Ok I dug through the archive and found this video I guess I downloaded 4-5 years ago... Gonna post some pics from it.... It's actually the clearest color video of Pearl Harbor around Mid '42.... It's a compilation video, it starts with scenes of the navy tugs pulling the Wee Vee to drydock.... you get to see 5-S on the Wee Vee (stacks and starboard hull and her scorched blackened port side from where the oil fires were raging and she was taking a lot of heat) you get to see a tug in several shots, one in 5-S, and later on one in 5-D..... we also get a shot of the bow of the Arizona not much you can say there but they have a VERY clear shot of the Wee Vee's aft crane in 5-S....
Now normally we could cite the age of the film and it's probable color shifting.... but understand the color pics of that 5-S crane are very important...
It then move on to shots of downtown Honolulu, people walking past a storefront with excellent reflections in the windows where you can see the color reflections of the clothes people are wearing... Lots of skin tones of all nationalities and ethnic groups, pretty good images, watch for the lady wearing a dark blue dress carrying a bright red purse, then tell me about color shift...
It then moves on to the dry docking of the Nevada, we get to see more tugs in all three colors, 5-D, 5-S & the last one in a nice fresh coat of 5-N and you can easily see the red navigation lightbox on the port side bridge... but the best part of this film is it captures a battleship in 5-D which was the color scheme of the Nevada the day of the raid.... it shows the name plate on the stern in black, the hull sides in black the port side that is very weathered faded black/grey and going back to the stern a virtually undamaged aircraft crane in the same position as the Wee Vee, in stunning greyish black 5-D. A direct comparison of 5-D to 5-S with a full shot of a tug in a fresh coat of very dark 5-N........
Lots of pics so I may break it up into several uploads....
Here are the shots of the Wee Vee....
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File comment: Re-floated under tow
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File comment: Port side stern, see the nice blue stacks?
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File comment: Starboard side stern again the nice blue stacks looks like the boat crane has some blue also
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File comment: Starboard hull, might that be a hint of blue?
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File comment: OH YESS!!! That's BLUE hull if I ever saw one, 5-S I'll bet....
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I guess what we are seeing here is that the Wee Vee was painted blue, obviously in Measure 11, Sea Blue scheme...
As a comparison lets see a tugboat in Sea Blue....
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File comment: Yep that looks like Sea Blue to me....
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File comment: Pulling into dry dock now, take a look at the superstructure below the bridges in red lead and above the bare metal turrets, is that blue poking about in the recesses there?
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I think it is pretty safe to say the Wee Vee was blue before the attack... and it looks like her painting was completed...
Now lets address the idea of color shift... Color shift will make a set range of colors appear different than the really are in comparison to each other, Blues appear darker than they really were and reds next to them will take on a bluish tint like become slightly purplish, yellow greens will take on a deeper green color and whites will take on a bluish haze....
Lets see how this film hold up....
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File comment: Oh my look at that red sweater against the dark blue dress, no hints of purple there...
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File comment: Look at that red purse, blue dress multi color belt, the pale yellow shirt, the bluish grey striped dress, the skin tones in both shadow and light.... No color shift there...
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One more then we will get on with the navy color comparisons....
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File comment: One has to take a look at the tan building side the red coke sign and the pink dress, Perfect color division no bleed over and no color shift....
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Next post we go on to the Nevada, which we know was in Measure 1 5-D scheme... (Blacker than black)
EG