Colourised historic pictures...

[gripper stebson]

Some great stuff here. Cheers eastlondonseagull

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/historic-black-white-photos-colorized/

 

[Hendrax]

awesome

 

[£1.99]

Fantastic!

 

[dougdeep]

But I love black and white.

 

[ofco8]

Really enjoyed those. Whilst black and white is atmospheric the colour does give us an impression as to how things really looked.

 

[MICK PATCHAM]

fantastic link ...great work

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

We need the key moments of Brighton and Hove Albion history colourised!

 

[shingle]

But I love black and white.

Is the correct answer, some of the images work better in black and white. A nice experiment though

 

[portlock seagull]

Picture 15 is dated incorrectly. Should be 1914 i guess. The uniforms are ww1 not ww2 and the western front was a term from the Great War also.

 

[Stat Brother]

This one was brilliant, it's a shame the pics are unavailable now, although there is a thread on here about it:-

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/10/ghosts-of-war-wwii-photos-blended-into-present-day/

 

[Lord Bracknell]

That's a superb website.

I particularly like Stanley Kubrick's photos of New York, taken in the 1940s.

http://twistedsifter.com/2011/12/stanley-kubricks-new-york-photos-1940s/

 

[Motogull]

Good stuff.

Fit: Joey Barton's bird, Audrey H and Liz T.

 

[brakespear]

good stuff

 

[Brovion]

Picture 15 is dated incorrectly. Should be 1914 i guess. The uniforms are ww1 not ww2 and the western front was a term from the Great War also.

Hmm, not sure. Tin hats ('originally called 'Brodie helmets' after the man who invented them) weren't introduced until late 1915. Also in WW2 it was referred to as the 'Western Front', certainly colloquially by the soldiers because the war was going to be fought (they thought) on the same battlegrounds as WW1. (Likewise the army was called the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) as in WW1). Sadly the ground weapons and tactics were about the same as 1918 as well.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Great concept, but it strikes me the choice of colours are arbitrary decisions...

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

So who here had the Photoshop skills?

 

[Laughing Gravy]

Thanks for posting

 

[portlock seagull]

Hmm, not sure. Tin hats ('originally called 'Brodie helmets' after the man who invented them) weren't introduced until late 1915. Also in WW2 it was referred to as the 'Western Front', certainly colloquially by the soldiers because the war was going to be fought (they thought) on the same battlegrounds as WW1. (Likewise the army was called the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) as in WW1). Sadly the ground weapons and tactics were about the same as 1918 as well.

You obviously don't know your uniforms as I do! I can understand why the untrained eye might see little difference between the two wars. Go do some googling and you'll see. Pretty obvious if you take a closer look. I think the fact someone's used western front as a description and then put date as 1939 is likely because they were thinking about ww2 at the time. We all do it sometimes, write something different to what we intended because we're thinking about something to do with at the time. But anyway, it's a mistake - see if you can spot!

 

[wolfie]

I doubt if the BEF would have departed as late as that in 1914. Also in 1914, the western Front had not yet been established.

 

[spongy]

I've never seen that photo of Elizabeth Taylor before. She was a damn fine looking lady.