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Category Archives: Sport
Buster Crabbe – Serial King
Day 276 of Colourisation Project – February 7 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born Clarence Linden ‘Buster’ Crabbe II on this day, February 7, in 1908, he was better … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Photography, Sport, USA
Tagged Betty Grable, Buck Rogers, Buster Crabbe, Captain Gallant of the French Foreign Legion, Flash Gordon, Ida Lupino, Jungle Man (1941), King of the Congo (1952), King of the Jungle (1933), Loredana Crupi, Million Dollar Legs (1939), Search for Beauty (1934), Tarzan the Fearless, The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1933)
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Eileen Wearne – Trailblazing Sprinter
Day 268 of Colourisation Project – January 30 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. At the start of the 20th century, athletics was no place for a woman. Pierre de … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Colorization, Colourisation, Photography, Sport, Women, Women in Sport
Tagged Australia, Eileen Wearne, Eugenie Bouchard, Loredana Crupi, Olympic Games
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Up There Cazaly
Day 251 of Colourisation Project – January 13 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. “Up There Cazaly,” a catchcry familiar to any Melburnian…and if not, then the song, Up There … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Colorization, Colourisation, Photography, Sport
Tagged Loredana Crupi, Mike Brady, Peter Sullivan, Roy Cazaly, Up There Cazaly
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Wilma Rudolph – The Black Gazelle
Day 189 of Colourisation Project – November 12 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Triple Olympic gold medallist, Wilma Glodean Rudolph was never meant to walk let alone create record … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Photography, Sport, USA, Women, Women in Sport
Tagged Loredana Crupi, Olympic Games 1960, Wilma Rudolph
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The Boy from Bowral – Sir Don Bradman
Day 77 of Colourisation Project – July 23 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. It was 80 years ago on this day July 23, 1934 that Sir Donald Bradman scored 304 … Continue reading
Tour de Maurice Garin
Day 73 of Colourisation Project – July 19 As the 2014 Tour de France nears its completion, I am reminded after researching today’s subject for colourisation that cycling and the Tour de France have a very long history of cheats … Continue reading
Johnny Weissmuller – Tarzan Triumphs (in the Water)
Day 63 of Colourisation Project – July 9 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, July 9 in 1922, Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Photography, Sport, Television, USA
Tagged Johnny Weissmuller, Jungle Jim, Loredana Crupi, Maureen O'Sullivan, Tarzan, Tarzan the Ape Man
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Father of Modern Olympics – Mysoginist?
Day 47 of Colourisation Project – June 23 RECAP: The challenge is to keep within the lines. No, really, the challenge is to publish daily a photo that has some significance around the day of publication. It could be someone’s birthday … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Opus Loredana, Photography, Sport, Women, Women in Sport
Tagged Fanny Blankers-Koen, Fanny Durack, International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jesse Owens, Loredana Crupi, Olympic Games, Opus Loredana, Pierre de Coubertin, The Sporting Image: Unsung Heroes of the Olympics 1896-2012, Thom Vanstone, Women in Sport
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The Best Known Englishman of His Time
Day 23 of Colourisation Project – May 30th Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Today’s subject would not look out of place making a single-origin espresso on High St with … Continue reading
Posted in Britain, Colorization, Colourisation, Cricket, Photography, Sport
Tagged colorization, colourisation, Cricket, Loredana Crupi, photography, vintage photography, WG Grace
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