Old Lumiere films colorized and speed-corrected
I love these:
This one is great but the added sounds are awful:
From a comment there:
The children names and what they became:
0:03 : this is Madeleine Koehler, born in 1895, second child of Jeanne Lumière (sister of the lumiere brothers) and René Koehler (doctor, zoologist and professor). In 1914 she married Josseph Larousse, a naval officer who recieved the french knight honor and who killed himself in 1919. The married again in 1924 with Jean Henric who died a year later. They had one kid. She died in 1970.
1:59 : this is one of the Lumiere Brother (Auguste) and his daughter Andrée. Andrée was born in 1894. She’s in many of their film (like in the famous film “le repas de bébé” where she have a meal with her parents when she was a baby). She died in 1918 at the age 23 from the spanish flu.
3:00 This is Madeleine Koehler with her brother Marcel, born in 1892. He was a engineer, he created the Koehler Escoffier brand of motorcicle then run the company Facel (wich later became the luruxy brand Facel Vega). During ww1 he fought in Petrograd, Russia as a mechanic then as a pilote. In 1921 he married Olga Scgreider at Riga , Lettonia and took her to France. No children. He died in 1958.
4:32: this is Madeleine, Marcel and Suzanne Lumière (daughter of one of the Lumiere brother: Louis). She was born in1894; married Albert Trarieux in 1917 and had 3 children included one daugther named Renée. She died in 1973.
Thank you for the reminder that other times were real times!
An outstanding series of color photographs of Russia…real color, not colorized..was taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky…circa 1905-1915. The process used was one he developed himself, with three cameras each with filters for a primary color. Projection required aligning three projectors precisely; now the consolidated image can be created with computer image processing technology.
Here are some of the photographs:
https://twistedsifter.com/2015/04/rare-color-photos-of-the-russian-empire-from-100-years-ago/
You can mute the terrible added sounds .
I have some 1902 photos of our house given to us by the granddaughters of the man who built it in 1899. The children in the pictures all have hats with the same gigantic brims as in the movies. Too bad there aren’t any videos of the children on bicycles or in carriages, it would be interesting to compare them and see them in action.
I’m really happy to see the technology developed for making the WWI documentary “They shall not grow old” being spread across to other old films. I think people will be amazed when they see a more realistic representation of the confidence people once had in their physical movements – casually walking down city streets with early automobiles, horse-drawn wagons, streetcars whizzing right by them, paying them no mind. The former world was much more physically intimate then – people were on their feet all day long and much more accustomed to accommodating quick reactions I guess.
I remember seeing one old film clip of an ice-breaker coming into a wintry port. People were out on the ice, walking around in their finery, on foot, on velocipedes, right up next to the icebreaker as it plowed its way by. Absolutely no caution, but maybe because they knew exactly how to behave on the ice by virtue of their daily physical experience. Remarkable.
Can’t imagine what the editor was thinking with those phony sounds….all that effort going towards improving the film quality and then these sounds that don’t fit the pictures. Weird. ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ hired a deaf lip-reader who then watched the improved film and provided the script they later dubbed in. A real labor of love, that film.
“They shall not grow old” was another tour de force by Jackson. I enjoyed the pictures of pre-revolutionary Russia. To see the past in such vivid colors is refreshing. It gives everyone historical perspective.
Hollywood lead by Spielberg and now Lucas is trying to preserve many of the early films. It is a worth endeavor.
These are fantastic. Thanks, neo.
And, thanks, David+Foster on December 5, 2020 at 7:46 pm, for the link. Wow! Such vivd colors!!!!
Tres magnifique!
Wonderful. Plus, not just cat videos – historical cat videos!
I must say colorization has come a long way from the Ted Turner days, when Turner’s efforts were widely reviled.
Although I confess a soft spot for the color-tinted version of “The Big Sleep.”
The David+Foster linked Russian photos are awesome, though I imagine the gorgeous colors are due to computer techniques.
But give Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky credit for the painstaking camerawork using the primitive equipment of the day. Amazing image selection and composition.
Love seeing films from late 1800s to early 1900s
David+Foster those to me in many cases could be 1812 and would be no different
On a more plebian note, here’s a lovingly colorized scene from “The Addams Family”:
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How nice of them to have charities for pets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFk524m3pR0
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The real “Addams Family” set was quite bizarrely colorful:
–“The Addams Family’s Living Room Was Actually Pink!”
https://www.boredpanda.com/the-addams-familys-living-room-was-actually-pink/
Fascinating glimpse into the past as it was.