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Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 17 Mar 2015, 18:35
by Chrissie777
Lovely pics, Anita. Thanks.
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 17 Mar 2015, 18:52
by Anita Bensoussane
Robert Houghton wrote:Is there any evidence that this colour photo by the bookcase is indeed 'colourised'? I guess it could be, but to me it looks a natural colour photo of the period. Surely if it was colourised, the colourist wouldn't have gone to the trouble of perfectly matching all the colours on all the book spines? It looks to me like a typical coloured photo of the 1950's.
We had a discussion about that earlier and I don't think we came to any definite conclusion, but the colours don't look quite natural.
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 17 Mar 2015, 18:56
by Chrissie777
Part of EB's hair on that color pic looks bluish to me. I know that some decades ago older ladies in Germany had a bluish...almost purple...tone in their silvery hair, but am not sure if that was already invented before 1968?
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 17 Mar 2015, 19:21
by Rob Houghton
I know that in the 1950's coloured photos did look more unnatural, but presumed it was more to do with the coloured printing process, rather than them being coloured. I know my mom had a lot of 'Hollywood Albums' in the 50's with similarly coloured photos, and they always looked gloriously garish! I like the style of them, however.
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 18 Jun 2015, 10:15
by pete9012S
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I don't recall seeing this picture of Enid before.
She looks extremely happy.
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 18 Jun 2015, 10:50
by Tony Summerfield
This was taken at the dress rehearsal of the Noddy in Toyland play at the Princes Theatre in December 1955. Enid is with Patricia Cree who plays Silky. It is nice that not all my files are just a waste of space on my computer!
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 18 Jun 2015, 11:07
by Julie2owlsdene
That is a lovely picture of Enid Blyton, Pete.
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 18 Jun 2015, 11:12
by Courtenay
What a lovely photo of them both. Very interesting to see this slice of Blyton history!
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 18 Jun 2015, 13:59
by Anita Bensoussane
A great photo! Interesting to note that Silky the elf hasn't got wings. Some of the Faraway Tree illustrators have given her wings in the books.
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 18 Jun 2015, 15:13
by Daisy
I suppose in 1955 there were only the Dorothy Wheeler illustrations to go by.
Re: Photos of Enid
Posted: 18 Jun 2015, 20:23
by Lucky Star
Great picture, they both look like they are having lots of fun.