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Mjcpr
2/22/2006, 09:07 AM
Found these on another site, thought they might interest some of you.

WWI Pics....IN COLOR (http://www.poiemadesign.com/wwi/)

http://www.poiemadesign.com/wwi/assets/images/db_images/db_sap01_ca000500_p3.jpg

I had no idea such a thing even existed. I was pretty excited to see the color video from WWII. I assume this isn't made up BS...looks real anyway.

Operation Overlord (http://www.trimaran.com/d-day/zone/zone_uk.html)

Just looked at this briefly but it looks like modern day pics taken at various points of the D-Day Invasion. Kinda cool.
Mjcpr
2/22/2006, 09:13 AM
Operation Overlord (http://www.trimaran.com/d-day/zone/zone_uk.html)

Just looked at this briefly but it looks like modern day pics taken at various points of the D-Day Invasion. Kinda cool.

You can click in the picture and move it to see a panoramic view.
jeremy885
2/22/2006, 09:33 AM
A coworker of mine, who is really big into photography, says that they are fakes or the color has been painted on.

She says that color film was invented on 4/15/1935. I'm to lazy to look it up, so I'll take her word on it.
Mjcpr
2/22/2006, 09:36 AM
A coworker of mine, who is really big into photography, says that they are fakes or the color has been painted on.

She says that color film was invented on 4/15/1935. I'm to lazy to look it up, so I'll take her word on it.

I wouldn't be surprised.....I didn't think it was around during WWI but I'm not a photography expert either so....
Harry Beanbag
2/22/2006, 09:38 AM
They most definitely look like WWI era photographs, whether they were actually taken with color film or not I have no idea.
jeremy885
2/22/2006, 09:39 AM
Now she's saying they could be real. Women, :mad:
JohnnyMack
2/22/2006, 09:39 AM
Toured the beaches in Normandy last October. Highly recommended.
Harry Beanbag
2/22/2006, 09:41 AM
Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia link on that site:


The Autochrome Lumière is an early color photography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography) process. Patented in 1903 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903) by the Lumière brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumi%C3%A8re_brothers) in France, and marketed in 1907 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907) it remained the principal color photography process available on the market until 1935 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1935).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autochrome_Lumi%C3%A8re


It was actually color photography without the use of film as we know it today.
jeremy885
2/22/2006, 09:46 AM
Toured Ft Charolette in the Bahamas last week. Don't recommed it.
GDC
2/22/2006, 09:55 AM
Toured the beaches in Normandy last October. Highly recommended.

Especially the cemetery and Point du hoc, both were overwhelming.