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Re: Early Colour Footage of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (now RoyalObservatory Greenwich)
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2013 May 12, 14:19 -0400
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2013 May 12, 14:19 -0400
The RGO looks pretty much the same as today, with the obvious exception of the mode of dress of the tourists!
On May 12, 2013 1:42 PM, "Richard B. Langley" <lang@unb.ca> wrote:
From 1927. The RGO clip is a few minutes in. An interesting comment about astronomers, too. ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TwahIQz0o-M Ignore the viewers' comments section. On the inventor of the colour process used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Friese-Greene ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang---ca | | Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ | | Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 | | University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 | | Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 | | Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.fredericton.ca/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------