Georgia Is Your Friend

cloois:

Color film of London, 1927.  (putthison:BoingBoing)

It always throws me off to see color footage of things one normally only sees in black and white.  Black and white footage and photographs are easier to romanticise, while when you see the same image in color, it becomes more real and mundane…more everyday.  You realize that the people in the images are just living their damn lives, just like you’re doigng now.  When I was a small child I thought that life used to be in black and white, and somewhere around the 1970’s, color was invented.  I still remember how utterly flabbergasted I was when I realized I was incorrect.  I think black and white images still hold that idea for me somewhere in the recesses of my mind, so when I see things like the above video, I’m still a little blown away.