Re: Late 30's two-colour pic??
| April 01, 2018 03:55PM |
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Russo Loco Wrote:
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> After looking at the photo again, I'm now
> leaning more toward a colorized B&W
> from before 1940-41 . . .
Chris Walker Wrote:
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> Well Russo, the Artist was sure nice to include
> the overspray along the edge of the Ties.
Good catch, Chris -
Apparently Marmite doesn't just enhance your manly vigor, it sharpens your eyes as well!! I vaguely remember that some of the really early colour film available in the late 1930's was two colours rather than the three we are used to today,* so perhaps it really is a colour original, but from the late Thirties when the herald was still in use rather than the Fifties when the flying Rio Grande logo would have been applied after re-painting.
- Roosso
* IIRC the film 'The Aviator' about Howard Hughes deliberately imitated the early two-colour process for the first half of the film and then shifted toward a more modern rendition later in the film / later in his life.
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> After looking at the photo again, I'm now
> leaning more toward a colorized B&W
> from before 1940-41 . . .
Chris Walker Wrote:
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> Well Russo, the Artist was sure nice to include
> the overspray along the edge of the Ties.
Good catch, Chris -
Apparently Marmite doesn't just enhance your manly vigor, it sharpens your eyes as well!! I vaguely remember that some of the really early colour film available in the late 1930's was two colours rather than the three we are used to today,* so perhaps it really is a colour original, but from the late Thirties when the herald was still in use rather than the Fifties when the flying Rio Grande logo would have been applied after re-painting.
- Roosso
* IIRC the film 'The Aviator' about Howard Hughes deliberately imitated the early two-colour process for the first half of the film and then shifted toward a more modern rendition later in the film / later in his life.
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