[Capt Quahog]

Friend has some color Kodachrome movies shot in Boston during the 1938 period. His father was making films of Boston Elevated Railway streetcars. All sorts of traffic is seen whizzing through the scenes. What always struck me was the mostly dark painted automobiles. Many later model cars of the 1930s had white side wall tires which seem to emphasis the dark finishes. There are of course many Model A Fords rolling through the scenes with most of them looking to be totally black.