Color Footage of the Blitz

[W4ASZ]

Submitted for your approval :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ge-of-London-in-the-Blitz-found-in-attic.html

 

[Ruptured Duck™]

I still find it strange to watch color WW2 footage. It almost seems surreal considering I've seen only B&W most of my life....

Thanks for the link...

 

[W4ASZ]

It was a strange thing to view.

I greatly admire Churchill, and I found Professor Rufus Fears' set of lectures on Sir Winston which is available from The Teaching Company to be essential stuff. You WWII scholars might want to investigate it.

 

[John in Covina]

I was watching BBC News here on the PBS station 24 at my brother's house and they showed some of the footage yesterday.

John

 

[filfoster]

Living Color

I still find it strange to watch color WW2 footage. It almost seems surreal considering I've seen only B&W most of my life....

Thanks for the link...

I agree, although most of the footage I've seen has a 'washed out' quality to it, it does make the past more immediate.
Not to detour too far:
On the blitz, I have had the pleasure of visiting with a woman who endured these. What a great opportunity! She's still living in/on Guernsey-she had served in London during the war.

Ever see "1940's House"? It also makes this era become a little more 'real'.

 

[John in Covina]

I got to watch most of the 1940's House on one of the PBS stations here in LA. I guess in England the did a couple of these with another being an 1890's house or there abouts, also.

1940's house was interesting I recall there were some difficulties that the family had a hard time dealing with such as the backyard bombshelter and the cooking on the old stove with wartime rations.

 

[filfoster]

1940's house

I got to watch most of the 1940's House on one of the PBS stations here in LA. I guess in England the did a couple of these with another being an 1890's house or there abouts, also.

1940's house was interesting I recall there were some difficulties that the family had a hard time dealing with such as the backyard bombshelter and the cooking on the old stove with wartime rations.

Yes, there is Manor House (Edwardian- early 1900's: a very interesting split between 'upstairs' and 'downstairs') and '1900 House'. It was an eye opener to see how much work was required just for daily living, cooking, laundry, heating, etc., let alone the 'Gerries' dropping bombs, doodlebugs and rockets on them!