1920s London in Color

Generally, people often wonder what the world looked like in olden times. We have loads of black and white images, but as we know, the human eye doesn’t see in black and white. Indeed though, the world was dramatically full of color–and lots of it too.

London was the final stop in a marathon journey around Britain filmed as a series of cinema travelogues. Pioneering filmmaker Claude Friese-Greene brought these picture-postcard scenes to life with a specially-devised color film process.