The pictures date between 1949 and 1951. Based on the time period, what likely color pattern was it? Has anyone seen any jackets like it, and if so, where could I find one?
The pictures date between 1949 and 1951. Based on the time period, what likely color pattern was it? Has anyone seen any jackets like it, and if so, where could I find one?
Are you sure? I thought it was the other way around. Orthochromatic film renders red darker to almost black and blue and green lighter. I don't think those photos are in Ortho, more like panchromatic as the tones look realistic. The faces are too pale. European skin tones are rendered darker like appearing heavily suntanned with Ortho film. That's why in old silent films, actors wore blue make up to prevent them looking dark skinned.
I get the feeling you're right about the math bit though. If we subtract exposure (of red) from an orthochromatic film, then indeed the result is no exposure i.e. areas of blackness. However the images clearly show the same density of the checked plaid, as the forest greens, which fits with the plaid being green. The way to tell in historical images, is to compare the jacket with the context: which tones do foliage take on? In the images, the jacket appears closest to the tones of the foliage. Unless we had a British iconic red postal box, it is indeed difficult to say precisely..!
When Aero were still offering the Waterfront jacket they said in their blurb that the original was red and they were still trying to source the correct colour wool and hoped to offer it in the future. As to the images of the real Brando jacket in the public domain, the few colour photos of it I have seen are red. They could all be a product of colourisation or maybe not.
The pictures date between 1949 and 1951. Based on the time period, what likely color pattern was it? Has anyone seen any jackets like it, and if so, where could I find one?
