"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"

LLD · Guru

The Young Stones

Crinkle and Dobbie · Member

I am amazed they even had colour photography back then!
(just joking)

Dougwe · Chief one feather

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 · Guru

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 · Guru

Wonder if the Stones called their boots Beatle Boots?

Yuglamron · Guru

A recent Photo of Mick Jagger. Compared to a photo of Lizzi Birdsworth from the Prisoner TV series

Yuglamron · Guru

Poms called them 'Winkle Pickers'

Ron-D · Guru

Ageing can be a cruel thing,better than the alternative,at lest we dont have to worry about leaving billions of dollars behind.

LLD · Guru

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

Possum3 · Guru

Interesting trivia on coloured film:- The USA utilised colour film in all their gun cameras during WW2.

Craig1 · Guru

And they had colour TV before we even had Black & White

landy · Guru

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 · Guru

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 · Guru

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 · Senior Member

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..