Maybe it’s a strange coincidence, but some of the most beautiful images I captured for Timeline of Historical Film Colors depict ships.
For instance this beautiful toned image from Roald Amundsen’s North Pole Expedition (Norway 1924) on the metallic toning page.
Credit: By courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: Roald Amundsen’s North Pole Expedition (Norway 1924).
Or this blue mordant toning from the Pathé manual Le Film vierge Pathé. Manuel de développement et de tirage.
Virages sur mordançage, Bleu (blue mordant toning), backlight, Swiss collectors’copy. Source: Didiée, L. (1926): Le Film vierge Pathé. Manuel de développement et de tirage. Paris: Pathé.
Most recently I was allowed to capture one of the few if not the only Gasparcolor documentary Color on the Thames by Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, from the holdings of the British Film Institute.
Credit: Courtesy of BFI National Archive. Photograph by Barbara Flueckiger. Film: Colour on the Thames (GB 1936, Adrian Cornwell-Clyne.
And one week ago I was given access to this hitherto unknown travel film Barcarolle from 1935 in Technicolor, at EYE Film Institute Amsterdam.
Credit: EYE Film Institute Amsterdam. Film: Barcarolle (USA 1935).
And there are many more to discover…
Update 2016: On the new search page there is a tagging system that allows searching for specific topics, such as ships. The tagging system wil be updated continuously in the next few months.