Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test
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- A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see.
Visit Kodak's A Thousand Words blog for a post about the video: 1000words.kodak.com/post/?ID=2...
Music: Killer Tracks CD entitled: KT223 (Inspire). First track used is called "Breath," the second is called "Kindle."
This footage is from the George Eastman House collections. Preservation was completed by the museum's Motion Picture Department, a project of Sabrina Negri, a student in Eastman House's L. Jeffrey
Selznick School of Film Preservation and a recipient of the Haghefilm Foundation Fellowship. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
So awesome. These women had no idea we'd be watching them almost 100 years later.
Travis Kale it's also crazy to think that this film was 20 years old during ww2
100 years by now
Mae Murry would have expected it I think.
@@lrobbinz I am about to get ahead of the game and declare - 150 years later!
0:00 0:51 - Unidentified woman in hat
0:51-1:11 - Hope Hampton (Feb 19, 1897 - Jan 23, 1982)
1:11-1:23 - Mary Eaton (Jan 29, 1901 - Oct 10, 1948)
1:23-1:37 - Unidentified mother/child
1:37-1:49 - Unidenfitied woman in hat
1:49-4:32 - Mae Murray (May 10, 1885 - Mar 23, 1965)
Names can be googled.
cool, you're the best!
thank you for precious info this film is incredible seems filmed yesterday the colors and quality is astonishing !
I think that the woman in hat at 1:37 is Martha Mansfield
gukonni I think the unidentified woman in hat prior to :51 is actually Hope Hampton. If you look at pictures of her and her silent film performances, especially The Light in the Dark (1922), it looks just like her. I don't know if the woman you're calling Hope Hampton is the same woman in costume or not. Incidentally, sources I found say that Hope Hampton was wearing a costume from The Light in the Dark, which indeed does appear to match the second woman that you say is Hampton.
I am somewhat amazed that the names of all these women haven't been lost to time.
this is the most beautiful thing on the internet.
I agree. I love watching it from time to time. The music they used is perfect. It gives it a ghostly feel.
+DiscoMatty McNiceness It is truly touching and it is if they are reaching from the past to us here in the future through this piece of fragile nitrate film. I feel their spirit.
It really is. Watching archive footage is like looking into another world.
The music is shit
Uriah Music is good.
This is more moving than most movies i've seen in the past year.
They should have played this at the Oscars. Just completely stunning.
What a great idea, playing this at the Oscars. It might help Hollywood to occasionally look beyond itself for just one minute and contemplate from whence they came.
We are so pleased to see so many views and comments for this piece of film history. Here is the original blog post where it appeared. In it I describe why we didn't "correct' or enhance the original. Do you know where the "flicker" comes from? Follow the link in the description (can't add a link to this comment) to find out.
-tom hoehn / Kodak
p.s. Thanks again to the George Eastman House for their tireless preservation work!
That link no longer works.
The blog post is long gone but I was able to pull this from the Wayback machine:
Recently I saw a piece of film at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film that mesmerized me. It was a test of Kodachrome color motion picture film from 1922. To provide context, the first full length color feature film did not appear until 13-years later (Becky Sharp). Watching this little film clip was like time travel for me!
I thought that it would be interesting to share during Oscar® week. In order to share we had to scan the original piece of film to create the version you will see below. That is where Kyle Alvut came in.
Kyle works in our Entertainment Imaging division, the movie people, and is an expert in motion picture film and digitization. I visited our labs to get the film scanned and was impressed with the technology there.
I knew that this little piece of footage was in good hands. I learned that the flicker that you will see is a result of two different things. First, early cameras were hand cranked, or hand wound, to feed the film through. This could result in slight variations in speed. Second, there could be uneven densities in the film itself because of its age. These two physical characteristics combine to produce the "flicker" that you see. There are digital enhancements that can be made to address this but we thought it better to keep this in its original form.
I wonder, who were the ladies in this test? Were they Kodak employees? What kind of lives did they lead? Those questions are lost to the ages.
So without further adieu, here from 1922, a full 7 years before the first Academy Award ceremony, is some of the earliest color motion pictures that you will ever see.
That was kind of like time travel wasn't it? What did you think?
UPDATE March 11, 2010: This just in from friend and fellow film geek Mike C. more information on this piece of footage from a Silent Film Festival site. Well done!
"In these newly preserved tests, made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, actress Mae Murray appears almost translucent, her flesh a pale white that is reminiscent of perfectly sculpted marble, enhanced with touches of color to her lips, eyes, and hair. She is joined by actress Hope Hampton modeling costumes from The Light in the Dark (1922), which contained the first commercial use of Two-Color Kodachrome in a feature film. Ziegfeld Follies actress Mary Eaton and an unidentified woman and child also appear.
George Eastman House is the repository for many of the early tests made by the Eastman Kodak Company of their various motion picture film stocks and color processes. The Two-Color Kodachrome Process was an attempt to bring natural lifelike colors to the screen through the photochemical method in a subtractive color system. First tests on the Two-Color Kodachrome Process were begun in late 1914. Shot with a dual-lens camera, the process recorded filtered images on black/white negative stock, then made black/white separation positives. The final prints were actually produced by bleaching and tanning a double-coated duplicate negative (made from the positive separations), then dyeing the emulsion green/blue on one side and red on the other. Combined they created a rather ethereal palette of hues."
Of Note:
This footage is from the George Eastman House collections. Preservation was completed by the museum's Motion Picture Department, a project of Sabrina Negri, a student in Eastman House's L. Jeffrey
Selznick School of Film Preservation and a recipient of the Haghefilm Foundation Fellowship.
It would be nice to see a digitally restored version of this.
This must have been shot on 35mm stock as 16mm was not released until 1923. It is interesting that further R & D was not done using this bi colour system as it would have been a boon to the industry and surely cheaper than 2 color Technicolor. Does anyone have any comments to add to this intriguing subject? I would be grateful to hear from anyone.
Mr. Kodak, were any movies shot in Kodachrome?
Every movies from 30s and 40s say Technicolor?
It's blowing my mind that this is almost 100 years old!!! I bet these women could never comprehend that one day they would be viewed by so many people all over the world on something called CZcams, thanks to another something called the internet.
Technology is truly amazing
It is wonderful !
Even more amazing is that Mark Twain wrote a story featuring the internet (or a version of it) in 1898. He imagined pictures being sent via telephone cables around the world.
"As soon as the Paris contract released the telelectroscope, it was
delivered to public use, and was soon connected with the telephonic
systems of the whole world. The improved ‘limitless-distance’ telephone
was presently introduced and the daily doings of the globe made visible
to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any
number of leagues."
"From the ‘London Times’ of 1904" by Mark Twain
People were imagining these technologies long before they were possible :)
I so love the women of the silents
@Phil's Study Time Incredible foresight!
Phil's Study Time Early fax machines existed even in the telegraph age. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantelegraph
This is something beautiful, eerily sad, and profound about these tests - all at the same time. Hard to describe, really.
Yes...it is like watching a high speed film of flowers blooming and then fading...such is the transitory nature of Beauty itself, not to mention Life itself!...if only we could transcend the restrictions that Time puts upon us!...these clips make me feel emotional.
This is so incredibly beautiful.
Pro trick : watch movies on Flixzone. Me and my gf have been using them for watching a lot of movies these days.
@Lian Hank definitely, I've been watching on Flixzone for since november myself =)
@Lian Hank Definitely, I've been watching on Flixzone for years myself =)
This video makes 100 years ago feel like yesterday
My grandfather was 10, he's still around today too
+Patriotpower wow! 103, good for him. my grandpa was 9 but died in 95
Mine was 17 but he died in 1997 at 92 years old...
My grandpa was -23 at this time.
Patriotpower mine was 39 died in 1994
Mine was 10 passed away in 1995
this is unbelievable. i fell in love with something i thought to be lost to history forever. film back then was so volatile im surprised this reel still exists. if i could restore every desecrated film, we would have a world of beauty in our hands that we never knew existed!
The quality of the film changes everything - it bridges space and time. They are no longer people of the past.
Beautifully said ..
Right? I thought this would be more ghostly.
Every people is "people", even in old Egipt or something. We just can't see them, but they were much more similar to us than we use to think. They were just regular people going through their lives, shame we won't even see them in film.
It's the color.
The girl with platinum blonde hair is Mary Eaton she died of alcohol poisoning in the 40’s but her memory lives on forever in these early color films she has more than just this one short.
Music choice is perfect. It makes the film more enigmatic and a touch sad, like something between then and now has been lost.
I was hoping someone would comment on this. The second piece - Kindle - is stunning. It's available from Universal Music, who bought Killer Tracks not long ago.
It's like peeking through a window into the past. I almost feel guilty.
I am a photographer. I used Kodachrome from roughly 1945 till it was discontinued, decades later. The first was Kodachrome I at 12 asa, the next was Kodachrome II at 25 asa, the third was Kodachrome 64. They were indisputably the finest color transparency films ever made, utterly grainless. Six Kodachrome chromogenic prints hang on my living room wall at the moment. No color film ever made, positive or negative, equals the rendition of Kodachrome. I believe Kodak ceased manufacturing Kodachromes for environmental reasons - chemicals used in processing Kodachrome left very toxic residue in the soil.
how old are you?
:( You're hitting me in the nostalgic feels here man.
Kodachrome was utterly unique - I miss it terribly. Heck, I miss Ektachrome. A different animal, but a lovely look in its own way. E100S 6x6 slides are a thing to behold. I'm sure medium format Kodachromes were pure magic.
Doug Elick Were getting ektachrome back eventually. Closest thing to Kodachrome, is essentially meant to be Kodachrome alternative.
Ektachrome was meant as a replacement for Kodachrome, but it wasn't. It's its own animal. Not nearly as stable as an archival medium, but more resistant to projection fading. Not nearly as fine grained as Kodachrome, but still very good and with a color palate I always enjoyed. A very respectable runner-up to Kodachrome. If you offered me one roll of E100S or an entire case of Fuji Velvia (with its ghoulish greens), I'd take the Kodachrome.
Unless they bring Kodachrome back and make it available as roll film (120), it's of no use to me.
@Gordon Ackerman It's no Kodachrome, but Ektar 100 is a damned fine color reversal film - it has a good deal of E100S's soul. Assuming they didn't discontinue that too. Portra gets most skin tones right, if that's your focus.
I was born in 1951 and during the late 1950s and all the 1960s my fathers favorite film for family and vacation pictures was Kodak Kodachrome color slide film used in a Kodak Retina iic camera.
You will notice: RED >> GREEN >> BLUE
Early color photography showed quickly that the longer the wavelength, the more intensely the color saturated the film. Accordingly, you will note that red hair on the ladies, red lipstick and red dresses dominated the spectrum. The green dress (intermediate color) was more subdued, and finally, any trace of blue was non existent -- it just didn't pick up It took years of color technology to cure this problem
+Van Knutson interesting, thank you for your insight.
+Van Knutson Cool, now I wonder whats the deal with blue. Photocopiers also used to have a hard time "seeing" blue (that's why artist started using blue for sketching before drawing, so when they copied the drawing the blue color of the sketching lines vanished). And then with LEDs, it was blue the last color that was necessary to create a white LED, and it tooks years to create the technology and the guys that did it won a Nobel a few years ago.
Maximiliano Santander I had a professor who wouldn't let us use blue pens for this reason. He was in his late 70s.
Van Knutson So if someone was wearing blue, what would it be seen as when viewing the film?
I believe something closer to green.
There was actually a FULL LENGTH motion picture filmed in color in 1922. It was called "Toll of the Sea" as can be seen from time to time on TCM.
Except that was in Technicolor not Kodachrome. Of course, it was years before full color movie film was viable.
@@ThreadBomb "Toll of the sea" is a Technicolor system ii film. That system was a two colour system; not full colour. Technicolor system iv introduced in 1932 was the first "full" gamut Technicolor system. "Flowers & Trees" a Disney animation was the first film to be made in Technicolor iv. "Cucharacha" in 1934 was the first Technicolor iv live action film.
Gasparcolor ( a chromolytic system) was the first full Colour gamut subtractive print single film process (1932) , this had some limited success in Europe( mainly in animation). Gasparcolor was very "Slow" and could not be used as a negative, so beam splitter cameras/ successive exposure /colour filter wheel cameras had to used for the primary photography, so it was not really much of an improvement on Technicolor IV.
Full colour gamut Kodachrome came on the market in 1935 ( & was the first chromogenic film process). Followed in 1936 with AGFA neu Colour chromagenic film with integral dye couplers.
@@martinhughes2549 there is no blue in this video. This early kodachrome is also a 2 color system.
@@reviewgodusa9613 That's right. Two color systems had to compromise a lot, usually with an orange and cyan filter giving ok skins tones; but odd looking other colors. They also where not that sharp either using duplicized film stocks or two films stocks glued together( Tech ii).
Cinecolor for example; used a bipack film camera system ( two films back to back, one Othorchromatic ; for blue/green, ( front of the film) with an orange dye base( back of the Orthorchromatic film) behind the Ortho film they had a strip of Panchromatic film pressed tightly up against the Ortho film in the film gate. This film could only record what the filter on the back of the Ortho film let through= Orange/red). This was then printed on a duplicised print film stock, each side of the film had one compromise color after processing. It looks ok ..ish. but lasted until the early 1950s. They managed to adapt this process to a three Color process called SuperCineColor, which looks quite nice. It's a fascinating subject! This two colour version of Kodachrome was on the market for still photography around 1915 I believe. It was technically better than Tech ii; so I'm not sure why Hollywood seemed to have ignored it?
KODACHROME!!! Give's us Those nice bright colors, gives us the Greens of Summers
The music chosen for this is brilliant. Very moving. To think that my beloved grandmother was a child when this was made is something I just can't wrap my mind around. True beauty. I've been sharing this with everyone I know.
This clip is breathtakingly lovely. As a fan of the silents, seeing this in color is amazing. It reminds me of Joseph Cornell's art film, "Rose Hobart".
THANK YOU for allowing this wonderful glimpse into the past
I can watch this footage over and over again. Film is hypnotic.
And I’m here 101 years later watching this amazing archive
Every time I see this I'm so moved by these time capsules from our distant past! I feel the spirits in the images reaching out to me.
Pretty amazing stuff..And they picked the right music to make it a little more hypnotic..
Never in my life have I seen something so precious, nor have I seen such civility in a women's eyes', nor felt the transience of human life so profoundly. Lost strangers, your images make me aware of how short and beautiful it all is. I cannot help but to think that I would find gratitude in carrying a conversation with each of you. Perhaps one day I'll be able.
I get your sentiments...I would love to be able to give those ladies a hug, from the future, and let them know that their essence will be celebrated 100 years in the future.
@@curbozer5006 they knew my friend, they knew
This might be one of the most beautiful things I've experienced in a long while. Thanks for uploading this!!!
Esther Ralston (September 17, 1902 - January 14, 1994) was an American actress whose greatest popularity came during the silent era.On January 14, 1994, Ralston died of a heart attack at her home in Ventura, California.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Ether Ralston had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6664 Hollywood Boulevard.
Beautiful! They're like old master's paintings brought to life.
My God. Mae Murray 1:50 is absolutely beautiful in this. I wish I had a time machine.
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video with all of us! Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱🌞
Something hauntingly beautiful about this early silent clip in original color. Just a totally different experience than watching black and white movies from this era, or b&w versions later colorized. Maybe it's the music, but I get a weird feeling watching it, like I'm witnessing a resurrection of the dead.
I think this is the first time in my life that I simply awe struck of how beautiful the women were almost a 100 years ago. Brings a tear to my eye.....
Well they were beautiful but bear in mind they’re all actresses so then as now the most conventionally beautiful are the only ones you’d be seeing on film. It’s like someone in 100 years watching screen tests of today’s starlets thinking omg women in the 2020s were stunning - erm they’re like 0.0001% representative of the majority of women who surprise surprise don’t look like that. Ultimately all women and men are beautiful from the Neanderthals to now!
@@moominmay I imagined people from the 2100s thinking "Those TikTok stars were so beautiful and classy compared to girls nowadays!". Hahaha, it was a funny thought.
@@moominmay too bad your theory doesn't stick. Accept Jesus Christ and Repent all your Sins.
1922 and better quality than most of streamed movies, okay.
They are extraordinarily beautiful, historical and human images. Thanks for posting them.
The color saturation and the quality are unbelievable. Beautiful!
The music info provided by @november719 is correct. Thanks! You scooped us - God bless the Net! We were going back through our studio's stock music library to ID the tracks. We toiled hard to find the right music and it seems to have worked given everyone's comments.
More info on the "stars" of this test is in the original blog post linked in the description of this video.
Thanks to all who have viewed, commented, and shared this simple test from days gone by. @tomhoehn (Twitter) from Kodak
Wow this is amazing, the music is hauntingly beautiful too
This is by far one of my most favorite videos on youtube
I just love how artsy they were, people talk like everything was so dull back then, but here they are!
This is better camera than the iphone 6s.
IKR!!!!
A bit mixed eh?
Bitch, my entire channel was filmed with the 6s, AND I THINK IT LOOKS FINE.
because its use large format duh
You can’t really compare film to digital, the two are completely different. Technically your iPhone 6 is better, but film has an amazing aesthetic and look that no digital camera could ever produce. 😉
The girl in the bright red and silver is Mae Murray!
I do believe it is.
James Zeruk Jr. good call, thank you. i have watched this clip on and off for years, wondering.
+Rawson Gordon II Thanks, but I must give credit for that to my editor, author and film historian Eve Golden, who is an image archivist! Eve confirmed when I sent her this video!
Amazing how nobody seemed to notice this or credit her.
Mae Murray was one of the most famous women in the world by the mid-twenties. She made a tragic mistake in '26 when she married a bogus "prince," probably because she was pregnant. He took control of her affairs and convinced her to make decisions that would eventually destroy her career. Within a matter of a few years the estimated 3 million dollars she'd made had vanished or was stolen by her husband. She would end up a destitute relic of the forgotten silent era; mentally unstable; obsessively planning her "comeback" up until the day she died (1965), penniless, at the Motion Picture Home she'd been part of creating 40 years before.
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, thank you so much.
Hauntingly beautiful!
Better quality than security cameras
This is breathtakingly beautiful.
Breathtakingly beautiful. Never ceases to amaze me what the dimension of color can add to a film. We're so used to seeing this period in black and white, it's startling just to see a few clips in color.
Beautiful ghostly images forever captured in color. It would be nice to know what the last model is saying if anyone can read lips.
the last model is Mae Murray she discovered Rudolph Valentino talent
She’s saying, “ Rudy, you gotta suck the spaghetti thru pursed lips”.
To me it look like she said “ok” to the director a couple of times and then “yeah, of course.”
This clip blew me away.
Hauntingly beautiful, especially with the choice of music.
Absolutely spectacular first ever colorized movie. I'll bet the people back then that saw it for the first time were in awe that they pulled this off. Thanks for sharing this very important piece of history thanks to Kodak and their invention of Kodachrome in 1922.
The most disgusting part is that there are hardly any films there. Back then it was natural to find this in the 1920's, always sources of ingenious amazement. Automobiles, fashion, and film. But now, people are convinced color was just popular in 1960. It is hideous that this is the modern world, always proving how good they are compared to the past, yet never having anything actually revolutionary that they bring up beside a project.
My great-grandma was 6 years old when this was filmed.She died in 2005.
R.I.P to her
R.I.P
***** How do you Know?
***** Dude I suppose evefry pearson that has died in your family is fake rufus im sorry for your loss.
Rufus Masters RIP in peace
it's stunning, I love the way the women looked and dressed in the 1920's
Beautiful, and wow, if ever music complemented a video, this is perfect. Bravo to all involved.
It's amazing by just how a colour image can make it feel current. Plus the quality and colour is amazing.
Imagine a whole modern day film done in this style? It would be beautiful!!
very good!
@@teleaddict23 shut up incel trash
I'm single. When I first saw the girl at 1:12 my heart said, "That's my wife"...
Ninety-five years too late.
I think I would’ve had more luck with the ladies in those days. I get the impression that women had more values and were loyal to their partners in those days. And there wasn’t such a thing as feminism.
@@teleaddict23 found the inc3l
Nah.. look at her right arm. She's taking a selfie. Not my type. At all.
@@teleaddict23 you do realise that feminism was giant back then
@@teleaddict23 whats hilarious is many girls say the exact same thing about guys back in those days. Guess we all just need to work and focus on our own problems and not the other genders
Thankfully some archived this. Great work!
So wonderful! I love your company!
This red/green system looks like a living moving paintings.
This is amazing, how much has fashion and femininity change in almost 93 years. The diva pose still remain though.
Wow, seeing this in color is almost like travelling back in time and actually being there.
Thanks for posting.
Absolutely beautiful! I can't stop watching it!
The colors are amazing. These women look like they are alive today.
They had colour footage in 1922!? It's interesting how it took almost half a century after this for most people to have colour TVs in their homes.
they had color footage in 1902.
It must have been recently colourised as it looks too damn good. If it really was from 1922, how come colour films didn't exist at that time but the technology existed perfectly for a 5 minute reel of random women?
southlondon86 i think it was how the early color films degraded over time. something to do with the film material they had to use that warped under the heat of the projection lamp or was too fragile or something like that. too expensive to mass produce.
southlondon86 its a Kodachrome test. The chrome part of the name means color. Yes, its color film from back then.
Stupid fuck!
This is absolutely breathtaking.😍
These images are so beautiful!
I cried watching this video. It's so, so wonderful to see... so enchantedly charming!
It's a huge pity that sound wasn't there, that wouldn't have made this video even more perfect than it is.
The music is... beautiful. Suits the film like a glove.
OMG this is wonderful! kudos to the Kodak people, from someone who LOVES the movies with all her heart :=)
Thanks very much for posting this!
is it me or did women look more beautiful in the past?
it's because they wore proper clothes and not bi*ch theirselves out, i believe :)
its just you. these women are only 3 generations back and they are wearing makeup. thats just an eyeblink of time.
+Dave simply because they selected pretty ones for filming. It has always been this way.
LOL that slipped my mind! you are absolutely correct.
+Dave yeah, they werent exactly filming the pigs of the day lol
This is so beautiful... i think my heart swelled! how awesome... what a break through in time ... truly amazing!
Just beautiful....and mesmerizing. Thank you Kodak for sharing.
This is not the 1936-2009 Kodachrome. This is a 2-color film, so the colors are not quite right.
its scary because you know all these people are dead now
What's scary about that?!?!?
I think they're sexy. ;3
then you should throw away your bills.
Why? My grandmother was born in 1907, she is still alive today
*****
Well, the kid in the video would be like 102 if he lived until today at least, 2014
Really beautiful lighting and the music enhances the experience.
These things make me cry, I don't know why. So beautiful!
Holy shit this was almost 100 years ago. Meaning that the kid shown in the footage has probably been long dead...
Crushing on the girl at 1:12
+hamsterdunce maybe she's a vampire and you will eventually meet her :F
Unfortunately, she's been dead for probably 30 years.
+Vincememe It's like looking at time through a microscope...
She is Mary Eaton. Mary Eaton (January 29, 1901 - October 10, 1948) was a leading American stage actress, singer, and dancer in the 1910s and 1920s. A professional performer since childhood, she enjoyed success in stage productions such as the Ziegfeld Follies and early sound films such as Glorifying the American Girl and The Cocoanuts, but found her career in sharp decline by the mid-1930s. A battle with alcoholism led to her death in 1948 from liver failure.
How sad she died at the age of 47. Just shows how we are only here for a short while. One life, live it.
a stunning , moving snapshot of history
Amazing...brings the past to life in a way you just can't quite touch in black and white..beautiful
This is two-tone color. Blue is missing, but anyway astonishing!
From Wikipedia: Technicolor originally existed in a two-color (red and green) system. In Process 1 (1916), a prism beam-splitter behind the camera lens exposed two consecutive frames of a single strip of black-and-white negative film simultaneously, one behind a red filter, the other behind a green filter. Because two frames were being exposed at the same time, the film had to be photographed and projected at twice the normal speed. Exhibition required a special projector with two apertures (one with a red filter and the other with a green filter), two lenses, and an adjustable prism that aligned the two images on the screen.
No, I don't think this is two-strip Technicolor. It's Kodacolor. It reproduces the full spectrum, but it's very slow. You don't want to set the actors on fire while you're trying to photograph them.
I want to know who these people are and what happened to them in their lives.
Well one of the ladies is Mae Murray. You can wiki her name to learn more about her.
iMiKE23 I 'm trying to figure out who all the other women are---maybe lesser known actresses, or maybe even some models?
cfila1 Hope Hampton, Mary Eaton and Mae Murray.
Marylouise Fraijo Ambriz Who is the second girl, reclining blonde?
Stakker I believe this to be Hope Hampton. www.silentsaregolden.com/photos/hopehamptonphoto.html
Thank you for posting, Times have really changed. What a wonderful time to have lived. Also, a very young Mae Murray too, beautiful!
Kodachrome was so beautiful, it's such a shame not to have it anymore
Such beauty, elegance and all NATURAL. No surgeries. No photoshop.
How far our society has fallen for unnatural beauty.
Truth Sayer fuck off mate they're all wearing a clowns worth of makeup
Straight men are so Hypocritical. Who do you think imposed these beauty standards? MEN! You think shes beautiful, but men back in the day were a lot more entitled and assholes then, and put beautiful women like these down constantly. Why do you think showgirls were popular back in the day? Because they wore a lot if makeup, bared their skin, and shimmied their assets. Regular women tried keeping up with the pinups and starlets, and here we are today!
Jacob Cannon Way to cast a net over a whole group of people.
If the cosmetic surgeries we have available today were around back then, they'd likely be just as popular. The 1920's saw an overall relaxing of pre-war social norms.
No, no Mary Pickford here.
Moosetta Mary Eaton
so friggin ahead of time!
Coupled with that music I found this truly haunting and mesmerizing. What a fantastic glimpse into yesteryear.
1920s Instagram
Does anyone know the music to this video?
Is it that hard to click the "see more" tab?
This is endlessly fascinating. American ingenuity, pluck, and beauty at it's most raw. Fantastic.
This is wonderful! I love how b&w-silent-film-exaggerated many of the expressions and actions are, but in color! And yes, the music is perfect. Thank you for posting.
Oh. 9years ago! Hello lost account
One day some one will read this
God, the girl at 1:13 is gorgeous.
Especially her smile at 1:21. :)
DATalt I know, my heart melted
I wonder who she was, she gave me the tinglys.
I wondered what her life had been like, considering that she's surely passed away by now.
BangMan007 Apparently she is none other than "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, who was actually Canadian. She lived to the ripe old age of 87 and died extremely wealthy. She was a co-founder of United Artists. The color footage really accentuates her beauty.
Damn, There was some hot chicks in the 20's !!!!
this really needs to be presented at a much higher resolution. it is an artifact of precious historical value and deserves to be presented as such. please rescan and post HD.
Thanks for posting this piece of history.
@Ima Christian- You're looking through a very narrow window with that comment. The Romans performed early cosmetic procedures. I cant stand people who think humanity has changed, or was any different than before the present. Humans will be human.
but these women hadn't any. Other than makeup. I don't consider that narrow; these women had a beauty that wasn't manufactured. It was just captured.
human is human but who is really human?? you know something about the kind of human you are? what changes is the consciousness we have about our self… and the knowledge.
Beautiful music to match the beautiful model. Who was she? What does she say? Can anybody read her lips? Leave it here. Thank you.
shes saying "get me the hell out of the 20's."
+George Strum I have no idea where the original blog post from Kodak went, but here's an excerpt: "In these newly preserved tests, made in 1922 at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, actress Mae Murray appears almost translucent, her flesh a pale white that is reminiscent of perfectly sculpted marble, enhanced with touches of color to her lips, eyes, and hair. She is joined by actress Hope Hampton modeling costumes from The Light in the Dark (1922), which contained the first commercial use of Two-Color Kodachrome in a feature film. Ziegfeld Follies actress Mary Eaton and an unidentified woman and child also appear.George Eastman House is the repository for many of the early tests made by the Eastman Kodak Company of their various motion picture film stocks and color processes. The Two-Color Kodachrome Process was an attempt to bring natural lifelike colors to the screen through the photochemical method in a subtractive color system. First tests on the Two-Color Kodachrome Process were begun in late 1914. Shot with a dual-lens camera, the process recorded filtered images on black/white negative stock, then made black/white separation positives. The final prints were actually produced by bleaching and tanning a double-coated duplicate negative (made from the positive separations), then dyeing the emulsion green/blue on one side and red on the other. Combined they created a rather ethereal palette of hues."
+raleighman3000 You...made me laugh hard right out loud...that was hilarious... Thank you 👏😂👏
+WhirledPeace yw
I'd love to know, too.
A truly wonderful presentation, thank you very much!
Absolutely beautiful and enchanting....being blown a ki from 1922 is surreal - wonderful.
My dad's mother would have been about 16 ... she was a flapper.
probably a slapper
My history professor said flappers were "lovely, expensive, and about nineteen"