They Were Just Like Us
On the haunting experience of watching colorized footage from a century ago.
Recently, I came across a video* on YouTube that I felt I had to share with my readers. The video is from Glamour Daze, a vintage fashion and beauty film archive. In it, viewers will find footage of various beachgoers from the 1920s, with locations ranging from Palm Beach, Florida to Biarritz, France and Odessa, Ukraine. Glamour Daze colorized the original black-and-white footage, which they retrieved from the Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina.