How does a black and white video from the past get colourized when technology back then processed in black and white?

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Let’s say in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, videos were only played in black and white. How is it now that they can be colourized? Is it a matter of people adding colour to the videos that may or may not be their actual colours or did cameras capture colour too?

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>Is it a matter of people adding colour to the videos that may or may not be their actual colours

This is it.

It used to be that when you saw something colorized a person literally like…painted the color on the black and white photo. Nowadays I’m sure a lot of it is done semi-automatically with software, especially for films as opposed to photos.

That said, generally speaking, the people colonizing old photos professionally put in a lot of work to try and make sure the colors are as accurate as possible. It’s not like they just pick whatever colors they want.

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