{"id":3131,"date":"2005-03-12T04:25:33","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T04:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2005-03-12T04:25:33","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T04:25:33","slug":"world-war-i-color-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/world-war-i-color-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I Color Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatwar.nl\/frames\/default-color.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">The first experiments with color photography were carried out in 1904 near Lyon in France<\/a>, where father Lumi?re owned a photographic factory. In 1907 the Lumi?re brothers patented the autochrome process they had invented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And because of that, the French are the only ones to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatwar.nl\/frames\/default-color.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">true color photos of World War I<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s how it was explained to me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fr-lunch.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/fr-lunch.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<center>A Soldier&#8217;s Lunch at the Place Royal in the city of Reims, France.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Seeing all those full color photos is neat and eerie.  It makes the <a href=\"http:\/\/greatwar.nl\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">last great war <\/a>seem as if it happened yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>There are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatwar.nl\/kleur\/kleur1.html\" class=\"external external_icon\"> tons of other full color WWI photos waiting for you to look at them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketboom.com\/vlog\/archives\/2005\/03\/rb_05_mar_02.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">rocketboom <\/a>and other <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/sparrowsfall\/iblog\/B2087645656\/C789439126\/E658657429\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">sources<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first experiments with color photography were carried out in 1904 near Lyon in France, where father Lumi?re owned a photographic factory. In 1907 the Lumi?re brothers patented the autochrome process they had invented. And because of that, the French are the only ones to have true color photos of World War I. At least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}