@flatspinach: Like Hope Hampton, the actress in the first two costumes, Mary Eaton appears twice. She is the actress in the green tricorn hat. She is also seen wearing blue, interacting with the toddler.
Hmm, something doesn't ring true about this movie being the first kodak film test, I can't shake the feeling that this has been 'manufactured' now to 'look' like then, I have seen many old movies and it is the frame stability that I distrust I'm afraid, but hey just my opinion. A nice film test either way.
One thing that I love about this video, it was considered hi-tech at the time, and had yet to be surpassed. It's sad that we take what we have now for granted. Thanks for sharing.
@tycoon1994 Film works withtout a display. Light shines through a transparent sheet. The surface on which the image is projected becomes illuminated with the light that shines through the film.
@valtonwilson Because to have a display that showed colour was very rare, and also the camera were extremely expensive, it was much more economical to use a black and white camera
One explanation for the flicker is hand cranking, but that wouldn't matter in daylight. The strong arc lamps used to illuminate the actresses probably caused the flicker, which would have been at 60Hz (the mains cycle) by this time.
The two-color kodachrome process does lend itself to nice, muted palette. Reds are vibrant, but greens and blues get muddled together. And in best advertising style, pretty girls in fashionable clothes are always the best bet for selling anything imaginable.
@kinura26 I think you may be right about the model being Anna Q. Nilson. I googled her and she looks just like the pics. If it is her, she also had a small role in Sunset Boulevard, as one of Norma Desmond's "waxworks".
How perception of beauty has changed throughout the years... Back then, women were very feminine, classy, with thin lips and wavy hair, broad hips and small stature. Today, they (men and ppl in the fashion/movie world) love skinny and tall women, with less curvy figure, more androginous, straightened hair and pouty Angelina lips... Is it better, is it worse? I am honestly somewhere in the middle, not old-fashioned, not "new"-fashioned, but... Anyways! :)
@alessya87 Yeah i have noticed that to over time. I know in like 3rd world countries to have weight on you body you are almost considered rich. I wonder if that was a similiar situation back then?
is this from them first consumer camcorders the kodak model A in th early 20s or professional i did see much earlier exsamples in 1908 of colour moveing film so the 20s isnt that original its been done 20 years before that this should havve been dedicxated to those first consumer cameras the kodak model A and the kodak model B and maybe the model K wich are only a few hundredpounds tobuy and are colour can we have sme consumer 1920s/1930s amuter colour home made cllips thanks
Early Kodachrome wasn't really 'color' per se but 2 layers of film-red & blue w/the black & white spectrum in between.I think they used a layer of filters as well.When I was a kid in the 70's I acquired a 1921 'Popular Science' magazine which explained the process w/photos of Both George Eastman as well as Thomas Edison working on the same project together.In'79, i saw the first '2-toned' hollywood musical SOUND film (1929) featuring this same color process called 'MakingWhoopie" w/EddieCantor!
There's something almost haunting about this.. Makes you wonder if any of them are alive, and if you'd told them back then that we would be communicating and sharing their images across the world with millions of strangers at the same time, whether they would have believed you... I love these types of films.. it's like staring history in the face. Beautiful.
@Cnat123 Yes - like the fleetingness of existence - theirs; all the the people around them, and our own. Yet in some cases a few moments of it "immortalized" simply by the light they reflected through a camera and onto film - in those minutes, on that day.
it's such a weird feeling to see moving images of people with such humanly expressions as if they were your mother, or sister, or friend, but only to realize that almost everyone from that time period has died so long ago.
@EasternMerchant Hope Hampton, Mary Eaton and Mae Murray are identified as 3 of the actresses here. The woman and child in the middle are not identified. I can't stop watching this. Movies from the early years of film have a silly "over-acted" quality to them and it's hard to relate to the actors, but this... this is about as real as you can get. I know the music is definitely setting a mood here but this is amazing, in a very sentimental way.
I think people dressed better in 1922, I'll bet the people on here couldn't imagine in their wildest dreams their memories would be going on 89 years later.
I am always fascinated by the hair as I am a hairdresser. The time period was awesome for this. The little boy had a cute bob cut with bangs. Most viewers probably asume today that it was a girl. There is a family photo of my father with the same cut with a sailor suit on. Very typical of the time. It must have been an awesome era if you had some money. If time repeats and I could return? I think I would like to be there.
@SrAdoravel It's not supposed to have sound, though. The first publicly relaeased sound film wasn't made for 5 years, although Edison experimented with sound film as early as 1894. The music accompanying this is very fitting though.
If anybody wants to download this music the production company is called 'Killer Tracks." They've got these songs and tons more; pretty cool stuff. I used DownloadHelper with Firefox to save them. : )
wow not bad for a primitive technology back then. they should have used this technique throughout the years. of course, until something much better was invented..LOL!
This is so perfect- it is hard to believe this is 1922. The defined edges at some spots are spooky and almost doubled in colored flowing patterns. Why was the footage with Lillian Gish and Rudolph Valentino filmed with less hard and defined edges? Even the facial lines ad the patterns in the hair seems "creamed".
Off the top of my head, it sounds like these tests predate two color Technicolor, though two color Technicolor was used in actual films first. Correct?
Amazing footage and in such great quality. To me, I think these sort of video and photo artifacts are our equivalent to ancient artifacts found in archaelogical digs. In both cases, true cultural treasures.
You know this is film and not digital because there is no moire along the edges of the clothing. Ask a cinematographer to shoot scenes that involve screened doors and windows and they'll demand using film.
As for the technology employed in 1922 to make this...pretty darn amazing.
I've watched this several times and it is AMAZING. Especially the quality of it. Anyway the music in the second part (2:09) got stuck in my head and when I finished working on the 1890 or so upright grand piano I got free from Craigslist I started playing it. When it crescendo's in the middle it got pretty loud and my friend walked downstairs with an expression of total shock on her face hearing sounds like that coming from what she called "a piece of old ugly junk".
I wouldn't complain about the quality of footage taken in 1922. I've seen movies from the late 40's that arn't as good looking as this, look at the ww2 footage? This quality and restoration of this film is amazing considering how old it is!!! dont expect perfection from the first colour footage ever made!
Try this. As you watch the picture from 1:50, put your hand in front of your face and pretend you're cranking a camera. Count 1001, 1002, etc, making 2 turns each second. You'll find that your hand syncs up with the flashing.
There have been several comments about the flashing in the picture. The camera was hand cranked. This film required a lot of light. The camera was cranked at 2 revolutions per second. By 1:50 the cameraman is tired and his downstroke of his crank is faster than the upstroke. The camera runs faster on the downstroke allowing less light so a darker picture. The upstroke is slower allowing more light.
The last lady was Mae Murray, a famous silent film actress in the 1920's. Rudolph Valentino was her dancing partner before he was famous and they remained very close friends until his death.
The flickering light is caused by the hand-cranking of the camera by the cameraman as he slows and speeds up the speed of the film which results in more or less exposure to the film. As it is hand-cranked, he probably goes faster on the way down (less light exposure) and slower (more light exposure) on the way up. In the early days of cinema they didn't have electrically-driven cameras to keep the speed of the film constant like in later years and today.
Great comment. I was feeling the same way. I'm 50, and these women would have been the same age as my Grandmother. It kind of just made me feel....homesick in a way.
The one thing that this film proves is that women in the 1920s looked exactly as they do today, which should come as no surprise, since women have looked the same way for thousands of years. Only the make-up and clothing changes.
There were/are beautiful ladies in all time periods. I think the situation here is normally we don't see the 20's in motion color, so when we do, it is extra striking.
Plus, Kodachrome's realistic color palatte has always had that "pull you right in" effect on me. This combined with the enchanting beauty of the models, and I now have a spell on me, thanks Kodak.
Cosmetic surgery is not only done because of beauty. It still hugely takes place because to correct malformed and malfunctioning body parts. But surgeries due to pure beauty reasons has significantly increased over the last two decades. You can hear it from almost any plastic surgeon.
This is hypnotic and so interesting to see. One interesting note is that of Mary Eaton. Her sister Doris was the very last living Ziegfeld girl. She passed away in 2010.
@magy357 I spent a long time looking for the music too. yes, it's from that CD, and I finally found that if you go to Killertracks site (can't put the link here) you can find the music. However you can't just buy the CD, they "License" the music for various projects, and you have to have an account with them, etc. It doesn' t seem like they just "sell" the music outright for listening..........it's a shame; I love the music on this!
Very nice and interesting period film, thanks for restoring and sharing this!
I have to strongly disagree with the decision to add a contemporary music sound track. It should have either been left silent, or period music used! No offense to the composer (I'm sure the piece would have been fine elsewhere) but it is inappropirate and jarring here.
I wonder if they knew we'd be watching them almost 100 years after they were filming. On an electronic device. On a screen. On THE INTERNET. It would have blown their minds if they knew what would happen to that piece of film.
So this was actual color and not painted?
TheHolyMongolEmpire 1 day ago
It's like post-mortem
GatlingPea32 2 days ago
Such pretty girls... captured on film... they will live on forever!
vaniljapulla 5 days ago
@flatspinach: Like Hope Hampton, the actress in the first two costumes, Mary Eaton appears twice. She is the actress in the green tricorn hat. She is also seen wearing blue, interacting with the toddler.
CornersFive 6 days ago
1920's chicks were hot
catbeingsick 1 week ago
Hmm, something doesn't ring true about this movie being the first kodak film test, I can't shake the feeling that this has been 'manufactured' now to 'look' like then, I have seen many old movies and it is the frame stability that I distrust I'm afraid, but hey just my opinion. A nice film test either way.
Lewellah 1 week ago
This was taken in the days when acting and social graces blurred the line between them.
betmanxl 1 week ago
Instant Boards of Canada :)
CoolColJ24 1 week ago
the bitch thinks she's so beautiful
ultravioletgaia 1 week ago
@ultravioletgaia shut the fuck up and show some respect
bagelj 1 week ago
@bagelj ugh, fuck respect
ultravioletgaia 3 days ago
absolutely amazing quality.
TheNapoleonnerd 1 week ago
Another great company, bankrupted by the fucked economy
optisoft12 1 week ago
Is there anyway you can lead me to where to find this music???
sirrahinad 2 weeks ago
@sirrahinad Music: Killer Tracks CD entitled: KT223 (Inspire). First track used is called "Breath," the second is called "Kindle."
TheGrumpstein 2 weeks ago
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clarebear2 1 week ago
it's funny because they're dead
dieglhix 3 weeks ago
It's such a weird feeling watching these clips. Knowing that they've all probably passed away!
watchoutjoe 3 weeks ago
and to think people dress in costumes today to look like these beautiful people of the past.
cyclejunkie 1 month ago
the book was better than the film
nholt 1 month ago
what a camera whore. but awesome film in color as early as 1922 ! and from 1896 theres monocolor films !
markuslebt 1 month ago
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KippaXicity 1 month ago
They were all so beautiful, iy's kind of creepy at te same time knowing that everyone in the video passed away...
t0nito 1 month ago
Omg, the actress at 1:12 is SO beautiful. Wow. Absolutely haunting.....
drumnman68 1 month ago
This is terribly moving considering what it is. The warm flickering light and the soundtrack is a great combo.
nickpelkey 1 month ago
One thing that I love about this video, it was considered hi-tech at the time, and had yet to be surpassed. It's sad that we take what we have now for granted. Thanks for sharing.
Belle0010 1 month ago
I did not know Colour Film was used this early !! 1913 even !!! Colour connects the audience much better to the past than B/W
djscotty1111 1 month ago 2
why did we have two decades of black and white film if we had color. any one know?
valtonwilson 1 month ago
@valtonwilson because we didnt have color displays or anything that shows color back then.
tycoon1994 1 month ago
@tycoon1994 Film works withtout a display. Light shines through a transparent sheet. The surface on which the image is projected becomes illuminated with the light that shines through the film.
nrdesign1991 1 month ago
@valtonwilson Because to have a display that showed colour was very rare, and also the camera were extremely expensive, it was much more economical to use a black and white camera
eirny65 1 month ago
@eirny65 oh, thx for the info
valtonwilson 1 month ago
One explanation for the flicker is hand cranking, but that wouldn't matter in daylight. The strong arc lamps used to illuminate the actresses probably caused the flicker, which would have been at 60Hz (the mains cycle) by this time.
The two-color kodachrome process does lend itself to nice, muted palette. Reds are vibrant, but greens and blues get muddled together. And in best advertising style, pretty girls in fashionable clothes are always the best bet for selling anything imaginable.
pryletoncyo 1 month ago in playlist Early Cinema 1894 - 1915
this kinda creepy
Gomarshit 1 month ago
I wonder the actress at 4:34 looks a lot like Anna Q. Nilson. I wonder if it is her she was well known actress and model of that time.
kinura26 2 months ago
@kinura26 I think you may be right about the model being Anna Q. Nilson. I googled her and she looks just like the pics. If it is her, she also had a small role in Sunset Boulevard, as one of Norma Desmond's "waxworks".
Cnat123 1 month ago
When people still looked cool and had style... so long ago.
nederland4045 2 months ago
very relaxing and soothing i love watching this :)
skievl23 2 months ago
How perception of beauty has changed throughout the years... Back then, women were very feminine, classy, with thin lips and wavy hair, broad hips and small stature. Today, they (men and ppl in the fashion/movie world) love skinny and tall women, with less curvy figure, more androginous, straightened hair and pouty Angelina lips... Is it better, is it worse? I am honestly somewhere in the middle, not old-fashioned, not "new"-fashioned, but... Anyways! :)
LOVELY footage! Thank you for it!
alessya87 2 months ago
@alessya87 Yeah i have noticed that to over time. I know in like 3rd world countries to have weight on you body you are almost considered rich. I wonder if that was a similiar situation back then?
halfasser 1 month ago
lovely!
MelissaDePompadour 2 months ago
is this from them first consumer camcorders the kodak model A in th early 20s or professional i did see much earlier exsamples in 1908 of colour moveing film so the 20s isnt that original its been done 20 years before that this should havve been dedicxated to those first consumer cameras the kodak model A and the kodak model B and maybe the model K wich are only a few hundredpounds tobuy and are colour can we have sme consumer 1920s/1930s amuter colour home made cllips thanks
beggbog 2 months ago
Thanks for posting this wonderful film, what a fantastic achievement this was, its amazing, it's lovely to see.....
atlantic1952 2 months ago
Early Kodachrome wasn't really 'color' per se but 2 layers of film-red & blue w/the black & white spectrum in between.I think they used a layer of filters as well.When I was a kid in the 70's I acquired a 1921 'Popular Science' magazine which explained the process w/photos of Both George Eastman as well as Thomas Edison working on the same project together.In'79, i saw the first '2-toned' hollywood musical SOUND film (1929) featuring this same color process called 'MakingWhoopie" w/EddieCantor!
ANATOLIACHTZEIN 3 months ago
Titanic....
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There's something almost haunting about this.. Makes you wonder if any of them are alive, and if you'd told them back then that we would be communicating and sharing their images across the world with millions of strangers at the same time, whether they would have believed you... I love these types of films.. it's like staring history in the face. Beautiful.
anondeplume 3 months ago
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anondeplume 3 months ago
How many times a day is it appropriate to watch this?
I sure hope not less than 10
789julia789 3 months ago
Why are they dressed in Victorian garb?
bossyrobert 3 months ago
I love then music on this who is it by?
cafebrule 3 months ago
I would love to see a film print of this projected onto a screen. Digital will NEVER have the quality of film.
JohnMGilbert 3 months ago
This is something beautiful, eerily sad, and profound about these tests - all at the same time. Hard to describe, really.
Onneff69 3 months ago 32
@Onneff69 I agree completely. Beautiful and somehow sad -
I think the sadness comes in knowing that these girls, who look so young and full of life, eventually grew old and died.
These images look so vivid, like they were captured yesterday, but it was so, so long ago..
The haunting music especially adds to the eeriness!
Cnat123 1 month ago 2
@Cnat123 Yes - like the fleetingness of existence - theirs; all the the people around them, and our own. Yet in some cases a few moments of it "immortalized" simply by the light they reflected through a camera and onto film - in those minutes, on that day.
Onneff69 1 month ago
The girl in the picture would be 95 now.
robtfdfbvv 3 months ago
That's amazing. The quality is something you might expect to see in the 60's.
robtfdfbvv 3 months ago
this is actually amazing.
spartanses 3 months ago
The actress at the end is Mae Murray
optimalzen 4 months ago 2
Think of what that time will do to our cell,& home videos ? unimaginable.!
scribefbk 4 months ago
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This has to be fake. Look at the focus. Films from the twenties were never this clear, even in black and white.
bjbarker1988 4 months ago
it's such a weird feeling to see moving images of people with such humanly expressions as if they were your mother, or sister, or friend, but only to realize that almost everyone from that time period has died so long ago.
EasternMerchant 4 months ago 60
@EasternMerchant Hope Hampton, Mary Eaton and Mae Murray are identified as 3 of the actresses here. The woman and child in the middle are not identified. I can't stop watching this. Movies from the early years of film have a silly "over-acted" quality to them and it's hard to relate to the actors, but this... this is about as real as you can get. I know the music is definitely setting a mood here but this is amazing, in a very sentimental way.
flatspinach 2 months ago
All I think about is Boardwalk Empire.
98bigbutt 4 months ago
@CoastlineSA No, he would have been much older, remember The Kid was made 4, 5 years earlier. That dutch cut was the style for boys in the '20's.
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Magnifique ! Hallucinant !!! Kodachrome c'était le top !
comme j'suis blasé de ne pas en avoir utiliser au temps ou je faisait des vidéos de Snowboard en 16mm :'(
heureusement que j'ai tester en photo !
sinon vidéo superbe ! les modeles sont sublime !! quelle classe...d'un autres temps
Ericonamix 4 months ago
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milarico06 4 months ago
I think people dressed better in 1922, I'll bet the people on here couldn't imagine in their wildest dreams their memories would be going on 89 years later.
Sheri451 4 months ago
@Sheri451 keep in mind that you had to be very rich and noteworthy to make it on film at the time.
TGram29 4 months ago in playlist EARLY color movies
@TGram29 Was that actress Clara Bow with the red hair toward the end? I read a book about her from the library, and she was a red head.
Sheri451 4 months ago
@Sheri451 The final actress is Mae Murray.
CornersFive 1 week ago
@CornersFive Thank You for your information.I love watching silent movies.
Sheri451 1 week ago
wow we can actually see history.
armandorivas82 4 months ago
I am always fascinated by the hair as I am a hairdresser. The time period was awesome for this. The little boy had a cute bob cut with bangs. Most viewers probably asume today that it was a girl. There is a family photo of my father with the same cut with a sailor suit on. Very typical of the time. It must have been an awesome era if you had some money. If time repeats and I could return? I think I would like to be there.
linear23 4 months ago
If this video had no sound it would be fucking weird.
SrAdoravel 4 months ago
@SrAdoravel It's not supposed to have sound, though. The first publicly relaeased sound film wasn't made for 5 years, although Edison experimented with sound film as early as 1894. The music accompanying this is very fitting though.
DellDuckfan313 4 months ago
This is so beautiful.
AthenaPMiller 5 months ago
The women of this video reminds me of the women of the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire."
98bigbutt 5 months ago
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98bigbutt 5 months ago
It looks like painting on legs, so surreal <3
taiefish 5 months ago
This is truly a beautiful video
AthenaPMiller 5 months ago
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TheycallmeAsher 5 months ago
Pretty amazing but not the oldest color footage. There's color footage of World War I (1914-1918) somewhere out there too.
tubewatcher155 5 months ago
who are you, and what is your story?
newoldtymer 5 months ago
If anybody wants to download this music the production company is called 'Killer Tracks." They've got these songs and tons more; pretty cool stuff. I used DownloadHelper with Firefox to save them. : )
Larce89 5 months ago in playlist EARLY color movies
@Larce89 right but what are the NAMES of these songs...The second one in particular.
sleepman6 1 month ago
@sleepman6
1. Breath 2. Kindle
Right in the description dude...
Larce89 1 month ago
...And all those people have died... I see dead people...
dan1elpess0a 5 months ago
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dan1elpess0a 5 months ago
Simply one of the most beautiful combination beetween music and moving pictures I ever saw in my life.
MrYuppie 5 months ago
just amazing.....no words.....
Howler6691 5 months ago
The people look like they're painted on fine china. The music is fafulous and matches the film.
TheCaleyman 5 months ago
The people look like they're painted on fine china.
TheCaleyman 5 months ago
Exquisite
matthewrcope 5 months ago
I like the music in this video. It is absolutely beautiful,that it sounds like one of Thomas Newman's songs for the movie score.
98bigbutt 5 months ago
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98bigbutt 5 months ago
I never knew they tried to make color film since then because I always think of black and white films back then.
98bigbutt 5 months ago
I believe the first ever colour footage is from a film of brighton pier in 1908
biggusdickus1994 6 months ago
Last woman probably Madonna`s grandmother
LoveRockYou 6 months ago
KODAK WILL ALWAYS BE THE ORIGINAL IN PHOTO HISTORY
monja2X 6 months ago
Someone asked for the music -
IIIrd Tyme Out - Daydreams and Beethoven's Moonlight sonata
jajdurand 6 months ago
@jajdurand Thanks for that. I didn't ask but this music has been haunting me for months so I came back to this vid to find out.
pooperscooper71 6 months ago
This really is awesome footage!
ncdude367 6 months ago
awesome
themetaldetectorguy 6 months ago
wow not bad for a primitive technology back then. they should have used this technique throughout the years. of course, until something much better was invented..LOL!
olegario39 6 months ago
This is clearly 2 color film, Technicolor and Kodachrome are trade names given to the final products.
Arabhacks 6 months ago
old skool
asuccubusinrapture87 6 months ago
This is so perfect- it is hard to believe this is 1922. The defined edges at some spots are spooky and almost doubled in colored flowing patterns. Why was the footage with Lillian Gish and Rudolph Valentino filmed with less hard and defined edges? Even the facial lines ad the patterns in the hair seems "creamed".
jeanborn1 6 months ago
Off the top of my head, it sounds like these tests predate two color Technicolor, though two color Technicolor was used in actual films first. Correct?
peterp21 6 months ago
Amazing footage and in such great quality. To me, I think these sort of video and photo artifacts are our equivalent to ancient artifacts found in archaelogical digs. In both cases, true cultural treasures.
peterp21 6 months ago 2
Were these women on drugs?
mccarrpo 6 months ago
Nice. Nice music too, who's it by?
trident3b 6 months ago
wow is that mae murray at 1.50?
navsikand 7 months ago
This looks like it is the early Kodachrome 2 color bi-pack process that recorded cyan and orange (subtractive) color. Is that what this is?
Absolutely beautiful!!
juni0r75 7 months ago
You know this is film and not digital because there is no moire along the edges of the clothing. Ask a cinematographer to shoot scenes that involve screened doors and windows and they'll demand using film.
As for the technology employed in 1922 to make this...pretty darn amazing.
adkpeakboy 7 months ago 2
Le coucher de la Marie
sfutcher 7 months ago
Like a dream, this is magical I can not stop watching it over and over
MrGajaBoss 7 months ago
Amazing how they posed for the camera then, the same as they do today. Wonderful :-)
Jagamp 7 months ago
I've watched this several times and it is AMAZING. Especially the quality of it. Anyway the music in the second part (2:09) got stuck in my head and when I finished working on the 1890 or so upright grand piano I got free from Craigslist I started playing it. When it crescendo's in the middle it got pretty loud and my friend walked downstairs with an expression of total shock on her face hearing sounds like that coming from what she called "a piece of old ugly junk".
grassulo 7 months ago 2
my dad works at kodak wonderful company
204pippen 7 months ago
Mae Murray 1:50 Jackie Coogan 1:30 (child )
mary Eaton 1:12
Hope Hampton 00:01-00:50
clubpenguinBoy11 7 months ago
I wouldn't complain about the quality of footage taken in 1922. I've seen movies from the late 40's that arn't as good looking as this, look at the ww2 footage? This quality and restoration of this film is amazing considering how old it is!!! dont expect perfection from the first colour footage ever made!
spikew10 7 months ago
It looks like 2-color Technicolor process and badly restored. What about some deflicker, dust/dirt removal and stabilization?
BlueNeon81 7 months ago
@BlueNeon81 I thought the flicker and faded color made it even more beautiful.
LeCreativeGenius 7 months ago 3
Try this. As you watch the picture from 1:50, put your hand in front of your face and pretend you're cranking a camera. Count 1001, 1002, etc, making 2 turns each second. You'll find that your hand syncs up with the flashing.
JohnMGilbert 7 months ago in playlist A Trip Back In Time
There have been several comments about the flashing in the picture. The camera was hand cranked. This film required a lot of light. The camera was cranked at 2 revolutions per second. By 1:50 the cameraman is tired and his downstroke of his crank is faster than the upstroke. The camera runs faster on the downstroke allowing less light so a darker picture. The upstroke is slower allowing more light.
JohnMGilbert 7 months ago in playlist A Trip Back In Time 11
@JohnMGilbert Thank you so much for your knowledge and insight. The footage is wonderful. It truly is amazing.
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sonika763 8 months ago
wow nice footage for that time
aBuZeNL 8 months ago
Oscar Niemeyer, the famous architect, was in that film test 15 years old. he is alive!
QQWEERTTYUUI 8 months ago
just to think, all those people are dead now.
limetreePT1939 8 months ago
@limetreePT1939
There was a little girl in the video. It's possible that she may still be alive.
yankeeds7 8 months ago
@yankeeds7 maybe
limetreePT1939 8 months ago
awesome footage, thanks for sharing.
payless1981 8 months ago
WOW
spartanses 8 months ago
The last lady was Mae Murray, a famous silent film actress in the 1920's. Rudolph Valentino was her dancing partner before he was famous and they remained very close friends until his death.
MollyAnn2009 8 months ago 2
maybe that woman born in 1890s?
monmarfori 8 months ago
Hey they look like they eat food. Beautiful, radiant skin without skull bones showing through.
TheCovitch 8 months ago
Looks GOOD!!! : D
OtomoTenzi 8 months ago
Bravo. Encore.
TheRs07 9 months ago
Hi. What's the name of the music featured with the video?
reneecalling 9 months ago
3-color Technicolor would be glossy with actual greasy make-up looking of the models' faces. Probably pre-Max Factor.
Silencebound 9 months ago
And to think that are these babies are already.... D.E.A.D
maybe the children is still alive :P hauhauhaau
JohnLoures 9 months ago
1:50 -> The first transvesty filmed in color :D
PoltergeistLamb 9 months ago
The flickering light is caused by the hand-cranking of the camera by the cameraman as he slows and speeds up the speed of the film which results in more or less exposure to the film. As it is hand-cranked, he probably goes faster on the way down (less light exposure) and slower (more light exposure) on the way up. In the early days of cinema they didn't have electrically-driven cameras to keep the speed of the film constant like in later years and today.
momentslikethese1 9 months ago 2
I loved it. And the models were just lovely, unlike what you see today. I hope Kodak post more of these Kodachrome film tests.
reneecalling 9 months ago
Kodak should scan the film in HD since film is "HD quality equivalent" and we could have HD images from 1922, that would be great.
Jcbproducoes 9 months ago 2
Hauntingly gorgeous. Like a dream, a breathing poem from a forgotten whisper.
aquietnovember 9 months ago 40
@aquietnovember heavy
stokepogue 6 months ago
@aquietnovember shiiiiiiiiit thats deep
danceshimmyshake12 5 months ago
@aquietnovember
Great comment. I was feeling the same way. I'm 50, and these women would have been the same age as my Grandmother. It kind of just made me feel....homesick in a way.
rubbersole79 5 months ago
@aquietnovember Yes, I agree. To me, it's like seeing ghosts.
mrfester42 4 months ago 2
The one thing that this film proves is that women in the 1920s looked exactly as they do today, which should come as no surprise, since women have looked the same way for thousands of years. Only the make-up and clothing changes.
Mxsmanic 9 months ago 3
Absolutely beautiful.
There were/are beautiful ladies in all time periods. I think the situation here is normally we don't see the 20's in motion color, so when we do, it is extra striking.
Plus, Kodachrome's realistic color palatte has always had that "pull you right in" effect on me. This combined with the enchanting beauty of the models, and I now have a spell on me, thanks Kodak.
I need to get up and catch my breath abit.
bototgus 9 months ago 5
Cosmetic surgery is not only done because of beauty. It still hugely takes place because to correct malformed and malfunctioning body parts. But surgeries due to pure beauty reasons has significantly increased over the last two decades. You can hear it from almost any plastic surgeon.
AirSimming 9 months ago
...like a dream...
TheRs07 9 months ago
This is hypnotic and so interesting to see. One interesting note is that of Mary Eaton. Her sister Doris was the very last living Ziegfeld girl. She passed away in 2010.
nostalgiajunkie70 9 months ago
"worth marrying" HAHA!
fevvers 9 months ago
Isn't that Mae Murray at 1:49?
wilburbonzo 9 months ago
Any idea, how to get music? Is from CD: KT223-Inspire. used tracks Kindle and Breath, but i would like to have whole cd. any link, idea??? Thnx
magy357 10 months ago
@magy357 I spent a long time looking for the music too. yes, it's from that CD, and I finally found that if you go to Killertracks site (can't put the link here) you can find the music. However you can't just buy the CD, they "License" the music for various projects, and you have to have an account with them, etc. It doesn' t seem like they just "sell" the music outright for listening..........it's a shame; I love the music on this!
friendsfamilyaccount 9 months ago
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magy357 10 months ago
The music pieces are amazing but I can't find them x(
kdwormy 10 months ago
sheesh... get a tan.
kdwormy 10 months ago
this video is so beautiful
ashleylbaker 10 months ago
Very nice and interesting period film, thanks for restoring and sharing this!
I have to strongly disagree with the decision to add a contemporary music sound track. It should have either been left silent, or period music used! No offense to the composer (I'm sure the piece would have been fine elsewhere) but it is inappropirate and jarring here.
Please watch this video with the sound off.
infrogmation 10 months ago
They all look like my Grandma...
lurch6969 10 months ago
GRANDMA! XD
tasuki199 10 months ago
somehow this reminds me of Bladerunner artifical humans - their makeup and their strange behaviour + movements. Like puppets.
FriScho 10 months ago
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They are all ugly.
suficex 10 months ago
With photographers (or videographers) it's always women.....ALWAYS...LOL. --sarcasm--
WeatherWarriordotnet 10 months ago
girls from the 1920's look like clowns
SuperTrollAzN 10 months ago
Wow this is more beautiful than any of today's "vintage" films combined
i3lueclragon 10 months ago
wow
southstar66 10 months ago 2
2:00 is that lady gaga from the 20s?
MrSquaretwo 10 months ago
This is breathtakingly beautiful.
earthwormzim 10 months ago 3
I'd hit it.
Skinmeister2 10 months ago
This makes me sad that I was born so late. Rochester actually used to be worth something. Now I want to get out of here as soon as I can.
djbehnkevideo 10 months ago
wow i bet these people had no idea how fucked up the world would be in 90ish years.
mattlindbloom 10 months ago 2
I wonder if they knew we'd be watching them almost 100 years after they were filming. On an electronic device. On a screen. On THE INTERNET. It would have blown their minds if they knew what would happen to that piece of film.
cyberjet189 10 months ago 4