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Chemical Ollie is offline Chemical Ollie
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I was really amazed by the TV series "True Colours of WW2" or whatever it's called in English. Those colour films made all the horrors seem like yesterday. B/W films and photos make history look older than it is, and B/W technology was used way into the 70ies.

As most of you probably don't know, colour photography was invented by the French Lumiere brothers about the turn of the last century. But it took a while before they really exported it. I've found some sites where the Frogs and their Russian friends show the period of WW1 and even earlier in it's true colours. Even if it was almost a 100 years ago, these pictures make the history feel much closer. They were just humans too, and they took part in one of the most idiotic mistakes ever.

I'm surprised we havent seen these pictures in the mainstream history books before, as the winners write the history, and the French certainly claimed to have won when they dictated the Peace in Versaille. I don't think it's some Technicolor or Photoshopping, it really seems to be true colour photos from that time.

http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.c...utochromes.html

http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-color.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/object.html

(To bad they removed the best site, that one was really AWESOME. It was only a temporary link.)
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seen some of those before... others show cathedrals, POWs and even the emir of Bokhara or something... not WWI-related, but same time.
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Anybody who has been in military service should be familiar with this picture. This hasn't changed the last 100 years.
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Even more interesting:

http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-children.html
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GREAT pics. This is very interesting, and really makes wwI come alive.
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Excellent pics, first time I have seen WW1 pics in colour. Which might be the reason I have found it a bit borish.. anyway, great links, I have enjoyed myself. And yes, they come ALIVE

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If only we would learn and all get along

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Russian kids in 1909. What has really changed in 96 years?

EDIT: But I think this image is Photoshopped
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this image struck me as lively
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This could be today in Chechnya, Afghanistan or whatever. But it was a 100 years ago.
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Don Quijote, feel the horror of Tsar Russia in 1912
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Amazing Absolutely incredible... I'm bookmarking some of this. It's so eerie to think that most of the people that survived that war are dead and dying now. And the pic of the Russian kids in 1909... that strange look on the blonde girls face on the right... I don't know why but this is mind blowing.
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Russian kids in 1909. What has really changed in 96 years?


They'd be carrying mobile phones now.
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They'd be carrying mobile phones now.


Or at least shoes. Especially if their big sister become a whore in Germany and sent some money home. Lilya Forever...
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Outstanding. Not only are they in color, but the quality is amazing. Very crisp.
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Nice pictures



Now, colour pics of Waterloo

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Outstanding. Not only are they in color, but the quality is amazing. Very crisp.


The guy peeing looks weird though, looks like a plastic puppet.
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Surely some of them must have been retouched. I can't immagine piuctures taken so long ago with the limited technology available then being so well preserved.
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Awesome pictures, but it could make a grown man cry...

It really strikes home that the war was a co-existence of the early industrial and the modern. The war clearly swept away the underbrush of previous times.

The French color pictures are a lot better than the American color pictures. The American ones are little more than paint by numbers.
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They're colorized.
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the color on the pictures look too good. They may have been colorized at a later date.
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They still look like crap.

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quote:
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This could be today in Chechnya, Afghanistan or whatever. But it was a 100 years ago.



I'm having trouble believing this picture is legit, and the one below it.
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Yeah, they don't look colorized.

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Very cool.

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Yeah, they don't look colorized.

ACK!


I do believe the term we are looking for is "Turnerized"

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I do believe the term we are looking for is "Turnerized"


I was going to give Ted a thumbs down also.

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