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LRB · Tom Crewe · Short Cuts: Colourisation
'What was it like growing up in black and white?' was a question I asked my mother once. Until that moment her memories of childhood, so much more engrossing than any bedtime story, had unspooled in my head in perfect greyscale. (They do still, in childish defiance of the facts.)
How the 'Island of the Colourblind' made Oliver Sacks rethink 'normal' | Aeon Videos
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"The colours that suddenly flood into the streets of 1910s New York aren’t drawn from the celluloid itself; that information was never captured there. The extra frames added to smooth those New Yorkers’ 60 frame-a-second strolls are brand new too."
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/history-colourisation-controversy?utm_source=pocket-newtab
