Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

By the way, Japanese film makers like Konica and Fuji Film produced as many as 200,000 rolls reversal color films during the war and they were mostly burned except few maker samples in August 1945 when the war was over. I wondered if any traces were left in the printed materials and I begin to guess these pictures are not colorized ones.

Added pic.

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Shinpachi]

This is Weekly Asahi published in March 1939.
Kodachrome was popular but big problem was the color processing laboratory was in Hawaii.

Actress Aiko Mimasu at the front.

 

[michaelmaltby]

"....big problem was the color processing laboratory was in Hawaii."

oops, , globalization is a bitch

 

[Wildcat]

Nice shots Shinpachi. Some photos of the Lumber men of the Australian Forces in the Pacific.

School of signals, Sogeri New Guinea 1943

2/3rd Forestry Company sawmill, Lae New Guinea 1944

2nd Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers. Tarakan 1945

Native workers at 2/3rd Forestry Company. Lae, New Guinea 1944

No.7 Mobile Works Squadron RAAF, Goodenough Is, New Guinea 1943

No.62 Mobile Works Squadron RAAF, Nadzab, New Guinea 1944

2/2nd Forestry Company, Bougainville 1945

2/3 Forestry Company, Lae New Guinea 1944

2/21 transport platoon floating logs downstream, Balikpapan, Borneo 1945

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Great pics gents!

 

[michaelmaltby]

... outstanding.

 

[Shinpachi]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[Shinpachi]

I've confirmed there were both colorized and not-colorized color pictures in Japan during the war.

Colorized sample

Not-colorized sample

Japanese color films during the war. ROKUOHSHA is present Konica.

Thanks !

 

[Shinpachi]

So, I have been searching for original color pictures like this.

IJN airmen taking dinner for the attack mission of Port Moresby. Original color picture from "大東亜戦争画報 (The Greater East Asian War Pictorial)" August 1942 issue.

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Shinpachi]

Fall of Singapore in original color.

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Excellent!

 

[Shinpachi]

These pictures are confirmed in original color.

Isoroku Yamamoto ( Feb 1942 issue)

Fighting Sea Warriors ( Oct 1942 issue)

Japanese Troops in French Indochina & Me109 in European Sky (Oct 1941 issue)

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!