Color Video of London in 1927

 Posted by on 21 May 2013 at 2:00 pm  Film, History
May 212013
 

London in 1927… in color!

The video description says:

Incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, who made a series of travelogues using the colour process his father William – a noted cinematographer – was experimenting with. It’s like a beautifully dusty old postcard you’d find in a junk store, but moving.

Music by Jonquil and Yann Tiersen.

I love early color photographs and videos. The past seems so much more real in color.

  • http://twitter.com/Radian_Angle Tjitze de Boer

    “More than one American has offered to buy that tower and erect it on palm beach as a bungalow!”

    Oh you adorable silly Americans. XD

  • http://www.facebook.com/Carach Patrick Black

    Wait, you mean Calvin’s dad (Calvin and Hobbes) lied when he said the world used to be black and white until sometime in the 30′s? I’m so disillusioned!

    http://www.reoiv.com/images/random/dadbandwandcolour.jpg

   
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