood or setting of the scene. Occasionally, the two processes were combined to produce elaborate two-colour effects. By the early 1920s, nearly all American features included at least one coloured sequence; but after 1927, when it was discovered that tinting or toning film stock interfered with the transmission of optical sound, both practices were temporarily abandoned, leaving the market open to new systems of colour photography.
Photographic colour can be produced in motion pictures by using either an additive process or a subtractive one. The first systems to be developed and used were all additive ones, such as Charles Urban’s Kinemacolor (c. 1906) and Gaumont’s Chronochrome (c. 1912). They achieved varying degrees of popularity, but none was entirely successful, largely because all additive systems involve the use of both special cameras and projectors, which ultimately makes them too complicated and costly for widespread industrial use.
One of the first successful subtractive processes was a two-colour one introduced by Herbert Kalmus’s Technicolor Corporation in 1922. It used a special camera and a complex procedure to produce two separate positive prints that were then cemented together into a single print. The final print needed careful handling but could be projected by means of ordinary equipment. This “cemented positive” process was used successfully in such features as Toll of the Sea (1922) and Fairbanks’s The Black Pirate (1926). In 1928 Technicolor introduced an improved process in which two gelatin positives were used as relief matrices to “print” colour onto a single strip of film. This printing process, known as imbibition, or dye-transfer, made it possible to mass-produce sturdy, high-quality prints. Its introduction resulted in a significant rise in Technicolor production between 1929 and 1932. Colour reproduction in the two-colour Technicolor process was good, but, because only two of the three primary colours were used, it was still not completely lifelike. Its popularity began to decline sharply in 1932, and Technicolor replaced it with a three-colour system that employed the same basic principles but included all three primary colours.
For the next 25 years almost every colour film made was produced by using Technicolor’s three-colour system. Although the quality of the system was excellent, there were drawbacks. The bulk of the camera made location shooting difficult. Furthermore, Technicolor’s virtual monopoly gave it indirect control of the production companies, which were required to rent—at high rates—equipment, crew, consultants, and laboratory services from Technicolor every time they used the system. In the midst of the Depression, therefore, conversion to colour was slow and never really complete. After three-colour Technicolor was used successfully in Disney’s cartoon short The Three Little Pigs (1933), the live-action short La Cucaracha (1934), and Rouben Mamoulian’s live-action feature Becky Sharp (1935), it gradually worked its way into mainstream feature production (The Garden of Allah, 1936; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937; The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938; The Wizard of Oz, 1939; Gone with the Wind, 1939), although it remained strongly associated with fantasy and spectacle.
Interesting, thanks.
Color photographs of Russia circa 1910. Made by taking 3 quick successive exposures using red, blue and green filters.
https://mashable.com/2014/09/30/russian-revolution-in-color/#FA9CmA3Q4Zqk
https://mashable.com/2014/09/30/russian-revolution-in-color/#FA9CmA3Q4Zqk
https://flashbak.com/people-russian-empire-original-color-photos-1909-1915-395860/
bkmk
Thanks for posting the links to those fantastic pictures.
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