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

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

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.

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

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

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.