Today Kodak announced that they will stop making Kodachrome transparency film. It's been coming for awhile, but it's still sad to see a film with such a history end its run.
In celebration, here are some 4x5 transparencies from the WW2 era. I think that the level of detail you can see is truly mindblowing. Even the best modern digital cameras, with the possible exception of some $60,000 digital backs, can't come anywhere near this level of image quality.
If you're interested in seeing more early color pictures, the Library of Congress has thousands of photos scanned and up on Flickr. Here's an example album.
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