Your blogmeister has been busy over the last few months creating new color transfers from classic Black & White photographs. I have also included the b/w image for comparison. Enjoy!
Douglas Fairbanks Sr. surveys a beautiful southwestern landscape while filming A MODERN MUSKETEER in 1918:
Here’s what we started with:The Lost Talkie GENERAL CRACK (1930) with (left to right) Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, and John Barrymore:
A very young John Wayne and Marguerite Churchill in the wide-screen THE BIG TRAIL (1930):
Bessie Love and Richard Barthelmess in SOUL FIRE (1925):
BLARNEY (1926) with Renee Adoree and Ralph Graves:
Marion Davies at MGM circa 1927:
Lon Chaney in his first (and only) talkie THE UNHOLY THREE (1930):
Clara Bow in THREE WEEK ENDS (1928):
Dolores Costello and John Barrymore (paternal grandparents of Drew Barrymore) in WHEN A MAN LOVES (1927):
I can’t pick a winner. They all exceed my expectations in photographic beauty.