Happy birthday Thunderbirds

International Rescue hit our screens in the UK on this day in 1965.

The early episodes still hold up and some are genuinely exciting.

If you have never seen an episode, try this:

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Colorization

There has long been a trend to take something filmed for monochrome (black and white) and add colour to it.

We don’t know why, as the results are often, usually pretty bad.

Some people say they refuse to watch monochrome and will only accept colour. To us, this is feeble.

Seeing the results nearly always shows patchy colours, mostly browns and purples, and a general loss of sharpness. We suppose all you have to do is point AI at a clip, tell the machine to colorize it and voila…

Here’s an example. Something odd has happened to the mouths. The colour is patchy and changes and often there are still blocks of black and white.

But it’s still funny…

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It was 200 years ago today…

…roughly.

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