Victoria Luise 1913 - experimental color movie
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- This is an experimantal color footage that was produced in 1913 during the wedding of emperor Wilhelm´s daughter. Three synchronous black-and-white recordings with monochromatic color filters were used somewhat similar to the later Technicolor system. These pictures were not artificially colorized.
The quality is far behind black/white recordings of the same event. The early orthocromatic material had a bad gamma curve. Therefore, colors are only visible in bright light and with little graduation. Also the color filters greatly reduced the incoming light, forcing them to record with full aperture and a long duration of exposure.
Regretably I dont have many technical details. You can find some information in the documentation "Majestät brauchen Sonne" by Peter Schamoni.
By the way, the streets were actually yellow during this event because a layer of sand was used for the safety of the horsemen.
This is spectacular footage. I have seen quality autochromes before, but never a color motion picture sequence from the era. Brilliant! Thanks for posting this great piece of history.
Every single human in this video is now dead...
. . . . . .
Your dead now too
I know
This is genuine color! You can tell from the color fringing visible in some frames that this was an early experimental color setup with several cameras. Unfortunately, the telecine of it doesn't look too good, as there's an obvious hotspot visible! But thank you for slowing it down to what rather resembles the original recording framerate.
This was the last major gathering of European royalty before the outbreak of World War One the next year. If I am correct, because of worsening relations with Germany, the visit of King George V was considered by the British government to be a "private" rather than a "state" visit.
Magnificent,only Great Britain could match such a spectacle!
Poor taxpayers paid for those "magnificent" shows. Who else?
@@johnfalstaff2270 and they get reimbursed by tourism
The Kaiser's son Prince Joachim of Prussia is stunning.
...ein Traum diese alte Zeit ...und Heute ?
The Hohenzollerns such a wonderful royal family, sad they were tossed aside by those who think democracy is great
My daughter , my beautiful daughter
Set speed to 2 and it plays like normal
+Squiffy Burloq huh
+Squiffy Burloq I was induced to a rather slow-mo because of the many 20s-30s films played today extra fast and accompanied with dixie music. Perhaps an overreaction.
Setting speed to 2 makes it look like it's on fast forward, as do most silent films when they are inappropriately presented with modern frame rates. I think that this video, set to normal speed, is absolutely correct. At MOST I would play it 1.25, but even then some of the motions look hurried.
@@ThePerfectRed I think it's absolutely fine the way it is. For once, a silent film in which the movements look normal.
i like how they kept the frames ps4 compatible
nice and cinematic
huh? i also like how they kept the quality PC, boring and repetitive, with no exclusives.
Hi, this is not technicolor. They used three separate, linked B/W recordings (with monochrome color filters). The bad quality is due to the insufficient gamma curve of the early orthochromatic material back then. In the HQ version you can see light color shades in the crowd, but the high contrast kills most clear colors. People dressed dark back then which appears mostly black. Regretably they did not show much technical background in the documentation.
This is Gaumont's Chronochrome, additive three-colour process used in 1912-1913. The wedding of Victoria Luise was on 24 May 1913.
Thanks for the information!
those on horse would have been amoungst the last to do calvalry charges in 1914.
Hello, you will find some ressources about this topic online. Early orthochromatic material was inferior to the panchromatic material that was normally used, both concerning contrast and resolution.
Regretably I don't have any more information about the material. This was definitely not a standardized process, only a one-time experiment. It was not intended for mass usage. The scenes were shown in a documentation (see below) and they focused more on the personality than on the technical details.
yeah, one year before of this film i was on the Titanic i filmed the wreck with my betacam camera,65 years after the tape loses
If this is true you must be pretty old, dear friend.
Regretably I dont have many details. You can find some information in the documentation "Majestät brauchen Sonne" from Peter Schamoni. The film material was used for projection purposes, therefore I assume it was subtractive.
I presume this is Gaumont Chronochrome? That would explain the aspect ratio. Very interesting.
That seems very plausible, thanks for the hint! The source I took the footage from only notes three synchronous cameras with monochromatic filters , so I cannot confirm. But it would be likely that the Gaumont process, new at the time, would be used at such a perfect celeb occasion that includes the three major European monarchs.
@@ThePerfectRed
This is a good source for colour film development, excellent in fact.
filmcolors.org/timeline-entry/1227/
@@ThePerfectRed I think it's obvious, that this is the 3-Color-System by Rudolf Fischer.
Hi, interesting idea what makes it obvious to you? According to Wikipedia Fischer only filed patents but never created a successful color print. Was he involved in film making?
@@ThePerfectRed Oh sorry, I answered some other video comments yesterday and got confused which was which. No, this is Gaumont, definitly. I read this not so long ago. But I can't tell anymore, where that was.
George Strum that is obvious statement that all of them on the film are dead. What's your point?
was the man sitting on the right side of the carriage between 1:47 to 1:51 King George V of the UK? or was it Tsar Nicholas II of Russia?
I think King George: farm4.staticflickr.com/3402/4566736964_1cd72e884a_z.jpg
That's Emperor Wilhelm II Of Germany
Do you know the name of this process, and are you sure it was subtractive?
What church did the wedding take place in?
It seems it was done directly in the palace in Berlin.
The Berliner Dom (cathedral) also fronts the Lustgarten, which is where the footage is shot
Before great war
2:13-2:21 Right seat in driving direction. Left from viewer's sight. With mother, Empress and Queen Auguste Viktoria.
does anyone know if there is Audio of her voice? it'd be interesting
Hi, this was made long before the first sound films were produced. Early b/w footage that we see today has been audio dubbed.
@@ThePerfectRed shame
So queen victoria is also out of the question
In the documentation that contained this footage there also was an interview with her. She told about this day and her marriage, of course it was recorded decades later.
Hi!
I am courious if the shown footage here is all taken out of "Majestät brauchen Sonne"? I do need this information due I am doing research for an exhibition. Thank you for an qick answer:)
It's the other way around: "Majestät brauchen Sonne" is a 1999 documentary film that used clips from this 1913 film.
1:59 WILLY! And Brandenburg Gate. YEAH!