# Colorized 19th and early century videos

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**Created:** [September 6, 2022, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorized-19th-and-early-century-videos/971039 "2022-09-06T07:10:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colorized-19th-and-early-century-videos/971039/21 "2022-09-09T13:23:26Z")

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In some cases (not sure if this is too late for the OP’s time frame), they actually have done things like revisit the actual parts of France/Belgium where the original video was shot to get the _actual_ foliage and soil colors correct.

That’s one thing they did in [“They Shall Not Grow Old”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Shall_Not_Grow_Old) among a whole bunch of others such as normalizing the frame rates of the hand-cranked films, etc…

[The resulting restored footage is eerie in how contemporary it looks.](https://youtu.be/LSf9eRjR-oA)

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