Colour film from London - 1928

[TidiousTed]

[video=youtube;TwahIQz0o-M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwahIQz0o-M&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[Gregg Axley]

Thanks Ted!
Very interesting.
I researched Claude Greene and found out his father came up with the process, and Claude continued to work on the coloring after his father died. One article I read states his father had come up with a way to do 3-D although it didn't work out. Interesting read if anyone cares to research him or his father.
BTW I love the car at about 5:13 in the film.

 

[Dubya]

:rofl:

Check out the guard on the left of the gate at 1:20 into the film. He's definately got a crafty fag on the go, as he exhales a steady stream of smoke as the Beefeater approaches!

Brilliant post Ted! :eusa_clap

 

[Steven180]

An incredible piece of history; wish we could thank Mr Greene and his father for preserving this to time. How often do we get to glimpse into the past in such a manner? Interesting to see the sites that went through so much later but still stand today.

Great contribution Ted - thanks!
M.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Some of the footage was originally posted on YouTube with a musical accompaniment. Unfortunately it was lost when the poster's account was deleted. Here's some of the music that was on that video:

Jack Buchanan & Elsie Randolph -- Let's Say Goodnight Till It's Morning (1926)

Elsie Randolph -- Chirp Chirp (1928)
accompanied by Debroy Somers Band

[video=youtube;MusUyhFhg8c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusUyhFhg8c[/video]

 

[Tomasso]

Thanks for this. I want more!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The very first shot was at the end of the musical version with Elsie's Randolph's scat vocal of Chirp Chirp. I liked how just as the song ends the policeman standing in the middle of the road waves his arms, turns and walks away as if to say "That's all, folks." Though that part is cut off in this video.