Stumbled across this on YouTube - Unfortunately Video is Gone!

"After much back-and-forth, on September 27, 1988, the National Film Preservation Act^[28] became law. The Act created the National Film Preservation Board and it, together with the Librarian of Congress, curate the National Film Registry of “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”^[29] films. Each year, twenty-five films are selected to be preserved in the National Film Board Collection at the Library of Congress. Outside experts and the public can recommend films for inclusion, and once a film is added, any version of the film that is “materially altered”^[30] (such as colorized), needs to be labeled as such."

It's a Colorful Life: Colorizing Black and White Movies - HeinOnline

@wjstix posted:

"After much back-and-forth, on September 27, 1988, the National Film Preservation Act^[28] became law. The Act created the National Film Preservation Board and it, together with the Librarian of Congress, curate the National Film Registry of “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”^[29] films. Each year, twenty-five films are selected to be preserved in the National Film Board Collection at the Library of Congress. Outside experts and the public can recommend films for inclusion, and once a film is added, any version of the film that is “materially altered”^[30] (such as colorized), needs to be labeled as such."

It's a Colorful Life: Colorizing Black and White Movies - HeinOnline

Thank you for the link above, I am "unintentionally" learning a lot.

Jimmy Stewart's comments on; It's a Wonderful Life, will prevent me from EVER watching a colorized version in the future!  I have watched it numerous times, and strange as it seems, one time starting watching the colorized version and ended up turning it off because I got bored with it.  I thought I must not be in the mood to watch it again, but after reading Mr Stewart's comment maybe that wasn't it at all.  Funny how the mind works.

Guys....this thread has gotten off track big time.  Either keep the discussion about the content of the original video posted by the starter of the thread or I can close it.

Jim, thanks for posting! Train videos are always enjoyable irrespective of the quality. I'm doing my best to add to the view count, but alas, I had cataract surgery on my *strong* eye not 6 hours ago, so without debating the merits of colorization and the like, I'll simply state it is presently ALL blurry and will watch in it's entirety in a couple days. OGR was in my first line of site once I got home from  the hospital, but I can't handle 1:03:27 tonight.

I also agree with you about running period cars with period locos. I have a few *modern* tanks cars that never would have been built when the respective road name was still in existence.

Thanks again, and keep 'em coming!

Bob (PS: I did learn a few things in all the side-barbs)

@endless tracks posted:

Jim, thanks for posting! Train videos are always enjoyable irrespective of the quality. I'm doing my best to add to the view count, but alas, I had cataract surgery on my *strong* eye not 6 hours ago, so without debating the merits of colorization and the like, I'll simply state it is presently ALL blurry and will watch in it's entirety in a couple days. OGR was in my first line of site once I got home from  the hospital, but I can't handle 1:03:27 tonight.

I also agree with you about running period cars with period locos. I have a few *modern* tanks cars that never would have been built when the respective road name was still in existence.

Thanks again, and keep 'em coming!

Bob (PS: I did learn a few things in all the side-barbs)

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!  Unfortunately the YouTube Video is gone.

Good news is there are lots of other good Steam Era Videos on YouTube.  There are a lot of the films produced by the various railroads.  I bought quite a few VHS tapes from Pentrex back in the 1990's they had converted.  Now many of them are available for viewing on YouTube.  I haven't looked at the tapes in years as my VHS recorder started having issues.  I purposely had bought one you could advance frame by frame so I could examine details of the train consists.

@MainLine Steam posted:

Best wishes for a speedy recovery!  Unfortunately the YouTube Video is gone.

Thanks for letting me know. And thanks for well-wishes. So far so good!