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Revealed: Britain in Color Displayed for the Very First Time

dailymail.co.uk — At the start of the 20th century, the art of photography was rather more limited - to black and white images, with various shades of gray in between. Now, for the first time ever, vivid vintage pictures of a world still largely unexplored ( in color ) were revealed to a mesmerized public.

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  • inactive, on 04/27/2008, -2/+122Wow this article is pretty decent for the Daily Mail.
  • ghm101, on 04/27/2008, -20/+98especially given the subject matter, it is spelt COLOUR, not color
  • threemagic, on 04/27/2008, -9/+81I can almost see the guy in pic 3 singing "Chim chimeny chim chim charoo"
  • smallSHEEP, on 04/27/2008, -6/+63Beautiful images, it's a shame the source is quite frankly the worst, most linguistically deprived, xenophobic *****-stain of a ‘newspaper’ ever to grace the surface of this planet. Is there any way of automatically filtering Daily Mail links as spam?
  • DifferentAngle, on 04/27/2008, -1/+56In other news, Digg is overrun with 'recognize versus recognise" and "soda versus pop" arguments. Scientists blame boring lifestyles.
  • hiro, on 04/27/2008, -3/+50Those pictures were taken in England - which is part of Britain. Where we also spell "colourless" correctly.
  • Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -1/+48Of course it doesn't, colour photography was in it's infancy and they're over 100 years old. Do you expect them to be HDR vistas?
  • miranda622, on 04/27/2008, -0/+46Those are beautiful... and I never knew you could use potatoes to colorize photographs! You learn something new every day.
  • webcrumb, on 04/27/2008, -4/+44Yes. Because Disney stereotypes are real. Like the crows in Dumbo.
  • Jholder112233, on 04/27/2008, -11/+41Well its ENGLISH language, so we'll decide the spelling thanks.
  • DifferentAngle, on 04/27/2008, -0/+26yeah, they should have been using a DSLR - cheap bastards
  • Stonekeeper, on 04/27/2008, -0/+24these pics are great. I especially like the old rustic street photos of cornwal.
  • Myztry, on 04/27/2008, -4/+25The world really was black and white back then.
    Only a few objects had begun to exhibit colour...
  • hamdevguru, on 04/27/2008, -3/+22What?!
  • TWiThead, on 04/27/2008, -0/+18Also of great interest is the ingenious process devised by Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii around 1905. He invented a means of using filters to rapidly capture three monochromatic photographs of a subject (one each for red, green and blue) on glass plates. These could then be combined to project (but not print) vivid, full-color imagery.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokudin-Gorsky

    Using modern digital technology, a project commissioned by the Library of Congress has combined these R/G/B monochromatic photographs, resulting in stunning, full-color images of 1909–1915 Russia.
    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
  • WallnutBoy, on 04/27/2008, -0/+18Diggers like you amuse me.
  • reginaldino, on 04/27/2008, -0/+18that's because there are few words,
    even the comments don't appear to have been written by morons. Amazing
  • Fozefy, on 04/27/2008, -3/+20Canada Agrees with Britain.
  • solid12345, on 04/27/2008, -12/+28Let me update these photos for you now in Britain 2008:

    Replace those marching soldiers with rampaging Muslims calling for death to Europe for insulting the prophet

    Replace those quiet empty streets with 200 cars honking and cutting each other off

    Replace the quaint little home with a ghetto apartment complex and broken windows and crackheads sitting on the porch tweaking

    Replace the respectable dressed mother and daughter with skanks in miniskirts coming out of the club hammered and puking

  • Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -4/+18Don't be stupid. Life was ***** in the old days, wars, huge deaths, poverty and disease.
    Don't kid yourself, we have it good.
  • pezoamo, on 04/27/2008, -1/+15That is the most ironic statement I've read all week
  • Flunk, on 04/27/2008, -1/+15Dramatise much?
  • Lynxpro, on 04/27/2008, -0/+14...but can you see The Doctor in any of the pics?
  • ff2k, on 04/27/2008, -0/+13I couldn't agree with you more.
  • jbrowng, on 04/27/2008, -2/+14Please lets not get into this REALLY pointless (and impossible to end) argument.
    More interestingly was that it's an article about Britain, and it does seem rather odd that its spelt without the 'u'. It would suggest the submitter was from outside the UK, and in which case, why on earth are you reading the Daily Mail?! I'd not touch that comic with a 10ft pole (pardon the cliché).
  • ihazstatus, on 04/27/2008, -0/+12I think I can see Grandpa Joe and Charlie in the fourth picture down!
  • Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -1/+13What? We're surrounded by countryside. Even in a city it's not that hard to see some, I can see some from my window now and I don't even live in a rural area.
  • Musicmonkey34, on 04/27/2008, -0/+11in light of volcane's correction, i still agree with your main point.
  • waydee, on 04/27/2008, -1/+12First thing my American friend commented on when he arrived in Scotland - "Wow, it's so green!"
  • Ramble, on 04/27/2008, -0/+10It's a one off believe me.
  • Chrispyc1211, on 04/27/2008, -1/+11My mind has officially been blown.
  • mahsah, on 04/27/2008, -2/+12Isn't progress swell?
  • threepio, on 04/27/2008, -0/+9Clean, with ***** running through the gutters in the streets, offal tosed out of windows (hence the term toss pot) and a lack of a public garbage removal service?

    Let's just say that the photos are lacking some of the details that made life less palatable back then.
  • djm101, on 04/27/2008, -0/+9From a comment: "I too enjoyed this story, makes a change from reading about bad things. -Annie, Birmingham"
    I would suggest to Annie that she stopped reading the Daily Mail.
  • dtele, on 04/27/2008, -3/+12Amazing.
    I expect those were 8 x 10 contact prints ? Anyone ?
  • threepio, on 04/27/2008, -3/+12You forgot to add the network of CCTV cameras everywhere.
  • Klarth, on 04/27/2008, -1/+10Yes, just you.

    Because some of us actually live here and perceive the UK as an actual place rather than something from a film.
  • dullnation, on 04/27/2008, -3/+11Too many people look back at the past, while wearing rose tinted glasses.
  • Myztry, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8It is easy to spot a photo taken in the 70's. The just have this weird hue about them. It's not simply fading as they looked that way when I was a kid too.
  • altinnovation, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7WOW! A troll.
  • mattr12345, on 04/27/2008, -11/+18Somehow the colour doesn't have the same depth as modern photos. It still doesn't quite seem real. Amazing, nonetheless.
  • tumples, on 04/27/2008, -2/+9Argh get out! That isn't a cockney accent.

    *vomits everywhere*
  • allywilson, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7"Or the leprechauns?" ...oh dear lord. That would be Ireland.
  • Volcane, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6The point is they were COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS, not colored after the fact using a manual process.
  • crazyhorse13, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6Wow. Putting yourself in someone's shoes is a bad thing?
  • inactive, on 09/04/2008, -0/+6thanks for making them that much better
  • Angostura, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7My word, we've been visited by a real life Daily Fail reader.
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