I am amazed they even had colour photography back then!
(just joking)
Dougwe said
03:35 PM Mar 21, 2019
Struth! To think I had hair like that those days too and as for those boots and skinny ties, I had those too. My hair was longer though. A real surfy dude, me.
Now a days I have to fight off Uncle Al from the wardrobe.
LLD said
03:41 PM Mar 21, 2019
Only just. My dad coloured his B & W wedding photo by hand. He did a really good job. Got mum's dress colour exact. It was a greenish-blue outfit more like what a wedding guest would wear. A proper white & lace wedding dress after WW2 was unaffordable / unobtainable. He was hand colouring B&W photos right thru to early 1960s.
LLD said
03:42 PM Mar 21, 2019
Wonder if the Stones called their boots Beatle Boots?
Yuglamron said
04:38 PM Mar 21, 2019
A recent Photo of Mick Jagger. Compared to a photo of Lizzi Birdsworth from the Prisoner TV series
Interesting trivia on coloured film:- The USA utilised colour film in all their gun cameras during WW2.
Craig1 said
09:14 PM Mar 21, 2019
And they had colour TV before we even had Black & White
landy said
09:27 PM Mar 21, 2019
LLD wrote:
Yuglamron wrote:
Poms called them 'Winkle Pickers'
I thought winkle pickers were very, very pointy toed shoes or boots.
-- Edited by LLD on Thursday 21st of March 2019 05:32:30 PM
-- Edited by LLD on Thursday 21st of March 2019 05:34:25 PM
Correct LLD.
LLD said
02:02 PM Mar 22, 2019
Craig1 wrote:
And they had colour TV before we even had Black & White
As an almost 5 year-old, I got taken up on Mt Bunninyong where a TV transmitter was being installed to beam the 1956 Olympic rowing etc. back to Melbourne from Ballarat. My dad had been dragged along by the person who he did a lot of colouring of B&W photos for. This person was involved heavily in still & moving photography. No idea why we were there but I was impressed. I didn't realise the significance of what was happening for about 20 years. It went over the head of Ballarat people at the time as no-one had TV anyway.
The colour TV that the Yanks had was a tad crappy and we waited until a good standard of transmission & TV sets appeared. We went straight for the Rolls-Royce and skipped the Trabant.
Peter_n_Margaret said
02:48 PM Mar 22, 2019
LLD wrote:
Only just. My dad coloured his B & W wedding photo by hand. He did a really good job. Got mum's dress colour exact. It was a greenish-blue outfit more like what a wedding guest would wear. A proper white & lace wedding dress after WW2 was unaffordable / unobtainable. He was hand colouring B&W photos right thru to early 1960s.
My mother retouched sepia photographs to colour using oils for a living before she was married. Because they used oils, it lasts forever. We still have some of her work.
My father bought his first 35mm SLR colour slide camera in 1954. It was a German made EXA. I still have it and many pics that were taken with it.
Cheers,
Peter
markf said
12:25 PM Mar 29, 2019
When I was a couple of days younger and in primary school we lived next door to a photographer who's wife was a Tsch School qualified Photographic Colourist. We've still got my parents wedding photos done by them. Geeze they're good.
To give more of an idea of how long ago that was it cost mum and dad £94 to move a family of seven and the house contents from Melbourne to Singapore using Grace Bros..
Found cleaning up today.
(just joking)
Now a days I have to fight off Uncle Al from the wardrobe.
Poms called them 'Winkle Pickers'
Ageing can be a cruel thing,better than the alternative,at lest we dont have to worry about leaving billions of dollars behind.
I thought winkle pickers were very, very pointy toed shoes or boots.
-- Edited by LLD on Thursday 21st of March 2019 05:32:30 PM
-- Edited by LLD on Thursday 21st of March 2019 05:34:25 PM
Correct LLD.
As an almost 5 year-old, I got taken up on Mt Bunninyong where a TV transmitter was being installed to beam the 1956 Olympic rowing etc. back to Melbourne from Ballarat. My dad had been dragged along by the person who he did a lot of colouring of B&W photos for. This person was involved heavily in still & moving photography. No idea why we were there but I was impressed. I didn't realise the significance of what was happening for about 20 years. It went over the head of Ballarat people at the time as no-one had TV anyway.
The colour TV that the Yanks had was a tad crappy and we waited until a good standard of transmission & TV sets appeared. We went straight for the Rolls-Royce and skipped the Trabant.
My mother retouched sepia photographs to colour using oils for a living before she was married. Because they used oils, it lasts forever. We still have some of her work.
My father bought his first 35mm SLR colour slide camera in 1954. It was a German made EXA. I still have it and many pics that were taken with it.
Cheers,
Peter
When I was a couple of days younger and in primary school we lived next door to a photographer who's wife was a Tsch School qualified Photographic Colourist. We've still got my parents wedding photos done by them. Geeze they're good.
To give more of an idea of how long ago that was it cost mum and dad £94 to move a family of seven and the house contents from Melbourne to Singapore using Grace Bros..