Four minutes of 1914 India in color that shouldn't exist. Time travel, no DeLorean needed.
Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.
Cinematography
Hand-tinted 1914 color that predates proper Technicolor.
Production
Impossible footage of a world that no longer exists.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was shot using additive color processes—likely Kinemacolor or similar—making it among the earliest color footage of South Asia.
Puducherry remained French territory until 1954; this footage captures a colonial middle-space, neither fully Indian nor French, now utterly vanished.
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