World War 1 Color Photos!
That's way interesting.
Thanks for sharing those. Amazing.
Very cool - thanks for posting.
Man! You mean there was color back then? I always thought the world was black & white.
Photos are very good. Thanks for the link.
Those are surprisingly high quality pictures!
Thanks for sharing.
BM and BTTT
Interesting photos.
Some early tv programs during the b/w days used color film because it didn't cost any more than b/w film. Later, when colored TV became commonplace, those old programs seemed ahead of the curve by showing up in color.
Very high qualiy and vivid images for such an early period in photography.
Amazing to think that all of those folks in those photos are dead now.
mark,
Once you get past the clothes, these photos could have been taken in France yesterday.
Of course, if they were taken yesterday, there would be a lot fewer white people in the pictures.
Cheers,
knews hound
Facinating!
If these were French why wasn't the main color yellow?
Good catch....now get back to work!
Wow, incredible photos. Does anyone know what the kids in one of the phots have? The colored pins...bowling pins maybe?
Those are some of the neatest pictures I've ever seen.
Wow. That's amazing! Thanks for the post. :-)
Suprisingly color photos were actually first produced in 1861, however given the clarity and the coloring of the photos posted, I'm somewhat skeptical that they are real (but I could certainly be wrong).
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/Encyclopedia/P/Ph/Photography.htm
"Color photography was explored throughout the 1800s. Initial experiments in color could not fix the photograph and prevent the color from fading. The first permanent color photo was taken in 1861 by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell Quick Summary (Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)).
The first color film did not reach the market until 1907 and was based on dyed dots of potato starch. The first modern color film, Kodachrome Quick Summary:
Quick Summary not found for this subjectKodachrome, was introduced in 1935 based on three colored emulsions. Most modern color films, except Kodachrome, are based on technology developed for Agfacolor in 1936.
One of the early methods of taking color photos was to use three cameras. Each camera would have a color filter Quick This technique provides the photographer with the three basic channels required to recreate a color image in a darkroom."
The second photo appears to show a french soldier being fitted for his white flag.