neat Time magazine kodachrome video

[thetooth]

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2009/fsa_color_multimedia/?xid=rss-photoessays

 

[benmacphoto]

Great link, thanks.

 

[charjohncarter]

Thanks for posting this, here is one of the original K-chromes also from 1938 taken by my father-in-law:

His brother HS grad.

 

[thetooth]

the tones of the first kodachrome are pretty wild . wish you could duplicate that look with modern film or processing

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Thanks for posting the video and link! I'm glad these photos are getting even more airtime. Some of them were published a couple of years ago, in a book titled Bound for Glory, with the history of these photographs and their makers. Check it out.

 

[charjohncarter]

Old K-chrome always to me looked like pictures were taken as the sun went down; warm and golden. This one is also from WKAmonette, in 1946-7: