This film was shot in black and white by the Lumiere brothers and hand coloured, frame by frame.
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Thank you to Coley Porter Bell
Colour film of ‘The Serpentine Dance’, 1899
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Colour footage of Deauville, 1912
Colour footage of St John’s Wood, 1940s
Colour photographs of the Duke of Windsor, gardening
Colour photograph of Thomas Hardy, 1914
Birds-eye views of NYC, 1800s
Colour photographs of Charlie Chaplin, 1917-1918
Colour film of VE Day, Pittsburgh, 1945
'A kiss to remember' in colour
1700 Japanese babies, 1893
Colour photographs of New York, 1960, by Charles Cushman
Colour photographs of 'The Grenata Street Army', 1915
Victorian Husbands and Wives
Colour photographs of fashion, 1940s, by John Rawlings
Colour film of VJ Day 1945, Honolulu, Hawaii
Colour photographs of circus performers, 1940s-1950s
The Arm of Liberty, 1876-1882
Construction of the Williamsburg Bridge, New York, 1896-1903
The Invisible Mother
Children With Toys, 1860s
Snapshots of New Yorkers, 1887-1897
Paul Gauguin playing the harmonium in his pants, 1895
That is stunningly beautiful
magical. the music is perfect too
She was called Loie Fuller.
There is a modern take on her style here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mQu9XHUgbw
Absolutely beautiful, and probably really time consuming. But it turned out great anyway!
Stunning. It shows that going all the way back to the very beginning, moving pictures were being thought of as not just a way of capturing reality but also of creating something utterly fantastical.