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- giveer, on 11/12/2009, -0/+128Perhaps it's just spending a lifetime associating "that time" with things that are old, grainy and black and white, but it never ceases to amaze me how more vivid my identification with that time occurs with the colour.. It really gives it a strong "it could have been yesterday" feeling.
- MacBookForMe, on 11/11/2009, -1/+100What a human madness!
In one day of the Battle of the Somme, 56,000 men died. A year later at Paschendale, 300,000 Allied British soldiers were killed.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Haigthe-f ... - JoeNaguib, on 11/11/2009, -3/+80Lest we forget - now in technicolor.
- dsenman, on 11/12/2009, -0/+65Also this amazing photo:
http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/32cbg_hq/HQ/2009/Gall ...
(two Germans with a Maxim machine gun. ) - TobiasParker, on 11/12/2009, -2/+64Amazing, i love color photography/videos from such a long time ago, it really helps to identify with the history. Sometimes it can be difficult to really imagine the events when you have still black and white images and 5fps videos that almost look stop-motion.
- 4321234, on 11/12/2009, -0/+56The picture of Canadian soldiers surveying a destroyed German bunker can be seen on the wikipedia page on the 2nd Battle of Passchendaele (which I happened to be reading about earlier today). Also this incredible aerial photo of the town of Passchendaele before and after the battle.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8 ... - Ghostwo, on 11/12/2009, -7/+52I think I saw a nude Bruce Willis....
- Zeigy, on 11/12/2009, -4/+45Buried as inaccurate the world was in black and white back then. Just look at any photograph or film from the 1910's.
- ChiffX, on 11/12/2009, -2/+43http://rorr.im
- rolf, on 11/12/2009, -2/+39Color makes it seem like real people. B/W always made them less real, like illustrations in a history book without much connection to the present day.
- brycehebert, on 11/12/2009, -0/+36This is true:
http://www.freewebs.com/calvin-hobbes-org/dadbandw ... - cruzweb, on 11/12/2009, -0/+34Fantastic stuff...this is one of the best things I've seen on Digg in a while
- darkphenox, on 11/12/2009, -0/+27I'm very surprised at the quality of the pictures I was expecting something alot more grainy and low quality, the pictures being so clear makes them more poignant.
- snowblind113, on 11/12/2009, -0/+26http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/ I posted this as a reply to the first comment, but if you would like to see more color shots, some of them higher res.. then please enjoy this link ( i hate how every environmental graffiti article is either a google images article or taken from another site //endrant )
- TrevorBelmont, on 11/12/2009, -1/+24Can you please just stop it. We know you're a troll. It's obvious and it's tired.
- Egg333, on 11/12/2009, -0/+22That's some deep writing in those captions. Kinda depressing.
- snowblind113, on 11/12/2009, -2/+21This is where they took the pictures from... and if you view this link they are in a higher res too, not the small squares like on their site. http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/
- spworm, on 11/12/2009, -1/+19And with no tangible gain, because little did they know that less than 20 years later there would be much worse to come.
- spearce, on 11/12/2009, -1/+18you should read up on WWI more. Probably one of the most miserable times in our history as a species. WWII ain't got nothing on the amount of death and strife experienced by the soldiers of WWI.
I served in Afghanistan and Iraq and they were the worst experiences of my life in both terms of living conditions for extended periods of time and fear of dying at any moment.
WWI is on another level 4 times removed from current wars.
Here's a shovel. Go dig a trench in the mud in winter time Europe. The technology of death far exceeds the technology for comfort. Try to avoid the poisonous gas and falling bombs the enemy, who is 100's of yards away, is dropping on you. Run as fast as you can when your commander tells you to. There's a hole in the field a head of you. Stay low and fast as everyone around you gets mowed down by heavy machine gun fire. If you advance a few feet it is a good day.
It's absolutely terrifying.
The level of fear and discomfort are inexplicable. - Joshislong, on 11/12/2009, -1/+17Looking at these photos gave me chills. These color pictures have a sense of realism that you just don't get with black and white. Awesome submission.
- joculator, on 11/12/2009, -0/+16The death of the old world.
- Snoogs, on 11/12/2009, -0/+16Yup... the whole world was in black and white- photography hasn't actually changed... The 20's and 30's were transitional years where color started to form in nature. It started out sepia, then fully converted.
- Cubeforce, on 11/12/2009, -0/+16The scary thing is that that picture looks totally fake, but (I would presume) isn't.
- intrepidia, on 11/12/2009, -0/+14And today, remembrance day is for the newly fallen.... they could have been digg users for all we know.....truly. Lest we forget.....
- NICHOLASF, on 11/12/2009, -0/+14It's interesting to witness the level of realism color imaging brings to WWI. For some reason it makes the conflict seem all the more devastating, even if the linked images don't necessarily show violence themselves.
- Mangeof, on 11/12/2009, -0/+13Fitting for Remembrance Day 11/11
- kss42, on 11/12/2009, -0/+13Until the next one.
- wolfing, on 11/12/2009, -0/+12It's sad that most of the deaths happened trying to gain just a few feet more. Daily progress in that war usually was measured in yards, like, "today we lost 2000 men, but we gained 100 yards!" (only to retreat the same 100 yards the next day losing 2000 more men)
- Aeroboy, on 11/12/2009, -0/+11Jesus H. Christ is that real?! I've seen my share of combat footage but I have never seen a village or town completely leveled by artillery! Some buildings usually remain, there are some recognizable outlines, but that town just bloody vanished!
- sb66, on 11/12/2009, -0/+10Something tells me that either of those last 2 guys could easily kick your ass.
- akseitz, on 11/12/2009, -0/+10Very cool photos. I think there is a general perception that the World Wars were a battle of the Western world... these photos point out some extreme cultural differences.
- mstachiw, on 11/12/2009, -0/+9Somehow black & white makes photos timeless but color makes it relatable.
- mbran, on 11/12/2009, -0/+8just curious...how does this link know which specific mirror site to go to? it looks like a link to the main rorr.im page.
thanks in advance - retsiem, on 11/12/2009, -2/+10the War To End All Wars...
- laim, on 11/12/2009, -7/+13what? i thought color wasn't invented until the 30's
- mwrl, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7What a real war looks like.
- bluedostoevsky, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6I completely agree.
- blindmelon1, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7Not a good time to make such pathetic accusations buddy. Show some ***** respect, sheesh.
- FappleJacks, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6true, very true.
- cowfish234, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6Even after most of the world has been turned into nuclear ash, even after the world governments have crumbled and the social infrastructure decays into anarchy, even when, after the greatest and most horrible war of all, the human race has every reason to band together in an effort to save one another from total annihilation -- they don't.
War never changes. - brownsound00, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6And to think that I got pissed off because I couldn't connect to wireless internet today.
... jeez. - bringitontimx, on 11/12/2009, -1/+7This picture showing blood wars...
- Ghostwo, on 11/12/2009, -0/+6"The scientists yank Cole back to 2035 and doubt his claim that he was sent to the wrong year. Another try sends him way back to a French battle trench in 1918, where he's wounded, and finally to the correct month in 1996 to intercept the 12 Monkey gang."
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2955monk.html - Snoogs, on 11/12/2009, -0/+5... digging zig-zagging trenches filled with your own blood and piss.
- scrivener212, on 11/12/2009, -0/+5It should be depressing. This is the war we should be remembering--the really ugly one, not the great and shiny one. If WWI was the war that stood large in everyone's memory, I wonder if people would be in such a hurry to throw their kids into the next one, or the kids to go.
- Alheithinn, on 11/12/2009, -1/+6The day we make our leaders start leading the troops into battle again...Bush would never have invaded Afghanistan or Iraq, and Obama would have had us out of Afghanistan the day he took office.
- Loche, on 11/12/2009, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
- citizensARREST, on 11/12/2009, -0/+5nah those weren't wars. they were just large scale disagreements
- Alheithinn, on 11/12/2009, -1/+5Yes, thank you for linking this superior site.
- Syro, on 11/12/2009, -1/+5The old lie...
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