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Offline Ramshackle_Curtis

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World War 2 in colour
« on: August 03, 2008, 11:17:23 AM »

Its a HUGE collection of recoloured black and white images from WW2

http://www.ww2incolor.com/

Sorry if this has been posted before. Anyway, its amazing and is worth a second look! Id love to see some minis painted in the wierd tones produced by the cumputer colouring...

« Last Edit: August 03, 2008, 11:22:44 AM by Ramshackle_Curtis »

Offline Wirelizard

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Re: World War 2 in colour
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2008, 03:40:25 AM »
There's a couple of great books out there (websites too, I'd imagine) that have real colour WW2 photos - not colourized B&W images, but actual colour ones.

Modern colour film was a late 1930s invention, but expensive and rare, obviously. The best of it took very, very good colour images, though, and lasted.

The most striking from one book was a tank on exercises somewhere in England, posed with about five different colours of signal smoke around it!

Offline Ramshackle_Curtis

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Re: World War 2 in colour
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2008, 10:28:09 AM »
Have you seen these yet?

http://my.opera.com/SerbianFighter/albums/show.dml?id=54939

Reportedly the oldest set of colour photos, made in 1910!

Here is more on the photos

http://englishrussia.com/?p=282

Offline joroas

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Re: World War 2 in colour
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2008, 01:24:06 PM »
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Here is more on the photos http://englishrussia.com/?p=282

Lovely photoes, there is an amazing amount of detail, and pleasing to see that if he came back today, he would be happy with the way ths buildings have survived intact throughout a hundred years of great changes.
'So do all who see such times. But that is not for us to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that we are given.'

 

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