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http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/08/12/fernand_cuville_s_autochrome_photos_show_world_war_i_in_color.html

Some photos from WWI (1917) of French troops.

Interesting to see the Algerian and Sengalese(?) Colonial Troops in these photos.

Also, the truck was interesting too.

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

I had seen these before in an exhibition, and they're still as good as I remember them. Its important to remember that the French army during World War One was very much a multinational army, as much or more so than the British Imperial Army.

Thanks for sharing

One of the things I enjoy about WW1 is the amount of nations involved that are rarely thought about. Some of them had their own national uniforms, others had the uniform of their parent nation but at the end of the day, many people traveled further than most because of the war, than they would have if it never happened. I think that war formed many national identities in countries and as a result marked the beginning of the end of colonial empires as they stood at the time.

Something of huge importance.

AHC doing that. SHowing color video's of WWI like the WWII in Color

 Swastakowey wrote:
One of the things I enjoy about WW1 is the amount of nations involved that are rarely thought about. Some of them had their own national uniforms, others had the uniform of their parent nation but at the end of the day, many people traveled further than most because of the war, than they would have if it never happened. I think that war formed many national identities in countries and as a result marked the beginning of the end of colonial empires as they stood at the time.

Something of huge importance.

Because the war itself is the political wrestling match between the concepts of 'Few Big Empires' against 'Many, Many little nations' . The first big empires to fall was the ancient Ottomans, Austria, and Germany (which it was relatively a new nation made up of smaller german-speaking polities), The sense of nationalism in Balkans appealed not only to the alliance of Britain and France. (to erode the rivaling empires) but to the natives living within its colonies too! By 1914.. how far did the historic BANG in Sarajevo reaches out? The incident is a clear explanation of the conflict... between any imperial power and any concepts of nationalism.

Many many... smaller nations not ruled over by any European powers (such as Siam) joined the war to voice itself to the world.... that 'THEY TOO! worths recognitions'. and many many more failed to fight any actual battle due to the sheer weight of American military commitments against the Central Powers ended the war before others have any chance to act.

By 1915. How color photography was done? if it is possible to do so by the tech of the time.

 Swastakowey wrote:
One of the things I enjoy about WW1 is the amount of nations involved that are rarely thought about. Some of them had their own national uniforms, others had the uniform of their parent nation but at the end of the day, many people traveled further than most because of the war, than they would have if it never happened. I think that war formed many national identities in countries and as a result marked the beginning of the end of colonial empires as they stood at the time.

Something of huge importance.

This really is an interesting side of it. Particularly the Anzac, Gurkha and Canadian troops made real contributions to the war effort and are far too often overlooked. Most notable, maybe, is the fact that it was not even their war to fight in ways, and yet they threw themselves in with just as much courage as the nations at whose behest they fought. Remarkable.

Colour Photography was first achieved in like the 1850s? I think like, in the 1880s proper colour photos started to be taken (I.E not colours missing or being coloured in afterwards). But I could be wrong. Nor do I know how it was done.

I always like to point out that NZ took the first piece (or second) of German land in the war when they invaded Samoa (which was funnily enough called Kaiser Wilhelm land or something). No resistance, but still.

Is WW1 the war where Britain started promising freedom from her reign after the war? I seem to remember somewhere in the middle east this happened so Britain had their support, but they never delivered on the promise and unrest and so forth happened in the middle east afterwards.

 Lone Cat wrote:

 Swastakowey wrote:
By 1915. How color photography was done? if it is possible to do so by the tech of the time.

The article talks about using dyed potatoe starch on the photograph plates and long exposure times.

 Swastakowey wrote:
Colour Photography was first achieved in like the 1850s? I think like, in the 1880s proper colour photos started to be taken (I.E not colours missing or being coloured in afterwards).

According to Wikipedia, the first "film" made that was color sensitive (as in, when made from negative to positive had a color other than black/grey/white) was in the 1870s... The first commercially viable full color "film" was actually a glass plate in the 1890s. But often times even then, color photos weren't truly "color photos" as they either applied a dye to the film or the picture in order to create what you ended up seeing.

Sorry, was just going off memory, was a few decades off haha.

 Swastakowey wrote:
Sorry, was just going off memory, was a few decades off haha.

Lol, it's all good... photographic technology is, to me, quite interesting history to read about.

Yes, the article also mentions that you might get a general sense of the color of things, but the shades maybe way off base.

For example, a French Uniform maybe blue, but how blue was it in real life? No one really knows.

That is cool.

Am I the only one who finds these B&W to Color treatments incredibly spooky?