Here's some old colour photos of London from 1949.I wish Picadilly Circus still looked this way...
>>75569>>75570>>75571oh man.. they had colored cameras back then?looking at these pics, i feel kinda weird :D ain't used to colored pictures + before 1950
>>75575Color photography has been around since the 1860's, but it wasn't practical until the 1910's.
and it wasn't in wide spread use untill the 1960's because of cost. There is Color pics and film footage from WWII out there.
This is quite possibly the best thread ever. I'll give anyone two hundred internets if we can get more of the older era /hr/ color photographs.This is just way, way too cool.
wow... those are nice pics... I love the cars and the old double decker buses. thanks so much for sharing them.regarding WWII colour pics - I've seen a couple History Channel programmes that featured colour pics and film... it was kind of weird to see b'cuz we're so used to seeing everything from that period in B&W...
These remind me of Fallout 2's New Reno area for some reason.
>>75588second these are some good pictures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:London_%2C_Kodachrome_by_Chalmers_Butterfield.jpg
Hmmm..>>75588check this site out. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/This russian photographer was AWESOME.Photos taken between 1905 and 1915 . They are so brilliant and vivid..
>>75611>>it was kind of weird to see b'cuz we're so used to seeing everything from that period in B&W...that's my point :Dsuddenly, they feel so real :p
"I wish Picadilly Circus still looked this way..."If you squint during a power cut, it does.
Wow, that Russian method of getting colour photographs is pretty genius. Shame it means nothing can move though.
>>75673Thanks I was hoping that site would get posted in this thread I had lost the link. =)
This reminds me of that Calvin and Hobbes strip, where Calvin's dad insists that old photos are in black and white because the world used to be in black and white :')These photos are jawesome btw.
bump for cool shit
>>75673Prokudin-Gorskii? He was amazing.. no, awesome.
MOAR of New York, back when Jews openly ruled the streets.Ah, Once Upon a Time of America...
>>75673Awesome. You win a gajillion internets. Now, for more high-rez stuff, 'cause using these as backgrounds is awesome.
Sadly, those are almost the only ones of london by the same person, there are some of the US that are great though.http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Sba2&namespace=6
Ooh, cool.
This would make an awesome background. Slight change in subject though.