Color Photos from WWI

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darthfoley

Active member
I had never seen any before and found them fascinating.

*edit* removed potential nasty link. See below for clean links!
 
Fizl

Fizl

Secret Crocodile
Just to warn peeps that the page linked above tried to install blooming gator! (At least on my machine). I saw the first pic before I closed it down, and it did look very interesting.

Can anyone show the actual piccies?

Shaz
 
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tidoco2222

Active member
My interest is both the world wars but to see colour photos from WW1 is rare indeed.
I have a book called WW1 in colour which was published to backup a tv series of the same name.
These pics were coloured over black and white photos for the most part.
Still very interesting though.
 
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minimaker

New member
Can anyone show the actual piccies?
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They are from a French photo archive:
http://www.mediatheque-patrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/fr/archives_photo/visites_guidees/autochromes.html
They were discussed a while ago on another forum on tanks and warfare. There are more in this archive.

Just in case you don\'t know French: click one of the subjects under \"accès au images\" to open a subwindow. There you can click the eye-symbol to see a pic. No thumbnails unfortunately. It\'s not just war pics by the way. Also other pics from that era.

I checked on a photo site and colour photography has been around since 1904. The proces was pretty difficult and therefore in limited use.

Some other links for b/w pics:
http://www.battlefield-tours.com/
http://www.geocities.com/welver2000/FotoalbumStartseite.htm
http://www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/warpictures/index.html

Good you guys reminded mee. One of the 1listsculpting guys is doing a Lovecraftian WW1 soldier so I\'ll send him the links too.
 
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darthfoley

Active member
Sorry about the Gator, Shaz! I didn\'t have that issue. *begs forgiveness*

Thanks for providing a more direct link, minimaker!
 
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finn17

New member
Thanks Darth...mate..

Bit of poison with that link I suspect. I shut it down when my warning lights started flashing...Still gonna run PestPatrol though..

Happens to the best of us...;)

Find another route and let us know..:D

*EDIT* Sheeeet! Wish I had read the whole thread...I could have deleted...but....part of the strength of CMON is that we know we are all grippers at heartlol
 
Fizl

Fizl

Secret Crocodile
No worries, Darth, you are forgiven!

The other links were wonderful, it was really nice to see those colour pictures.

Shaz
 
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Nelson

New member
Yeah, it was cool to see some colour pictures...It really brings the war home. At least for me, and probably most of my generation, WW1 and even WWII don\'t have the same impact, as the majority of pictures aren\'t colour. It\'s harder to identify with them in black and white. As soon as I see WWI or II pictures in colour, it makes it a lot more real, as sad as it is to say.
 
Sand Rat

Sand Rat

New member
Interesting link there Darth. I\'d seen some colored shots, and have even seen some hand colored shots from the Spainish American War - but not that many from WWI.
 
ipaintminis

ipaintminis

Active member
i thought that was awesome as well!
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LavronYor

Member
incredible

As the 40K bible starts out,

In the grim future, there is only war.

If man doesn\'t learn from those pics, he may be doomed to that future. Those were indeed some incredible pics. And to think, we used to sing London Bridge is falling down. Those cathedrals looked like some serious architecture, but the bombs got them anyway.
Makes me think of our first view of Ground Zero in NYC, and my 7 year old daughter asked, \" Why do they hate us?\"
A hundred years and what have we learned?
 
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