1940s WAS in Colour

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As quite a few on here went to the 40's weekends at Bury and Haworth over the last few weekend, I just thought I would point out that colour was available in the 1930s.

Shots of the re-enactment weeks have been put up by several people and there is an underling theme to the replys, "do it in mono".

Well why should you, if you go to the The Library of Congress' Photostream on Flickr you'll find over 1600 COLOUR photos from the 1930s and 40s.
 
Most of the classic shots of the time were reprinted widely in b/w though, I guess. And the wartime and reportage was mostly b/w.

And black and white is better than colour anyway.
 
Yeah I was a little torn about how to process mine, normal 'as shot' colour just looks wrong, not sure why, just didn't have any character. So I went for black and white and that just seemed too old, so I went for the 'gone off' colour effect.
 
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