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A Treat For Civil War Buffs

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Monday, July 1, 2019 11:30 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Here is 7 minutes of well-known Civil War photographs that have been accurately colorized by a special team of historians. I find them quite amazing...The people, the horses, the uniforms, the weapons, everything is very real in a way never before experienced. Watch and enjoy traveling back in time 155 years.



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Monday, July 1, 2019 11:57 AM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

... stay crunchy...


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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Here is 7 minutes of well-known Civil War photographs that have been accurately colorized by a special team of historians. I find them quite amazing...The people, the horses, the uniforms, the weapons, everything is very real in a way never before experienced. Watch and enjoy traveling back in time 155 years.




Brilliant! All of this history is so much more accessible when it's colorized - real.
I follow Marina Amaral on Twitter - she does a lot of images from WWII as well, like this f*cker:



Chilling piece of work, isn't he?

I'm not sure how they do it - I know photoshop makes it easier, but there's always been a problem when colorizing (up until now) that the original gray tones underneath would muddy up the colors. See most or all of the Turner colorized movies if you can find them. There's some process these new colorizers are using that eliminates the grays, (and she's not telling).

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Monday, July 1, 2019 1:12 PM

BRENDA


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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Here is 7 minutes of well-known Civil War photographs that have been accurately colorized by a special team of historians. I find them quite amazing...The people, the horses, the uniforms, the weapons, everything is very real in a way never before experienced. Watch and enjoy traveling back in time 155 years.





Jongsstraw those colourizations are amazing. And I agree it really does bring the history to life.

Never thought I would see Custer's mug outside of a painting.

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Monday, July 1, 2019 3:24 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


WOW. Amazing!

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Monday, July 1, 2019 5:22 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Jongsstraw those colourizations are amazing. And I agree it really does bring the history to life.

Never thought I would see Custer's mug outside of a painting.


Glad you liked it. Coincidentally, Ken Burns' Civil War documentary has been airing again here locally on PBS, and in Episode 2: 1862, it covered General McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in Virginia which is shown here with a great picture of Union troops manning their mortars. Ken Burns also tells us that the picture of George Custer was taken not long after he graduated last in his class from West Point in 1861.

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Monday, July 1, 2019 5:36 PM

JONGSSTRAW


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Brilliant! All of this history is so much more accessible when it's colorized - real.

I'm not sure how they do it - I know photoshop makes it easier, but there's always been a problem when colorizing (up until now) that the original gray tones underneath would muddy up the colors. See most or all of the Turner colorized movies if you can find them. There's some process these new colorizers are using that eliminates the grays, (and she's not telling).



Yeah, I remember the colorization craze on TBS in the 80's. Most critics and directors abhorred the process as a bastardization of the artists' work, but I actually preferred some of the colorized movies to the B&W originals. A few of the better ones that come to mind are: The Thing, Sands Of Iwo Jima, White Heat, and Miracle On 34th Street.

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Monday, July 1, 2019 6:06 PM

BRENDA


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Originally posted by Brenda:

Jongsstraw those colourizations are amazing. And I agree it really does bring the history to life.

Never thought I would see Custer's mug outside of a painting.


Glad you liked it. Coincidentally, Ken Burns' Civil War documentary has been airing again here locally on PBS, and in Episode 2: 1862, it covered General McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in Virginia which is show here with a great picture of Union troops manning their mortars. Ken Burns also tells us that the picture of George Custer was taken not long after he graduated last in his class from West Point in 1861.




I think my local library has a copy of Ken Burns' documentary about the Civil War. Maybe I should get it out and see it.

For a man(Custer) that graduated last in his class, he sure succeeded in doing a lot of damage.

I forgot to mention earlier that those photos of Lincoln, Grant and Sherman are riveting. As are the ones of the two boys.

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Monday, July 1, 2019 6:09 PM

BRENDA


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Originally posted by captaincrunch:

Brilliant! All of this history is so much more accessible when it's colorized - real.

I'm not sure how they do it - I know photoshop makes it easier, but there's always been a problem when colorizing (up until now) that the original gray tones underneath would muddy up the colors. See most or all of the Turner colorized movies if you can find them. There's some process these new colorizers are using that eliminates the grays, (and she's not telling).



Yeah, I remember the colorization craze on TBS in the 80's. Most critics and directors abhorred the process as a bastardization of the artists' work, but I actually preferred some of the colorized movies to the B&W originals. A few of the better ones that come to mind are: The Thing, Sands Of Iwo Jima, White Heat, and Miracle On 34th Street.



I never liked the colorization of old films. I've seen "White Heat" in black and white. Cagney fan.

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