WWII in color

[olyinaz]

I've seen some of these, but not all so I thought I'd post this collection for you to enjoy if you like:

http://pavelkosenko.wordpress.com/2012/ ... dachromes/

Cheers,
Oly

[Blaine]

It's a most excellent series...some or all of them are on NetFlix....

[old06]

Simply riveting to watch the heroes of the greatest generation . Watching some of them I get something in my eye.

thanks for the link

[gak]

Great photos. We (or I) forget sometimes life was not lived in b&w in those days! +1 such respect for Rosie and her fellow riveters.

[sureshot]

My Mom was a "Rosie the Riveter"
She built gun turrets for B-17's.

[ving-thorr]

They're great! WWI in color is airing now too

[gak]

They're great! WWI in color is airing now too

Now that'll be downright strange 'cuz everybody knows the world was in b&w back then!

[Ben_Rumson]

It's sort of a fluke that there is WWII color footage... It's because there was a B&W film shortage... 16mm color film was available & the rest is history...

[new pig hunter]

my pal told me that the Pavel Kosenko website pictures are a subset from this website .... here are 1,615 color photos from the same era ......
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of ... 671370361/

and this has all kinds of background info .....
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/

Cheers,

Carl

[El Chivo]

I thought this was going to be about the DVD series with black and white footage colorized. Most of the footage I've seen both ways, and the colorizing is pretty good.

The only thing I don't like is when they show explosions, they don't bother to colorize the smoke, figuring it's gray anyway. It is, but it would be a different gray in color and it doesn't quite match.