The Great War in color

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-01-28 04:47pm

right here

I didnt even knew there were colored pictures. Gives the whole thing a new dimension

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-01-28 05:00pm

I think they were digitally colorized. Check the third post in the thread, by Steven:

No, HBN, you fool, they a original French archives which have been digitally colourised.

http://www.culture.gouv.fr

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-01-28 05:10pm

They're definately not actual colour photographs, rather digital.

The colour definition is off, like it's been colourised, and it doesn't really look at all like autochrome (actually, it looks a little like it, but it's still all wrong), the only available colour film process from 1907 until 1935, when Kodak introduced Kodachrome.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2005-01-28 05:11pm

There was a show on the History Channel showing digtally colorized WWI footage. It was cool.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2005-01-28 05:59pm

Further down the thread they mention the color images as having been taken by a French photographer who had his own rather expensive, high-quality color process-- T-something... I forgot the exact name though.