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Nisgeis · 12-11-10, 04:16 PM

Curse you internet, you win again. When General Umbongo sends me that $34 million he's promised me in that email for helping him with his banking issues, I'll clean up the web for sure. Still, I'd not seen the pics before.

I did read elsewhere though that some of the famous 'photographs' are actually stills from cine film, which explains how they were taken at exactly the right point. But what's more interesting is that the cine films used to illustrate the event were in colour. It's just that everyone grew up seeing the B&W (cheaper) reproduction images that people have an expectation that they were B&W originally, so no one thought to find the originals when colour became more prevalent. As time goes on and more of this stuff comes out of private archives, we have a greater picture of events.

12-11-10, 04:16 PM	#2
Nisgeis Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,909 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 11	Curse you internet, you win again. When General Umbongo sends me that $34 million he's promised me in that email for helping him with his banking issues, I'll clean up the web for sure. Still, I'd not seen the pics before. I did read elsewhere though that some of the famous 'photographs' are actually stills from cine film, which explains how they were taken at exactly the right point. But what's more interesting is that the cine films used to illustrate the event were in colour. It's just that everyone grew up seeing the B&W (cheaper) reproduction images that people have an expectation that they were B&W originally, so no one thought to find the originals when colour became more prevalent. As time goes on and more of this stuff comes out of private archives, we have a greater picture of events. __________________ -------------------------------- This space left intentionally blank.