[WWI] "Accurate colours"

[Douglas Anderson]

Could this be one reason for the flambouyance of the German flying circus? Lack of paint would have meant a relaxation in regulations.

Ray Boorman <fokkereiv at gmail.com> wrote:  Lol, Mike if you get that software I bet it says Voss's cowl was both
yellow or no no, maybe it was green. With a 50% probability of
either. Now was that deep yellow or pale yellow. Or was the green more
olive or bright green ;)

On a different note, there is a documentary showing on TVO up here in
Toronto thats a multi part series on the first world war. Last week it
covered the German Navy. With the blockade on all supplies that
Germany was under by 1915 they had real problems with riots etc for
food as early as 1916. Which if you think about it, if food was in as
short supply as early as that, then most other things would be as
well. Therefore I wonder just how well regulations on paints and
doping practices were followed. When you start to get into accuracy on
colours, equipment or even uniforms. Common sense says they probably
attempted to keep things close but getting aircraft into the field and
keeping them flying was much more the priority than being super
accurate on colours. Same would go for the RNAS and RFC.

Ray

On 6/6/07, michael wuyek wrote:
> I'm almost sure one day there will be a computer program that can tell
> wether a film is orthochromatic or panchromatic and based on known colours,
> give us a true colour photos from black and white photos...Maybe..That would
> be something!! It'll probably look like Ted Turner's early attempts to
> colourize those Laurel and Hardy and other films..
>
> Mike
>
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