Color Version:
I experimented with colorizing the black & white original of this photo, but I wasn’t completely happy with it. The original B&W version (with an added tint) gave the image more of an old-time, vintage look–that seemed to work better with the innocent nature of the woman’s question.
(Plus I thought a photo with flesh-colored side boobage might be a little too daring for my GoComics.com/lastkiss site.)
So I went with the b&w version.. But here’s the colorized image just to show how it would’ve looked.
My attempt to do a “quick” colorization–that turned out to be not so quick–of a candid photo of silent film actress Bessie Love, mid-1920s.
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SCENE: Tinted, black & white 1920s photo of a young woman in overalls.
CAPTION: Delia thought she knew all about the latest trends in high fashion, but...
DELIA: Underwear? What's that?
Silent film actress Bessie Love in the mid-1920s
Fancy Pants Writer: John Lustig
silent film actress Bessie Love.Mid 120s_B&W
CAPTION: Delia thought she knew all about the latest trends in high fashion, but...
DELIA: Underwear? What's that?
Silent film actress Bessie Love in the mid-1920s
Fancy Pants Writer: John Lustig
silent film actress Bessie Love.Mid 120s_B&W
I thought that was a photo from the sixties.
I thought even later.
It looks sorta 1960-ish. But, according to Wikipedia, Bessie was born in 1898! So the photo definitely isn’t from the sixties!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Love
I recall a women’s fashion phase from the late 80’s or maybe a bit later that made overalls on women a visual delight full of side boob, top cleavage, snaps that didn’t hold, etc. Good to see things have a history. Maybe it’ll come back again before I’m too old to enjoy it.
Yes, she does look late 60’s! I think the colorized is very nice as well.
Like many other sci-fi fans, I watched the 1925 version of “The Lost World”. The stop action dinosaur battle in it is epic, and was an inspiration for many later films, including the original “King Kong”. Nice to see this fine photo of the film’s leading lady, which led me to learn more about her at the Bessie Love Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Love).
Was the original black and white photo viable to post as is?
There was an original B&W photo that I was working from. But it was very small and it took a lot of work to upsize it and correct flaws because of it’s original size/quality.
I do have a tendency–when I use early 20th Century film photos–to add a slight color tint to imitate the tinting that was common on many films of that vintage.