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Dominique De Bast
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posted December 29, 2015 03:40 PM

Il doesn't look so old in colour, it is impressive. The webpage is in French but you don't need to understand this beautiful language to enjoy the pictures :-)
http://www.toolito.com/voyage/rares-photos-couleurs-paris/?utm_content=e8d96&utm_source=OutbrainFilm&utm_medium=referral&utm_term=5455151

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Steve Klare
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posted December 29, 2015 06:22 PM

That's a lesson of History:

The past isn't as different as we think (-or we hope.)

There's a series on the History Channel called "WW2 in Color"

(The color is our old friend Kodachrome, I bet.)

After a lifetime seeing it in Black and White It's quite an eyeful.

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Janice Glesser
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posted December 29, 2015 06:37 PM

Beautiful color photos Dominque [Smile]

Loved them. I see the Moulin Rouge windmill WAS red.

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Paul Suchy
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posted December 29, 2015 07:31 PM

Thanks for sharing, Dominique. Beautiful colors and amazing expressions from the people in the photographs. At the risk of sounding shallow, I have a sudden urge to watch "Gigi" now.

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Brian Fretwell
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posted December 30, 2015 04:54 AM

Some of the WWII footage may be colorised, we had that for "WWI in Colour" here. Anything from the German side would be early Agfacolour.

I have to look up the autochrome process the Paris pictures used, I suspect it may have been like Dufaycolor.

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James Wilson
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posted December 30, 2015 06:54 AM

I don`t know whats wrong with mine everytime I get the first picture come up I get an ad blocker cover it up.

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Simon Balderston
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posted December 30, 2015 10:18 AM

well pressed certainly brings the past back to life thanks for sharing [Razz]

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Osi Osgood
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posted December 30, 2015 12:07 PM

It looks like at least a few of them are colorized black and white pictures, but most aren't. I'm always fascinated with early color photography, as you're seeing a world in living color which you'd never be able to see and the earlier, the more fascinating ...

Early Technicolor film tests ... 1922

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_RTnd3Smy8

Another one, with some repeated footage ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N04j18IjbHg

But here's the really FAROUT first three strip color made, and it wasn't by Technicolor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53kN4t0MRa0

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Dominique De Bast
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posted December 30, 2015 01:51 PM

thanks for your links, Ossi. None of the pictures of Paris is colorized. They were are taken with the autochrome system. A rich banker, Albert Kahn, sent photographers in different cities to make colour pictures. Paris is one of these cities and the pictures given in my link are a few among the 72,000 (he was probably very rich) ones taken.

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Brian Fretwell
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posted December 30, 2015 03:51 PM

Checking it out Autochrome was a system using 3-coloured potato starch grains affixed to the film (or glass plate) base which then had a panchromatic B&W emulsion layered on top. The film was exposed through the base and reversal processed. This gave a very good, but dark image.
I as I part remembered very similar to the later Dufaycolour system which used a three colour printed grid to the same effect.

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Osi Osgood
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posted December 31, 2015 11:17 AM

Thanks for that info, there must just be some "color bleed' that makes it look like it was colorized. Very artistic choices in the pictures, by the way, everything from big events to a passed out drunk!

The very sad thing about that very first three strip or dye Technicolor films (films) was that the man who invented it, was never able to perfect the projection equipment to actually see if his experiment was a success. Only modern technology allowed us to see that Eastman Technicolor, was not the first full color film. This fellow beat them by almost 20 years!

Now, the Technicolor process was the first successfully marketed and used process to be sure.

... and in my opinion, (and a lot of other people), still, to this day, the most accurate rendering of color on film.

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