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Originally Posted by oliver9184
Nice find Bobby. Admirers might also appreciate the following - very early colour footage of London from 1927 with wry intertitles.
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Thats amazing. I really am fascinated by the use of color film before it was the standard choice. Since so much early film and photography is in B&W it's really hard to connect with, almost to the point that you feel like your looking at an alien world (Am I the only one who pictures history in B&W?). Without any context, and completely ignoring the fashion and technology, the above movie looks like it could have been filmed in 1977...and somehow (in my tired state I simply can't articulate this properly) I feel more connected with it...in other words it doesn't look like a dream.
Okay that made no sense so instead I'll just write, cool move!!!! <--- thats probably I should be writing right now.
Incidently that reminded a lot of the WWI color pics that seemed to be making the rounds a few years ago...put the era in a whole new perspective for me.
Here's a link if any one hasn't seen them
World War One Color Photos - Color Photos from World War I
Actually that made me think of another awesome link, the early 20th century photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii...honestly these look like they were taken last week on a high end digital camera, only most are from around 1910, astounding!
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition)
Just navigate through the menu and you'll get all the pics.