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- aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Down already.
I managed to grab a few of them:
http://www.apluspl.us/db_sap01_ca000500_p3.jpg
http://www.apluspl.us/db_sap01_ca000501_p3.jpg
http://www.apluspl.us/db_sap01_ca000507_p3.jpg
http://www.apluspl.us/db_sap01_ca000543_p3.jpg
http://www.apluspl.us/db_sap01_ca000584_p3.jpg
http://www.apluspl.us/db_sap01_ca000608_p3.jpg - maxomo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27It was not photoshopped or coloured... the pictures were taken with colour film.
- kenz0r, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24@kahuna
NO
At that time there was a vast amount of innovation taking place in the field of photography and cinematography, OF COURSE the French had color because, hell, they INVENTED photography and cinematography. LIKEWISE, it is easy to tell the difference between colorized and original color images. And no, all wars since WWI had color photography with mainly the use of KODACHROME film or an equivalent. So in a nutshell, I am sorry but what you speak of is incorrect.
Oh and by the way, RTFM, it states the LUMIERE brothers successfully developed a color print in 1907. - kee440, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17http://www.duggmirror.com/technology/World_War_I:_In_Living_Color/
- pshultz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16from wikipedia:
Color photography was explored throughout the 1800s. The first permanent color photo was taken in 1861 by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
That would be about 53 years BEFORE WWI. - toddbu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I got kind of creeped out when I first saw color film of WWII because virtually everything shown in the past was B/W. Now that I've seen quite a bit of footage (true color, btw), it seems more natural to me. But whether it's color or black-and-white, the heroism of these folks remains the same.
- blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Not for me, so I will digg it. Don't tell members what they can and can't do.
- m00nmaster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Hey, this is a first time seeing this for most of us. STFU.
- ynggrsshppr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Thanks.
Is it just me or do the French uniforms scream "Hey look at me! I'm over here! Please shoot me!"? - thebigkahuna, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10there was a program that coloured black and white photos.
http://www.recolored.com/download.php
its free and fun to play around with but in all honesty who the hell in there normal lives has a practical application for this? - heymark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The next big thing is moving pictures.
- nathanntg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9That looks just like this open source codethat uses matlab and scribbles to colorize photos and video:
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/
(really impressive samples)
Except it has been packaged for profit...always a sad state of affairs. - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7As Digg grows you'll keep seeing this story over and over, for there are a significant number of new people whenever this story comes around again. When the time comes that this story is no longer dugg, that will mean that digg is stagnating or even dying...
There really is no good answer for that except perhaps to come up with a top-20 most dugg stories meta-post and try to get that dugg once a month. Otherwise, it's just one story - ignore it. - aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wow, I don't think I've ever seen color photographs from WWI... this is really neat. After awhile, it's hard not to imagine the past in black & white because those are the only images which seem to remain.
- djkritikal, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Yep!
http://digg.com/links/Color_World_War_I_photos_(must_see_) - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"stop been heaters?"
- tlink211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thank You for that effort.
- riscpilot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I agree 100% , new for me, so I'll digg it.
- dep01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3See this site also:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Isn't it eerie how much color brings life to photos. Suddenly faces aren't gray like death, but colored or flush like life. It really makes you feel like you're observing the past as it was. It makes you wonder what the next big step in photography will be (digital doesn't really count, imo, as it's just a rehash, really, of film photograph).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3hey i could have just said "DUPE" and moved along, but i decided to add some relevant information to the discussion since i figured people hadn't seen this story. but seriously, all the submitter had to do was search "world war 1 color" and they would have seen that this story had already been submitted. the duplicate story function built into the digg submission area probably found this story. posting obviously duplicate stories is not what digg needs regardless of whether it's "new" news.. which is why i suggested that this story be buried or flagged as old.
- ScottMitchell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These pictures really showcase what modern artillery is capable of doing. Such widespread destruction was not possible in the 19th century battles. Ditto with the necessity for trenches and the advent of the machine gun.
- kdehead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the bbc documentary "the lost world of friese-green" is about moving color film of England taken in the early 1920s.
you can view clips of these films here :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/openroad/launch.shtml - crazyman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is amazingly old.
- crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4alas, it wasn't digg-capable
- sosuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I read about this over on damn interesting
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=245
the process involved taking 3 b&w photos through colored lenses or something like that, reminds me of astronomy photos
"Each three-image series captured by the camera stored all of the color information onto the black and white plates; all they lacked was actual tint, which the color filters on the projector restored." - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't believe it, everyone knows the world was black and white until the '50s, like in the movie "Pleasantville".
- djkritikal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Photoshop or not, it does still look cool. And if it is a photoshop, it's a damn good one.
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The french had primarily blue uniforms in ww1 and often wore red pants with them (pantalon rouge), a sign of élan. Camouflage was widely regarded as a chicken-***** tactic, at least early on. They mostly got over that misconception after a few engagements.
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hitler was a colorful, charismatic megalomaniac. Why are you surprised?
- 1967mustangman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Have you ever seen the color movie of Hittler. I was so used to seeing him in black and white that the first time I saw him in color it sent shivers down my spine
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just took a virtual dump in your favorite hat.
have a nice day! - Ansible, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Thanks for the info. Dugg!
- Lionhart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'd digg it if I hadn't all ready dugg it numerous times in the past.
- VipeNess, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2dugg
- captainmarvel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How can you possibly make a joke that a) capitalizes on what everyone is thinking because it's the most obvious possible response to this kind of thing and b) that at least 3 people on this THREAD have already made? I bury your comment for unoriginality!
- bussche, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I really enjoyed this digg. As others have said, the color photos make the subjects look real.
- thebigkahuna, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4they dont want to admit its a repost and they definitely dont want to know that its been colourized.....LA-LA-LA-LA-LA I AM NOT LISTENING!!
- alphacorvus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2^^
Indeed. The first color film that was commercially available was Autochrome Lumière, which appeared in 1907. This is obviously French in origin, which lends to the credibility of the French providing much of that war's color photography. - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another good site with photos of this most brutal war: http://www.greatwar.nl/
The Green Fields Of France is a good song about it: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/97396/ - thebigkahuna, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4it doesnt matter if its a respost to most of these people becasue if they havent seen the post its new to them
- TheCookieMaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If they were done in photoshop then whoever did them went to a lot of wasted effort. look at the sky in those pictures if you are going to colorize something then why would you want to go to the effort of making a bunch of red and green dots all over a blue sky.
- AlanLivingston, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9@ynggrsshppr
That's because in the pictures, you're seeing the uniforms from the side or the front. But if you were to see the uniforms as the enemy mostly saw them, looking upon the back of the soldier as he flees, you'd find that the uniforms are almost invisible! - VAXcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 I heard talkies are on the way, but I don't believe it.
- nbx909, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2acually in the old days you'd take a black and white picture then you'd get it colorized by an artist. My parents have some colorized pictures that their parents gave them.
- mbwilliamson, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4It would be interesting to see if they used a particular process to automate the colorization or if they were photoshopped. Nevertheless, this is very neat.
- AdverseEntropy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@thebigkahuna - If, for example, you have a bunch of black and white non-digital photographs laying around, and you want to color them quickly. There's one.
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yes, but Memorial Day is coming up. Might as well cut them some slack this time, eh?
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1cute.
- m00nmaster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4No. Maybe if it linked to the page I'm trying to reach.
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