World War One Color Photos

Big D & Bubba Show ^ | 3/2/05 | Unknown

[Jinjelsnaps]

Found this on another message board, and thought my fellow Freepers would enjoy the history.

From the site: "The color photo was invented in 1903 by the Lumiere brothers, and the French army was the only one taking color photos during the course of the war."

http://www.bigdandbubba.com/nicknacks/color_photo_was_invented_in.htm

[schu]

The French were very tough soldiers, especially during WWI. It was a major emphasis to build an army of high valor and toughness prior to the Great War.

Unfortunately this toughness was frittered away by poor leadership and the idea that this toughness was a substitute for good weapons, organization and such trivialities as food and clothing. By 1917, many French units were near mutiny, the slaughter was just too much. How the "rebellion" was put down is hush-hush, but the subversives were weeded out and dealt with.

Marshall Petain was instrumental in reestablishing order, he was of course the hero of Verdun and a key general. After the war the French military really never recovered and were fodder for the Germans in 1940 during round 2.

Petain's history is fascinating, WWI hero, Vichy leader, Nazi collaborator, tried in his 90s and sentenced to death for this collaboration, sentence commuted and he died a disgraced man. Classic French stab in the back, although cannot say Petain deserved much else.

[PilloryHillary]

BUH BYE TROLL!

[DuncanWaring]

Finest hour. "Last" hour, also.

The Great War burned the fight/courage/honor gene out of the French gene pool.

[Darksheare]

YOU are sad and pathetic, troll.

[Darksheare]

You deserve your banning.
As a former soldier, your oozing affection for the French backstabbers is offensive to me.
Go to France if you love them so much.

[Darksheare]

I see you can't face the fact that you have no material from which to troll, so you're forced to be idiotic in thread.
It must be tough being a Liberal Democrat Shill with a vacuous skull.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, I certainly love bashing Bush. Been bashing Bush for years. Feels great!

Bye, Commie Bush Basher. Your Trolling days are over.

"He's dead, Jim!"

[MeekOneGOP]

Sorry for the double ping to the same thread / same Troll, but I just couldn't resist this one.

[PilloryHillary]

BUH BYE BUSH BASHER!

[Arrowhead1952]

Well I be, Commie Basher has been here over 5 years and now turn into a Bush bashing troll. Real DUmmy.

[JimWforBush]

Amazing to see zot from someone who's been here since 1999.

[Not A Snowbird]

Try to get your facts straight next time you sign up to post here, okay?

[Not A Snowbird]

[pelikan]

Thanks for the ping, Meekie! Great pics...and you got to get rid of another troll!

[glock rocks]

[MeekOneGOP]

He's busted! :^D

[MarineBrat]

>>Amazing to see zot from someone who's been here since 1999.

Since I snagged him, or at least tipped off MeekOneGOP, do I get a "Deepest Troll" of the month award of some type? :)

[Yardstick]

Black and white photos don't do history justice-they seem dead and not a part of the real world- like a story from a textbook. Then you see the images in color, like the General in a cafe reading the paper...-it really hits home, it really happened and not so long ago...

My thoughts exactly. The pic of the General looks totally real and contemporary.

It's funny -- the only period of history that I imagine in black and white is the late 19th and early 20th century. There are so many b&w photos from that era that it's just ingrained that that's the way it looked. But when I think of the Romans the medieval times or even the early part of US history, like the Revolutionary War, I picture it in color.

Seeing the WWI and WWII stuff in color makes you realize that they lived in a color world too. You know intellectually that that was the case, but it's still almost eerie to see the color pics.

[KoRn]

He's Very Dead Jim!

All your Nukes ARE Belong to Us!!!!

ZOT!

PWND!

[Zacs Mom]

Aw....too I missed him.

I was just fixin' to introduce him to


"Major Zot"