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World War One Color Photos
Big D & Bubba Show ^ | 3/2/05 | Unknown

Posted on 03/03/2005 2:25:44 PM PST by 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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: archaeology; colorphotos; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; pictures; warphotos; worldwarone; ww1; wwi; zotgeist
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To: Jinjelsnaps
Nice pictures.....World War One Color Photos

Very tiny people then.

41 posted on 03/03/2005 2:49:39 PM PST by maestro
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Amazing - its hard to imagine reality wasn't black & white back then. These bring the period to life. Thanks


42 posted on 03/03/2005 2:50:36 PM PST by skeeter ("A nation without borders is not a nation" RW R)
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Thank you. Memories of an innocent world, long gone. Something within me wished while I was looking at the pitucres that they had left it there. Progress is all that grand.


43 posted on 03/03/2005 2:50:45 PM PST by SURI
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Does anyone know how many American veterans of WWI are still living? Unfortunately, it must be less than 100 at this point.


44 posted on 03/03/2005 2:51:02 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Thanks and the quality is better then I expected.


45 posted on 03/03/2005 2:51:04 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Rush agrees with me 98.5% of the time!)
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Those are some amazingly beautiful photographs. Thanks for the post!


46 posted on 03/03/2005 2:51:29 PM PST by reagan_fanatic ("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
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To: Raven6

Not to kill a joke, but...

The French fought bravely in WWI. They didn't surrender, nor appease or even collaborate with their enemy in WWI.

Of course, given the weapons and leadership their military brass gave them, and the proximity of the front lines to Paris, they had little choice.

You may now resume making French jokes.


47 posted on 03/03/2005 2:51:48 PM PST by TWohlford
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Thanks, great photos!


48 posted on 03/03/2005 2:53:20 PM PST by Die_Hard Conservative Lady (I have left this blank for a reason....)
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Very impressive. Thanks for posting.


49 posted on 03/03/2005 2:56:02 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: Jinjelsnaps

What has happened to France?

Really.
Back when those photos were taken, the French were tough bastards. And you can tell too.

And religious.
Note the priests (in uniform!) and the nuns.

That was during a terrible war, but those people look defiant, not defeated. Not at all.

That was 90 years ago, two generations. My grandfather fought in World War I.

Look at how far France has fallen!
Look at how quickly moral rot from within completely unhinged a great nation.

I tell you, those men in those photos kicked the German's asses. They were outnumbered but they fought and won. They were as fine as any troops in the world.

They do not look different from Americans, really, except for the officers photo, where they look like they're ready to mount horses for a cavalry charge.

How the mighty are fallen, in such a short time.
But WHY?
What made France fall from those guys in those photos that you would want on your side, and that nobody wanted to mess with, to the weak and feeble state that France is today?
Moral decay.
Rot from within.
The worm in the wood.

It makes you weep.
And when you see it in color, it looks more real, and close to us. What separated the poilus of my grandfather's generation from the effeminate France of today?
The loss of standards. Moral fatigue and collapse.
It happened there.
It wants to happen here.
No one is immune.


50 posted on 03/03/2005 2:57:37 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Tibikak ishkwata!)
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To: Professional Engineer

Wonderful. Thanks PE.


51 posted on 03/03/2005 2:57:37 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: Betis70

Boys at their game of skittle. The one in the middle looks an acolyte.
Picture made on the Place d'Erlon in the city of Reims, 1917.


52 posted on 03/03/2005 2:57:58 PM PST by Betis70 (I'm only Left Wing when I play hockey)
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To: Raven6

The French actually fought that one very hard. Those were not the French of 1940, or today.


53 posted on 03/03/2005 2:58:19 PM PST by buwaya
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Very cool. I agree with other Freepers who are surprised at the high quality of these photos.


54 posted on 03/03/2005 2:58:37 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: Jinjelsnaps

There was also a Russian color process at the same time. It took three exposures -- Red, Green and Blue -- separately and then the three colors were combined to make a color image. IT was very ungainly, unlike the Lumière process.

The images were odd, since the three exposures were taken separately anything that moved would be in one color.

Here's a link to the russian process.

http://www.utoronto.ca/tolstoy/colorportrait.htm


55 posted on 03/03/2005 2:59:39 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: Jinjelsnaps

Kind of brings the whole thing to life 90 years on.


56 posted on 03/03/2005 2:59:39 PM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: TWohlford
"Not to kill a joke, but..."-TWohlford

See my post #37...

You are correct in weapons and leadership given them. Didn't take long for us to replace the Chau Chat machine gun issued our troops with the reliable BAR, did it?

57 posted on 03/03/2005 3:00:35 PM PST by Raven6 (“The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. ")
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To: Raven6

They lost more men proportionately than anyone else in WWI, and kept at it.


58 posted on 03/03/2005 3:00:51 PM PST by buwaya
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To: buwaya

Yes, they did.
They lost about what the Russians did, proportionally, in World War II.
Ils ne paseront pas!
And they did not pass.

But look how far, how fast a great nation can fall due to nothing more than the change of mind of some people.

Ozymandius.


59 posted on 03/03/2005 3:02:54 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Tibikak ishkwata!)
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To: buwaya

See my #37 and #57... Third person to come after me for a joke. Sheesh, some need to lighten up just a bit. If I had meant something seriously I would have cranked out a paragraph or two.


60 posted on 03/03/2005 3:03:23 PM PST by Raven6 (“The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. ")
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