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Victorians In Color: Unseen Restored Film Footage Of 19th-Century Britain (2022x123)

Air date: Oct 25, 2022

Victorian Britain on Film offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film. Most of these films have been transformed by colourizing them for the first time. They offer a rare portrait of a powerful and prosperous nation – and Empire – on the cusp of great change.