Colour Luftwaffe Guncamera Footage

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by ChrisMAg2

Etienne,
if you carefully look at the movies, you will notice there are actually only two "colors" visible, plus a gray variety. A real color footage would show a very broader range of colors, even if downgraded to web-quality.

I certainly won't argue with someone who actually knows about this stuff, I'd just observe that a lot of photography and movies (Hollywood included) from the 1930s and 40s has this kind of look. I have a DVD "America's War in Colour" and there is a sequence where the colour values suddenly become "modern" and the contrast with what went before is quite startling.

Is some of the variation because different colour processes were being used, perhaps?