Colour Photography in WWII

**David Richhart** · 5-Feb-2005, 16:44

Not exactly battlefields, but the government was certainly using color technology before WWII... Explore the links from this webpage and check out the color photographs of the FSA

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html

The photographs of genuine "Rosie the Riveters" are especially fascinating...

**Alex Hawley** · 5-Feb-2005, 16:56

Was John Ford's "Wake Island" shot in color? I can't remember. I know he did it himself with a hand-held 16mm. Got wounded too. That was where he lost his eye.

**tim atherton** · 5-Feb-2005, 22:45

some here

click on the Multimedia sections

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,339728,00.html

Here's some stuff from WWI (often colorized)

http://www.jmcolberg.com/weblog/archives/001278.html#001278

http://www.stern.de/politik/historie/index.html?id=530477&nv=fs&cp=1

**David F. Stein** · 5-Feb-2005, 23:30

Thanks, Tim, Emmanuel and others. Interesting stuff. Also, I wasn't aware how John Ford "earned" his eye patch.

**Mark Sampson** · 7-Feb-2005, 05:30

Consider- color reproduction on paper (or in movies) was rare and expensive in those days. The only still color film was ASA 10 Kodachrome, and only in "miniature" (non-pro) 35mm. Exposed film would probably have had to go back to the USA for processing. I think that at that time color photography was just a little ahead of the technology to deal with it.