man the color really makes it a lot more real and connected to our current time
All those Germans look so miserable. The aftermath of the war looks gloomy even in color
Christ those flyover shots at the end.
Armageddon doesn't have shit on that.
Now we need footage of Japan post-war.
um excuse me color didn't exist until the 1970's, the world was literally in black and white before then. this film is obviously a lie.
though on a more serious note I absolutely love old color footage and photographs. There was this guy in 1907ish who went around Russia taking early color photos, really cool stuff.
Fucking crazy on those aerial shots. No building had a intact roof. Shit makes you wonder how the hell did civilians live if they didn't leave the city.
one thing i found striking about that footage was the lack of young german men. nearly all the footage shows old men, women, and children.
[QUOTE=BCell;47664788]All those Germans look so miserable. The aftermath of the war looks gloomy even in color[/QUOTE]
Hey, I'd be pretty bummed out too if my way of life that was created during my childhood and was suddenly destroyed in every possible way when I am an adult. Not to mention that I may have received revelation that my society advocated sticking people into ovens and I witnessed two of my country's sworn enemies walking around the capital city (or what's left of it.)
This is a really interesting video of footage from Berlin from around 1900 or so (pretty much from what I can tell it's all pre-WWI).
Makes for an interesting comparison.
[video=youtube;C1IGNLg-RSU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1IGNLg-RSU[/video]
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We need another Hitler
[QUOTE=God of Ashes;47667128]one thing i found striking about that footage was the lack of young german men. nearly all the footage shows old men, women, and children.[/QUOTE]
so were they all dead or elsewhere
That's fucking incredible, I've never seen anything like that. The sheer scale of destruction is immense, almost no buildings went untouched, it looks like. Especially in that end shot.
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I'm reminded that a few months ago in one of my history classes we had a guest speaker who was an old German man who had been 14 or so at the time of Berlin's fall, and putting this imagery together with what he told us is really moving.
[QUOTE=bdd458;47667462]This is a really interesting video of footage from Berlin from around 1900 or so (pretty much from what I can tell it's all pre-WWI).
Makes for an interesting comparison.
[video=youtube;C1IGNLg-RSU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1IGNLg-RSU[/video][/QUOTE]
This is that 'hand-painted' method that looks really fake... still, it's so weird seeing those people, not knowing what's coming up.
I guess it's kinda similar to the optimism people had in 1999-2000.
[QUOTE=bdd458;47665351]um excuse me color didn't exist until the 1970's, the world was literally in black and white before then. this film is obviously a lie.
though on a more serious note I absolutely love old color footage and photographs. There was this guy in 1907ish who went around Russia taking early color photos, really cool stuff.[/QUOTE]
It was called [URL="https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157606226772243/"]Autochrome[/URL].
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[QUOTE=Zuimzado;47667787]This is that 'hand-painted' method that looks really fake... still, it's so weird seeing those people, not knowing what's coming up.
I guess it's kinda similar to the optimism people had in 1999-2000.[/QUOTE]
The method is simply referred to as "colorizing". It takes a long-ass time and the results are usually only okay
[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;47667847]It was called [URL="https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/sets/72157606226772243/"]Autochrome[/URL].
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The method is simply referred to as "colorizing". It takes a long-ass time and the results are usually only okay[/QUOTE]
What [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#The_three-color_principle"]Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky [/URL]did was different from Autochrome. What he did was take 3 seperate photographs, each through a different colored filter (One Red, one Green, one Blue).
Some examples of his work, where there was movement you can see the 3 different colors.
[t]http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prokudin-5.jpg[/t]
[t]http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prokudin-18.jpg[/t]
[t]http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prokudin-20.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=bdd458;47667903]What [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#The_three-color_principle"]Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky [/URL]did was different from Autochrome. What he did was take 3 seperate photographs, each through a different colored filter (One Red, one Green, one Blue).
Some examples of his work, where there was movement you can see the 3 different colors.
[t]http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prokudin-5.jpg[/t]
[t]http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prokudin-18.jpg[/t]
[t]http://admin.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prokudin-20.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Oh wow, I've always wondered if anyone ever did that. So he basically did the Technicolor process with still images?
[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;47667921]Oh wow, I've always wondered if anyone ever did that. So he basically did the Technicolor process with still images?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, essentially. From the bit of reading I've done on Wikipedia on the process, it was introduced in the 1850's or 1860's, but the camera technology at the time wasn't viable for such a process. Gorsky wasn't the first to use it, but he sure did make good use of the process when the Czar gave him the funds for his project. Between 1907 and 1915 he took a lot of photos of life in Russia.
It's pretty cool to see all the different ways people tried to make pictures and such in color, even back then.
Also, his entire collection is available to view on the Library of Congress's website: [url]http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/[/url]
Its crazy to realize that most of these buildings were MG-nests or other firing positions 2 months before this was shot.
[QUOTE=counterpo0;47665833]Fucking crazy on those aerial shots. No building had a intact roof. Shit makes you wonder how the hell did civilians live if they didn't leave the city.[/QUOTE]
cellars
Honestly it doesn't look half as war-torn as I expected it to be.
[QUOTE=bdd458;47665351]um excuse me color didn't exist until the 1970's, the world was literally in black and white before then. this film is obviously a lie.
though on a more serious note I absolutely love old color footage and photographs. There was this guy in 1907ish who went around Russia taking early color photos, really cool stuff.[/QUOTE]
actually, it did, but nazi Germany was so evil that it literally was black and white'
when the war ended, Germany became saturated with color.
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[QUOTE=God of Ashes;47667128]one thing i found striking about that footage was the lack of young german men. nearly all the footage shows old men, women, and children.[/QUOTE]
That is an extremely grim observation
Since you guys love coloured footage, I highly recommend this documentary. Really good commentary, and alot of effort put into this huge documentary. My all time favourite.
[video=youtube;6t6IKwHpdIQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t6IKwHpdIQ[/video]
Here, might as well toss this in since we're doing the whole color thing. Mind the music.
[video=youtube;CErUTpuDbd8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErUTpuDbd8[/video]
The soldier who raises his pickelhaube at 1:47 and the saluting soldier at 6:03 always get me. It just fascinates me, here they are fighting a war around one hundred years ago and they don't even have the slightest clue that they salute thousands of people even long after they are dead. I dunno', I just find something moving about that, maybe it's just the fact that they are the most animated people in the clips, the most "real." What I think it is though, is the fact that they have managed to leave their mark and essentially immortalize themselves, all while existing during a time which is difficult to today imagine or fully comprehend.
There's a couple good colorized WWI documentaries: WWI in Color and Apocalypse: WWI.
You can find WWI in Color on Youtube, here's the first episode.
[video=youtube;U_BHhOAOLH4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_BHhOAOLH4[/video]
(Ignore the intro the that the uploader added, starts at 1:40).
God the soviets destroyed the fuck out of berlin
The soviets tried to destroy Everything that Hitler/the germans built up.
Poland is a good example, Hitler modernised their industries and built it up to a more (german standard) the russians plowed Everything to shit.
My grandfather was a paratrooper stationed in occupied West Berlin for two tour seasons (1953-1957) in the British Sector, he said it still looked bombed out to shit, and the locals spat at his feet when he walked by.
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