Some really nice colorized pictures of WW1. Really brings the conflict to life in a way I had never appreciated before.
It’s kind of weird viewing WW I in color. Some really interesting pics on there. Cool bi-plane and railgun. Someone went to a lot of work restoring those photos. Thanks for sharing.
It is pretty weird seeing pics and vids in colour. If you want to see some stunning video…
The CBC (Canadian Brodcasting Corporation) our version of BBC, for those not in the know, have put together a documentary.
"A three-part series telling the compelling story of Canada during the Second World War through the exclusive use of newly discovered colour footage at war and at home.
The director and a dedicated team of researchers set out on an unprecedented quest for footage from home movies sitting in people’s basements to actual training footage.
Watch the regiment’s travel by train across Canada and all the townspeople heading down to the station to see them off. See factory workers in Manitoba make everything from uniforms to canned pork products to ship overseas. Witness home movies of Germany before the war and the brutality of the blitz. These are rarely seen moments that will help a new generation understand the sacrifice made by Canadians at home and at war. "
http://www.cbcshop.ca/CBC/shopping/product.aspx?Product_ID=ETDOC00099&Variant_ID=5329D&lang=en-CA
Very cool, I have been reading a book on WW1 with lots of B/W photos, seeing color photos gives many ideas for dioramas.
Ditto about the Dioramas. Ideas flooded my noggin with each photo. Thank you very much for sharing with us. I just wish I knew the stories behind the pics. The imagination swoons with thought.
Thankfully yours,
Ryan
Thanks Shane! Very compelling pictures. Semper Fi, mike
Wow, those are the first pics from WWI I have seen colorized- and they are some of the best colorized pictures I have ever seen. Some of them actually looked like they were originally in color. For those of ou who like fiction and WWI, I strongly recommend Jeff Shaara’s new book “To the Last Man”. I just finished it and it is fantastic
It is very cool, yet very sad. We have forgotten for all practical purposes what the past really was like, I know, that we here, will never really capture it(this may be speculated) by using our talents with this hobby, but to see no man’s land in vivid color(ok dry browns) but to see the lines, and what they must have endured on a daily basis really brings it home, that the past is really past, and that was a different time, a different culture even, although we are derived from it. Who knows, i may be rambling, but the history channel also carriers ww1 in color in a documentary series, I saw an episode, and it was just tragic. But what ever, just as long as we remember Tigerman’s R.E. Lee quote in his sig. Because if we forget, then what did they sacrifice, that was shown in those pictures?
If you read the caption, those are COLOR photos, not colorized photos.
Amazing photos!
Really? I misread it and thought it was colorized. I did not realize that they had color photography back then. The pics of the destroyed buildings are particularly striking