London in Colour (1927)

A stark difference to today's London! Great footage, thanks for sharing :)
 
The strange thing is I cycle over London Bridge to work and it looks very similar now, including the jam towards to the bottom!

I'd seen it before was enjoyed watching it again- thanks for posting.
 
You might find this interesting as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NObu5VXfTVI

Shows various scenes of the river Thames in 1935 using the Gasparcolor colour process (see here for more info: http://www.brianpritchard.com/gasparcolor.htm) with a fairly unique camera system which was quite clever really as it shot on B&W at 72 frames per second with a synced colour wheel which changed every 24 frames (you can sometimes see this where there is fast movement and the colour filters couldn't keep up).
This was because the Gasparcolor printing process required B&W separation negatives which were then dyed and the dye destruct method utilised to yield the colours (similar to how Kodachrome worked). Three strip Technicolor printing did a similar job just very differently (and it lasted as it had the backing of Hollywood) but Technicolor were able make a much better camera system that used beam splitters and bi-pack film to make the separation negatives (but the speed massively suffered being a maximim of ISO 5 and requiring huge amounts of lighting).
 
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