I’m completely addicted to this incredible YouTube channel

[Andy Meek]

I've always been gobsmacked by the fascinating degree to which simply colorizing and touching up old photos and historical or newsreel video footage can, as cliche as it sounds, make history come alive again -- with the revitalized images giving you an appreciation of the passage of time that somehow eludes the mere sight of words on a page. Director Peter Jackson did this to powerful effect with his 2018 documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, which relied on archival video footage and state-of-the-art technology to improve grainy video fragments of soldiers from World War I to spark a surprisingly emotional connection between viewers and a little-remembered period of history.

Earlier this week, I discovered a YouTube account that basically does the same thing, and I've been ridiculously hooked on it. The name of the channel is "Nineteenth century videos. Back to life," and some of my favorite clips from it include the colorized and cleaned-up footage of everything from the Titanic to a snowball fight on a random city street (the video of which dates from 1897!). Especially regarding the latter, even though the footage is still in black and white, there's something hypnotic about the improvement that's hard to describe.

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