How come there were some color photographs and color home movies pre-1945, but nearly all photos,

raccoon

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Fri May-21-10 07:47 AM
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How come there were some color photographs and color home movies pre-1945, but nearly all photos,

home movies, heck, even feature films, from that time period are B&W?

Also, I've noticed that slides in the 1950's were always color (the ones my family had, that is).

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Celebration

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Fri May-21-10 09:08 AM
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1. expense, maybe?

Also, the quality of color pictures at first wasn't that good. I guess the exception was slides, where the color quality was pretty good. Our family always used color slides. The color pictures either faded fast or never were good in the first place. Black and white photos held up a lot better. I also think there may have been a big difference in film cost and processing price.

As for movies, I don't really know. Was Wizard of Oz one of the first color feature films? The color was good with that. So, that is a bit of a puzzle.

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raccoon

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Fri May-21-10 10:19 AM
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2. I was wondering also if it might be expense.

Old home movies (in color)of Hitler look pretty good, but I guess he could afford the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9GymQr5_ZI&feature=fvw

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Fri May-21-10 02:23 PM
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3. And why does it appear that more color footage was shot

in the Pacific Theatre during WWII, than in the European Theatre?

Great; a whole new set of questions to keep me awake at night, as if I didn't have enough already... :D

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Stevenmarc

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Fri May-21-10 04:00 PM
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4. Well from 1907 to the mid 30's the only commercial color process was Autochrome

Edited on Fri May-21-10 04:05 PM by Stevenmarc

The Albert Kahn museum in Paris has 72,000 Autochrome shots.

http://www.albert-kahn.fr/english/

http://www.albert-kahn.fr/archives-de-la-planete/mappemonde/#c750

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