Rare Photos Of Famous Disasters You Have Never Seen Before, Restored In Color
Never Gray
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65 rare historical photographs of disasters, crashes, fires and close calls, from 1872 to 1999. Each one first in black and white as it survives today, then restored in color, with the story of what you are looking at read aloud.
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Photographs in this film:
0:06 1872 A dentist pulls a tooth while his assistant holds the patien
0:19 1895 The Granville-Paris express after it ran through the wall of
0:32 1896 Otto Lilienthal, the first man to fly a glider again and aga
0:45 1900 A patient restrained in a French asylum, 1900.
0:58 1905 Visiting quarantined relatives through the fence at Ulleval
1:11 1906 Downtown San Francisco after the earthquake of 18 April 1906
1:24 1910 The Titanic's propellers, about 1910.
1:37 1912 Titanic lifeboat 6 reaches the Carpathia, 15 April 1912. Mol
1:50 1912 Relatives wait at Southampton for news of Titanic survivors,
2:03 1912 The Olympic, the Titanic's sister, in dry dock in Belfast, 1
2:16 1913 A Mongolian woman sentenced to die of starvation in a box, 1
2:29 1918 A policeman berates a man for not wearing his mask in the Sp
2:42 1918 An opium party in France, 1918.
2:55 1920 A lingerie model poses with her dog, Paris, 1920. Pictures l
3:08 1920 An angry patient adds "Liar" under a sign for a "Painless de
3:21 1926 An engineer inspects the bridge that collapsed under his loc
3:34 1929 A janitor sweeps the floor of the New York Stock Exchange af
3:47 1929 A log from a timber truck driven straight through a car, Buf
4:00 1931 Men on top of the Great Pyramid watch the Graf Zeppelin floa
4:13 1932 Showgirls in San Francisco, 1932.
4:26 1932 The Hindenburg takes shape, 1932.
4:39 1933 A beauty contest in Dalat, French Indochina, 1933.
4:52 1936 The Hindenburg floats past the Empire State Building, 1936.
5:05 1937 The Hindenburg bursts into flames at Lakehurst, 6 May 1937.
5:18 1937 An injured Hindenburg survivor smokes a cigarette as he is c
5:31 1937 The wreck of the Hindenburg, May 1937.
5:44 1941 The destroyer USS Shaw explodes at Pearl Harbor, 7 December
5:57 1941 A building collapses during the Blitz, London, 1941.
6:10 1941 The USS Oklahoma raised after capsizing at Pearl Harbor, whe
6:23 1943 A British army dentist treats a patient in a ruined building
6:36 1944 American military police toast bread over molten lava from V
6:49 1945 The Empire State Building after a B-25 bomber flew into it,
7:02 1947 A car park a quarter of a mile from the Texas City explosion
7:15 1948 Girls in bikinis sunbathe on a rooftop, late 1940s.
7:28 1949 Viet Minh soldiers celebrate in front of a burning French st
7:41 1952 Demonstrators throw stones at police in the May Day riots, T
7:54 1954 The Gill-man and his stunt double play between takes of Crea
8:07 1955 A little girl watches a nurse prepare the polio vaccine, 195
8:20 1955 A Ford hit by a commuter train, Los Angeles, 1955.
8:33 1957 A street in Madrid after the ground gave way, 1957.
8:46 1960 A man's glasses fly apart as a police truncheon hits him, 19
8:59 1961 The Tsar Bomba, the largest explosion ever made, seen from 1
9:12 1962 FLIP, a research ship built to tip up on end and float verti
9:25 1963 Roger Miller at the wreck of the plane that killed Patsy Cli
9:38 1964 The Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964.
9:51 1966 Beatles records burned in Georgia, 1966.
10:04 1967 Jim Morrison on stage in 1967, the night he became the first
10:17 1970 Crowds look at a turret salvaged from the wreck of the battl
10:30 1973 Jackie Chan, eighteen, as a stuntman in Enter the Dragon, 19
10:43 1975 A North Vietnamese tank crashes through the gates of Saigon'
10:56 1979 President Carter tours Three Mile Island days after the acci
11:09 1980 A jet skier with Mount St. Helens erupting behind him, 18 Ma
11:22 1980 Tour de France riders pass a fan in a bikini on the Col de l
11:35 1980 A Vietnamese farmer beside the wreck of a B-52, about 1980.
11:48 1982 The Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sinks after an attack
12:01 1986 One and a half million balloons released over Cleveland, 198
12:14 1986 The only photograph of Chernobyl on the morning of the disas
12:27 1989 A Nebraska woman with a tornado behind her, 1989.
12:40 1991 Thousands of Albanian refugees arrive at Bari, Italy, 1991.
12:53 1991 Firefighters seal a burning oil well in Kuwait, 1991.
13:06 1991 US Marines in front of the burning Burgan oil fields, Kuwait
13:19 1992 Two Korean shopkeepers defend their store in the Los Angeles
13:32 1999 Medics work on the wrestler Owen Hart after his 78-foot fall
13:45 1999 A building in Belgrade burns after a NATO strike, 1999.
13:58 1999 Protest at the US embassy in Beijing after NATO bombed the C
The photographs are real. The color is restored with AI; nothing in the pictures themselves is generated.
#historicalphotos #rarephotos #history
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Every photo here is shown twice: first the original black and white, then the same frame restored in color. The color is an interpretation, the black and white is the document.
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Rare Photos Of Famous Disasters You Have Never Seen Before, Restored In Color
Never Gray
784 views
65 rare historical photographs of disasters, crashes, fires and close calls, from 1872 to 1999. Each one first in black and white as it survives today, then restored in color, with the story of what you are looking at read aloud.
More films in this series: Rare Historical Photos Restored In Color
Photographs in this film:
0:06 1872 A dentist pulls a tooth while his assistant holds the patien
0:19 1895 The Granville-Paris express after it ran through the wall of
0:32 1896 Otto Lilienthal, the first man to fly a glider again and aga
0:45 1900 A patient restrained in a French asylum, 1900.
0:58 1905 Visiting quarantined relatives through the fence at Ulleval
1:11 1906 Downtown San Francisco after the earthquake of 18 April 1906
1:24 1910 The Titanic's propellers, about 1910.
1:37 1912 Titanic lifeboat 6 reaches the Carpathia, 15 April 1912. Mol
1:50 1912 Relatives wait at Southampton for news of Titanic survivors,
2:03 1912 The Olympic, the Titanic's sister, in dry dock in Belfast, 1
2:16 1913 A Mongolian woman sentenced to die of starvation in a box, 1
2:29 1918 A policeman berates a man for not wearing his mask in the Sp
2:42 1918 An opium party in France, 1918.
2:55 1920 A lingerie model poses with her dog, Paris, 1920. Pictures l
3:08 1920 An angry patient adds "Liar" under a sign for a "Painless de
3:21 1926 An engineer inspects the bridge that collapsed under his loc
3:34 1929 A janitor sweeps the floor of the New York Stock Exchange af
3:47 1929 A log from a timber truck driven straight through a car, Buf
4:00 1931 Men on top of the Great Pyramid watch the Graf Zeppelin floa
4:13 1932 Showgirls in San Francisco, 1932.
4:26 1932 The Hindenburg takes shape, 1932.
4:39 1933 A beauty contest in Dalat, French Indochina, 1933.
4:52 1936 The Hindenburg floats past the Empire State Building, 1936.
5:05 1937 The Hindenburg bursts into flames at Lakehurst, 6 May 1937.
5:18 1937 An injured Hindenburg survivor smokes a cigarette as he is c
5:31 1937 The wreck of the Hindenburg, May 1937.
5:44 1941 The destroyer USS Shaw explodes at Pearl Harbor, 7 December
5:57 1941 A building collapses during the Blitz, London, 1941.
6:10 1941 The USS Oklahoma raised after capsizing at Pearl Harbor, whe
6:23 1943 A British army dentist treats a patient in a ruined building
6:36 1944 American military police toast bread over molten lava from V
6:49 1945 The Empire State Building after a B-25 bomber flew into it,
7:02 1947 A car park a quarter of a mile from the Texas City explosion
7:15 1948 Girls in bikinis sunbathe on a rooftop, late 1940s.
7:28 1949 Viet Minh soldiers celebrate in front of a burning French st
7:41 1952 Demonstrators throw stones at police in the May Day riots, T
7:54 1954 The Gill-man and his stunt double play between takes of Crea
8:07 1955 A little girl watches a nurse prepare the polio vaccine, 195
8:20 1955 A Ford hit by a commuter train, Los Angeles, 1955.
8:33 1957 A street in Madrid after the ground gave way, 1957.
8:46 1960 A man's glasses fly apart as a police truncheon hits him, 19
8:59 1961 The Tsar Bomba, the largest explosion ever made, seen from 1
9:12 1962 FLIP, a research ship built to tip up on end and float verti
9:25 1963 Roger Miller at the wreck of the plane that killed Patsy Cli
9:38 1964 The Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964.
9:51 1966 Beatles records burned in Georgia, 1966.
10:04 1967 Jim Morrison on stage in 1967, the night he became the first
10:17 1970 Crowds look at a turret salvaged from the wreck of the battl
10:30 1973 Jackie Chan, eighteen, as a stuntman in Enter the Dragon, 19
10:43 1975 A North Vietnamese tank crashes through the gates of Saigon'
10:56 1979 President Carter tours Three Mile Island days after the acci
11:09 1980 A jet skier with Mount St. Helens erupting behind him, 18 Ma
11:22 1980 Tour de France riders pass a fan in a bikini on the Col de l
11:35 1980 A Vietnamese farmer beside the wreck of a B-52, about 1980.
11:48 1982 The Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sinks after an attack
12:01 1986 One and a half million balloons released over Cleveland, 198
12:14 1986 The only photograph of Chernobyl on the morning of the disas
12:27 1989 A Nebraska woman with a tornado behind her, 1989.
12:40 1991 Thousands of Albanian refugees arrive at Bari, Italy, 1991.
12:53 1991 Firefighters seal a burning oil well in Kuwait, 1991.
13:06 1991 US Marines in front of the burning Burgan oil fields, Kuwait
13:19 1992 Two Korean shopkeepers defend their store in the Los Angeles
13:32 1999 Medics work on the wrestler Owen Hart after his 78-foot fall
13:45 1999 A building in Belgrade burns after a NATO strike, 1999.
13:58 1999 Protest at the US embassy in Beijing after NATO bombed the C
The photographs are real. The color is restored with AI; nothing in the pictures themselves is generated.
#historicalphotos #rarephotos #history
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