More Friday fun from VSL!

Today's entry involves links to some very early, very neat color photographs. Here's most of the blurb:

"The Coen, Hughes, Wachowski, and Warner brothers are brought to you, in part, by Auguste and Louis Lumière — French siblings who screened their first short films in 1895, launching commercial cinema as we know it. What most people don’t know is that the Lumière brothers also invented a remarkable camera process — one that was equally ahead of its time.

First marketed in 1907, the Autochrome Lumière involved the use of glass plates coated with varnish and dyed potato starch. The following year, a financier named Albert Kahn fell in love with the invention and sent teams of photographers out into the world to capture the birth of modernity.

The equipment those photographers carried was almost as delicate as the autochromes they came home with, and the photos themselves have a blissed-out, fuzzy aura; they're like half-remembered dreams, or entirely imagined ones."

Old photos are here - use the arrows up the top of the page to navigate through the show. I haven't watched any of them yet, but old movies are here.

They're right - there's an astonishing quality to the photos that I've looked at so far.  Enjoy!