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[Rods2]

Colour photography was invented in 1855, with the first known three colour picture taken by Thomas Sutton in 1861. Early pictures used 3 colour filters and black and white plates, which is why they are all stills. During the 1930's advances were made in colour film technology, which allowed for much greater adoption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography

There are collections of WWI colour photographs, here are some link to a french archive where most of the colour photographs in WWI was taken by a French photographer.

http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

The colour photography certainly brings the horror much closer than the monochrome photographs we are used to seeing!

[symes]

Wow didn't know colour about then really good clear images--they look like they could have been taken days ago

[Sir Tigger KC]

Fascinating!!    Those are better images than the black and whites that we usually see from that era! 

[chrisgixer]

Much more vivid than the restored to colour films of world war 2, on one of the documentary channels not so long ago. All very interesting IMO.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Great photos, but unfortunately they do not show images of the putrid, flooded, shell holed battlefields of Passchendaele, with decaying bodies of all types, and all conditions, in an endless sea of mud.

Now they would be highly informative of the situation my great uncle Wally faced and died in at Ypres during 1917,  that all too many poor souls had to also endure.

In colour everything seems more real somehow.