Colorized scene from MGM's "Astro Kid", 1963

Colorized with some liberties on the background.

Welder fabricating hull plates for Navy transports, Denver, CO, 1942

Colorized from a May 1942 photo. Th exact work looks more like the welder is cutting through a metal rod than actually welding, but could be just one of the minor work in the fabrication process.

"What are you looking at? Haven't seen me in the beauty parlor before?"

Colorized day at the beauty parlor with kid and pet. Possibly taken in the late 60s.

"That Costco playhouse is a bore. Oh, look, my dad left his new TOY. Let's see. Yes, this is how he does it. Hmmm, must be defective. Can't see a thing."

Young Joan Collins, 1956

Colorized for a 1956 photo of Joan Collins by Yousuf Karsh. With some liberties altering the background.

Conestoga wagon on the Oregon trail, 1961 re-enactment

Colorized and top-cropped photo of a 1961 re-enactment of the Oregon Trail that started in 1811 by fur traders, and became a full wagon trail by 1836.

Joan Collins in the 50s

Back to celebrity portraits, this time from television. Here is my colorized take of the young Joan Collins ca 1950s. After appearing in several B movies, she would become a celebrity as Alexis Carrington of "Dynasty" one of the most popular and longest running soap in the 80s.

Young Joan Collins, ca 1950s

Colorized a downloaded image of the young Joan Collins taken in the early-mid 1950s. Considered as the Poor Man's Elizabeth Taylor, she would be hired as a standby close in for Liz Taylor in the movie "Cleopatra" when Liz was hospitalized for a few weeks. I don't think she ever got to stand in for her, as Liz immediately went back to the set after her hospitalization.

Colorized photo of a WW2 close combat between a GI and a German infantry

The photo is possibly a re-enactment, but the photo composition is excellent.  Undated and no location indicated in the original downloaded from a Pinterest site.  It's possibly a re-enactment.

Colorized photo of American liberators as they watch the Eiffel tower fly the French Tricolors again

This is a colorized photo taken after the liberation of France in Aug 1944, as the tricolors were hoisted back to its rightful position atop the historic Eiffel Tower. Hitler had earlier ordered this land landmark destroyed along with the entire Pari when he heard about the upcoming liberation of the country. The City fell to German occupation on June 14, 1940, French resistance fighters allegedly cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower. This meant that if Hitler wanted to hoist a swastika flag, a soldier would have to climb the roughly 1710 stairs to the summit platform.

As Allies neared Paris in August 1944, a Frenchman scaled the tower and hung the French flag. When it became obvious that the Germans would lose Paris, Hitler ordered General Dietrich von Choltitz, the military governor of Paris, to turn the city into rubble – including the Eiffel Tower. General von Choltitz did not carry out the command. Reportedly, within hours of the Liberation of Paris, the Tower’s lifts worked again.

Colorized re-enactment of a close combat between a Polish and German infantry at the Battle of Mlawa, Northern Poland, Sep 1939

Colorized with some liberties recreating smoke on the foreground.  This is a re-enacted shot conducted by the Polish government using authentic artillery and actual German Lufthwaffe aircraft sometime in 2015 .  Story of the history battle that preceded the fall of Poland to Hitler here

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) by Yousuf Karsh

Colorized photo of Albert Einstein taken by Yousuf Karsh ca 1940s in two versions. Same colorized photo was stylized as an alternate visual content.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) by Johan Hagemeyer

Colorized portrait of Albert Einstein from a photo by Johan Hagemeyer, 1931, Colorized in two versions.