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Model T and others in color

Post by Steve Jelf » Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:23 am

Many of these are so beautifully colorized they look like original color photos.
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Post by John kuehn » Tue Nov 03, 2020 12:46 pm

Nice colorized photos from 25-25. I noticed that the tops on the Touring and Coupe are sort of a brown color. I know colorizing old photos isn’t an exact science but it does bring out what T’s could have looked like on the line. Maybe the way the light is being shown has something to do with the brown color.
But then again maybe the top material that was used wasn’t a really black color but sort of.


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Post by jiminbartow » Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:50 pm

Nice. Is that electric motor to the right of the assembly line the power source for moving the conveyor? I’ll bet that place was loud. Like in the White Star shipyards where the Titanic was built, which was very loud, the Ford foremen and supervisors probably used whistles to get the workers attention and had to yell to be heard. Jim Patrick

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Post by Oldav8tor » Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:52 pm

Colorizing makes the photos look real and relatable....thanks for sharing.
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Re: Model T and others in color

Post by dhosh » Wed Nov 04, 2020 6:35 pm

Wow... I could look at those for hours....
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Post by Mark Osterman » Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:01 am

We would call this “out of the tube” coloring where I work at the George Eastman Museum. The picture would be considered amateur quality because there is no mixing of color pigments to give a realistic effect. A piece of wood may be “brown” but the hue would change depending on the distance from the camera and how the light falls upon it. Shadows and distances generally require some blue for instance.

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Post by joe.wal » Sat Nov 07, 2020 12:30 pm

I once tried out a colouring site on the internet where you upload a black & white picture via browser and get back a colorized copy.
Obviously there is room for improvement but it is a funny experiment.
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No guarantee that the site is safe (but also no suspect that it is not) so I recommend you have an anti virus programme on your computer.
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Post by Burger in Spokane » Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:08 pm

Everybody knows that color didn't exist before 1933 !
More people are doing it today than ever before !


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Re: Model T and others in color

Post by Luke » Sat Nov 07, 2020 4:43 pm

Burger in Spokane wrote:
Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:08 pm
Everybody knows that color didn't exist before 1933 !
Actually in my country color has never existed, colour on the other hand ... :mrgreen:


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Post by Burger in Spokane » Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:55 pm

You people have too many vowels laying around ! Such waste !
More people are doing it today than ever before !


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Post by Norman Kling » Sat Nov 07, 2020 7:05 pm

I think the strange colors had something to do with lighting when the original photo was taken. You will notice the top on the coupe and visor are a strange shade of tan. Same as the top on the tourings. I think they were really black, but the lighting made them look a different color when the picture was colorized. You will also notice in the other picture, the driver and the girl on the running board look like they have gray skin. They were in the shade and when the picture was colorized, it appeared different. The hood cowl and wheel appear red, but were really black. Anyway, it is an interesting experiment.
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Re: Model T and others in color

Post by Pep C Strebeck » Sat Nov 07, 2020 8:34 pm

Very nice looking photos to be sure, but I do not know how much I would actually trust the the colors (or colours) to be accurate, case point:

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The red showed up better for black and white T.V. more than the "correct" black that Car 54 should have been. At best I would think that the colors are an educated guess, but very nice and well done. If you go to the Facebook page in the link there is a nice photo of new Fords being delivered to Holzbaugh Ford in Detroit on W. Fort Street, just a couple of blocks West of the Ambassador Bridge (remember, you can look South and see Canada). I drove by that dealership a lot, the building is still there and is an auto parts store.

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Re: Model T and others in color

Post by Kaiser » Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:39 am

Found it on Streetvieuw, here it is :

https://www.google.nl/maps/@42.3146962, ... 8192?hl=nl
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