Amazing photos

[BillyStubbsTears]

Old historical photos that have been "colourised". It's breathtaking seeing Mao and Hitler and Stalin, and scenes from WWI and II come to life with colour.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22155693@N04/albums

[Glyn_Wigley]

The Jean Harlow ones are stunning.

[Not Now Kato]

Just before the outbreak of WW2 my Mum used to work for a photographer.  One of her jobs was hand colouring B&W photographs, she even did one of her own wedding.  It's an amazing and incredible technique as your link clearly shows BST.  Thanks for posting it. 

[ravenrover]

http://babelcolour.com/ww1/
Here's another one for ww1
He also does twitter with some stunning photos of London from over 150 years ago

[River Don]

http://babelcolour.com/ww1/
Here's another one for ww1
He also does twitter with some stunning photos of London from over 150 years ago

Some French soldiers still wearing scarlet red trousers during WW1 there. Surprising the lesson of camouflage still hadn't been fully learned.

[Not Now Kato]

http://babelcolour.com/ww1/
Here's another one for ww1
He also does twitter with some stunning photos of London from over 150 years ago

Some French soldiers still wearing scarlet red trousers during WW1 there. Surprising the lesson of camouflage still hadn't been fully learned.

Camouflage was completely pointless when you went over the top and walked towards your enemy.

[Glyn_Wigley]

http://babelcolour.com/ww1/
Here's another one for ww1
He also does twitter with some stunning photos of London from over 150 years ago

Some French soldiers still wearing scarlet red trousers during WW1 there. Surprising the lesson of camouflage still hadn't been fully learned.

Camouflage was completely pointless when you went over the top and walked towards your enemy.

Red matched very quickly when they did so too.

[River Don]

http://babelcolour.com/ww1/
Here's another one for ww1
He also does twitter with some stunning photos of London from over 150 years ago

Some French soldiers still wearing scarlet red trousers during WW1 there. Surprising the lesson of camouflage still hadn't been fully learned.

Camouflage was completely pointless when you went over the top and walked towards your enemy.

Still, I think if I were walking towards machine guns, I'd rather not be wearing bright red trousers!

[selby]

  RR, are there any good old statues in the London photo's in those films?

[idler]

http://babelcolour.com/ww1/
Here's another one for ww1
He also does twitter with some stunning photos of London from over 150 years ago

Some French soldiers still wearing scarlet red trousers during WW1 there. Surprising the lesson of camouflage still hadn't been fully learned.

I'd have preferred brown.
My grandad was killed early on the first morning of the Battle of the Somme.  What a waste, he left a wife and four kids and didn't need to go. He was a miner at Brodsworth so didn't need to sign up.
 
Camouflage was completely pointless when you went over the top and walked towards your enemy.

Still, I think if I were walking towards machine guns, I'd rather not be wearing bright red trousers!

[ravenrover]

Selby the ones on twitter are mainly street scenes of Old London and views of the city usually in black and white but amazingly some in colour even back then

[Not Now Kato]

http://babelcolour.com/ww1/
Here's another one for ww1
He also does twitter with some stunning photos of London from over 150 years ago

Some French soldiers still wearing scarlet red trousers during WW1 there. Surprising the lesson of camouflage still hadn't been fully learned.

Camouflage was completely pointless when you went over the top and walked towards your enemy.

Still, I think if I were walking towards machine guns, I'd rather not be wearing bright red trousers!

The way machine guns were deployed in WW1 it really wouldn't have mattered if you were wearing a full tunic of Red, White and Blue with Pink spots on!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B06izR0HWyc
 
https://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/machineguns.htm
 

[Sprotyrover]

http://babelcolour.com/ww1/
Here's another one for ww1
He also does twitter with some stunning photos of London from over 150 years ago

Some French soldiers still wearing scarlet red trousers during WW1 there. Surprising the lesson of camouflage still hadn't been fully learned.

Most Armies wore traditional uniform at the outbreak, The kaiser even ordered his beloved 17th Braunsweiger Husaren to wear their Black uniform and Skull and Bone bedecked Headgear when they led the advance into Belgium.The reason why the British Army was in Khaki was due to the lessons learnt in the First Boer War!
The Old Contempibles stopped the Germans in their tracks at Mons,
. The Germans mainly conscripts advanced en mass as if going to a footie Match The British were under cover and due to the lessons learnt in the Boer Wars were all good shots having 300 rounds a year to practise with.
The Germans etc got 30. The Germans even thought they were being slaughtered by Machine gun fire.

[River Don]

Interesting. I thought I'd look it up, khaki was first worn by the Corp of Guides on the NW frontier in 1846. Khaki being the Urdu word for dust.

It took it a good long while to catch on.

The colour the British wore out the outset of WWI was reffered to as khaki but the actual colour was not khaki. It was a darker green/brown colour better suited the European landscape which became known as olive drab.