Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

[djordan]

http://forums.nonewbs.com/showthread.php?t=42556

[slickdtc]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

That's pretty crazy.

Seeing it now, it made me realize that I every thought about the old days is in black and white. It's like those times were actually in black and white and then in more modern times we all changed to color. haha

[djordan]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

That's pretty crazy.

Seeing it now, it made me realize that I every thought about the old days is in black and white. It's like those times were actually in black and white and then in more modern times we all changed to color. haha

LOL exactly man...

[SPTO]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

Wow some great stuff.

slickdtc I know what you mean about thinking the old days were in black and white, sometimes I think that way. I remember a long while ago I saw some movies and pictures of Nazi Germany in color and that really freaked me out.

[Cyros]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

Must say there is something shocking about seeing color photos from that time period.

[ezekiel55]

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That World's Fair picture is crazy...I remember seeing B&W pics from CHicago's in 1893 and just wanting to see it in color because of the amazing structures thery built.

TBH though, I feel the color takes away from the emotion and aura that B&W brings.

[daflyboys]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

That World's Fair picture is crazy...I remember seeing B&W pics from CHicago's in 1893 and just wanting to see it in color because of the amazing structures thery built.

TBH though, I feel the color takes away from the emotion and aura that B&W brings.

Agreed. Anyone else wanna beat up Ted Turner with me??!!

Those were some great shots...thx.

[sb24]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

So whats the thought on these pics? Them seem so real.
im guessing photoshoped to ENHANCE the colors? Dont get me wrong i dont think these are fake and they really mkae me look at the past different but they seem to good. Since i know NOTHING about photo editing im not going to assume anything. Some just look so prestine.

[daflyboys]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

Photoshop to that level of detail would take some doing. There's an explanation there of the type of film they used. It's on the internet, so it must be true.

[Stumbleweed]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

There's no photoshop -- the pictures aren't ultra-crisp except for the black and white one...

And yeah, great post -- I already went and shared these on the other board that I frequent. Amazing stuff... the creepy guys at the OK dance are making me giggle.

[sb24]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

Photoshop to that level of detail would take some doing. There's an explanation there of the type of film they used. It's on the internet, so it must be true.

Lol. Ya im just surprissed we dont have more if we have ones like these in high quality.

Reminds me of the time i turned on the tv (left on a movie channel) and was watching a show/documentry about porn in the 1920's. Very odd and distrubing to some degree. Very shocked to see porn in black and white and doing things people during that time would NEVER do. I wouldnt have watched it except it just showed me how much i dont know about our past and only the good things are talked about. It was talking about big movie stars in bad films that are not on their list of movies done. Kinda one of those things we tried to sweep under the rug thing. Now that i kno i NEVER doubt what was being done behind closed doors at any point during history.

Kinda off topic but looking at these color picks put new light on the time, kinda like that documentry did to me. So it wasnt completly irrevelent. Believe me i feel dumb talking about porn in the 20's.

Some of those pictures really made me realize just how much we think the world before us was in black and white

And i didnt think it was photoshoped, i wanted people who know better to tell me before i believe the hype. People are always trying to claim things to be fake. Not that i ever believe anything 100%

[Joey P]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

Amazing.

Mind opening...

[Stumbleweed]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

Here are some REALLY old ones from WWI taken primarily by the French military... the French were the ones who first developed color photography. Lots of cool pics here: http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/index.html



Love the guy with the beard in this one...

[av7]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s



Crazy seeing all those classics parked together



Love this one.

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/boundforglory/glory-exhibit.html

Some other pics from 1939-1943

[WDOgF0reL1fe]

Re: Color photos from the 1930s and 1940s

There are just some fantastic pictures there. Great post