"Biggest Logistical Flex Of All Time - Berlin Airlift" | Kip Reacts to The Fat Electrician

Fellow Legends, welcome! Today we dive into another amazing Fat Electrician video, this time where we deep dive the events that transpired in Berlin after WWII. Just because the conflict ended doesn't mean that people weren't struggling, and the East & West divide in post WWII Berlin was no exception. This also leads into the Berlin Wall, which in its own right holds much weight and symbolism for the era. I absolutely loved watching this, and if you did as well then I do absolutely recommend that you go and check out the original video to show some support for the source material!
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[@sierramike0913]

"Necessity is the mother of innovation, and desperation is the bastard father," is how I like to put it.

[@michaelfranciotti3900]

I'm stealing this.

[@sierramike0913]

@@michaelfranciotti3900 You have my blessing, and if you want to make it have some more credence, you can say "An Army logistician told me that..."

[@michaelfranciotti3900]

@@sierramike0913 will do. Thanks for serving.

[@sierramike0913]

@@michaelfranciotti3900 Thanks for your support.

[@collinfulling3223]

The UN would’ve stepped in with a stern letter and politely telling the USSR to not

[@hannibal-rb3go]

"Don't"

[@kenvaill300]

USSR: "Sorry, but I could not not."

[@a_guy_and_dude4447]

​@@kenvaill300UN:"can you not?" USSR:"sorry but no, I can not not"

[@Kez_DXX]

The UN would vote to do something to stop the offending nation and the offending nation along with all the other countries in their sphere of influence would vote no.

[@goldenhate6649]

@@Kez_DXX Nah, Russia is on the security council, they'd just veto it

[@TheMajorActual]

Color film (not 'colorized') has been around since at least the 1930's...but it was _expensive._ It was used in WW2, but not very often. In the immediate aftermath of the war, color film cameras became more prevalent and cheaper to use, although black-n-white remained cheaper and easier to use until the early 60's.

[@jamesmueller1518]

In recent history ( not sure when exactly, but I'd say at least 10-15 years ago) they were able to turn black and white film into color-ish. It wasn't perfect, but it worked

[@MegaHI32]

I was actually jumping into the comments to say just this exactly. And even after colour TVs were a thing lots of channels, especially older news channels aired in Black and White, or partially so, until making the switch over at some point

[@fixman88]

@@jamesmueller1518 It was in the 80s actually. Ted Turner (owner of Turner Broadcasting) was famous (or infamous) for 'colorizing' classic films (of which his company owned a LOT).

[@fixman88]

@@MegaHI32 Color television was invented in the early 50s and formalized in 1956 with the NTSC standard. However, early color TV sets cost as much as a car so you had to be rich to get one, which meant there weren't many around at first, which meant it didn't make financial sense for TV studios to switch to color for years; NBC became the first 'All Color Network' only around 1967 or so and color TVs didn't surpass the number of black and white ones in the US until 1977 or so.

[@cranberrysauce61]

quick addendum from my quick research about color in film: 1902: A Trip to the Moon, first 'colored' movie. filmed black and white, people hand colored the frames. 1902: Also, Edward Raymond Turner in the UK was working on a filming system to record in color, while he could record images for color, he couldn't make a projector to display them. 1908: Kinemacolor technique used for the film A visit to the Seaside. utilized 2 different color filters (red and green) on alternating frames to simulate some colors. 1914: Technicolor invented and started being experimented with 1916: technicolor used a prism to put a red and green filtered onto a single film strip, i dare say this is the first method of capturing multiple colors onto a single from on a strip of film. 1932: technicolor used a process to split the captured image into to expose 3 independent strips that would capture the different primary hues of light (red, green and blue). first of which that can display 'true' color, the first movie using this process is the Wizard of OZ. all before WW2. so yeah, color film was around... but how prevalent it was, is a different matter

[@anlydaly5726]

The CANDY BOMBER 🍬 is my favorite part of this story ... just a random act of kindness that just spiraled into becoming one of the most memorable parts of the biggest humanitarian effort in history ... just ... legendary

[@Isolder74]

And he did it because he saw how grateful a group of kids were after being given only 2 sticks of gum. Imagine if those children had fought over that gum instead of sharing it?

[@Anson_AKB]

the planes of the airlift were nicknamed by berliners _"Rosinenbomber"_ ("raisin bombers"). the german name for the entire operation was _"Luftbrücke"_ (air bridge).

[@chrismaverick9828]

One of the most important things to have in a free society is the ability to question things. Policy, social trends, knowledge, process. If anyone tells you that you cannot question any of those at your leisure, they don't believe in a free society.

[@Maria_Erias]

Something my father used to say when I was a kid: "I may not believe what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." Freedom of speech isn't just about ensuring that you are free to speak, but that everyone else is, as well.

[@ZergSlayer-dn5zb]

@@Maria_Erias That, my friend, is a quote from Voltaire. You have a wise father.

[@voraciousblackstn]

The Berlin Airlift was also the main reason that NATO was formed. It was founded right before the blockade was lifted.

[@viperbike2489]

"i ain't saying sh*t" thats aight kip he says more then enough

[@horace7346]

The story of the Berlin Airlift is amazing and extremely heartwarming.

[@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly]

Attacking communism isn't "political", it's pro-human.

[@goldenhate6649]

Its one of those things that is a great thought experiment, but humans are completely incapable of making happen because it replaces personal gain motivation (aka, the only way to get people to voluntarily do something productive on a mass scale), and replaces it with 'for the people' which very few people care about. And of course, that turns into, do it or I'll unalive you.

[@rmartinson19]

Well said. 100+ Million murdered souls and counting. By bodycount, it is the most evil ideology to ever exist.

[@calebschultz9935]

Based! Who cares what anyone else says that is based!

[@ZergSlayer-dn5zb]

@@calebschultz9935 "Why are you booing me, I'm right!"

[@DiggitySlice]

There's a fair amount of "politics" that fall under this. That's why I have to shake my head whenever someone says "I'm not political" because they're basically saying "I don't care how people are treated, including myself"

[@RetroBlockade]

Color film has been around since almost the start of cinema with the invention of Kinemacolor in 1906 however it was very expensive and only came in red and green. In 1932, Technicolor invented a new method of color film that was used in Disney movies, however it was still really expensive so it was reserved for the block buster movies. It wasn't until the late 1950s that color became economical and began to overtake black and white in popularity. That being said, a lot of the images from WW2 have been colorized and were originally in black and white.

[@AnthonyYang002]

"Kip, you're usually so thoughtful and insightful" "I don't want to be 😢" - Kip, probably Lol

[@xiiguardian]

I wish they focused on these beautiful human moments in history classes more.

[@KipReacts]

I get why I didn't in public school. There's so much that teachers are required to do and cover already that things unfortunately get passed over. Which makes independent research and videos like this amazing to watch and learn new things through.

[@Ravensgale]

11:54 I feel this because me and some of my weekly D&D group shot the shit for about two or three hours about media glorification on the Shinsengumi and how they actually were despite depictions of them in media.

[@Stumbo99]

Man, you wanna get a wake-up call on the true face of the Yakuza read Tokyo vice and Tokyo underworld. Those books are unbelievably eye opening on the true face of the Yakuza and how corrupt the country is as a whole

[@ChappyGrimdark]

I'll be honest, this story makes me emotional

[@Flippyrock2011]

You should checked out Drachinifel for wwii naval combat lore, a bit long but very interesting and fun to watch with his dry British humor and reference. I recommend his Mark14 torpedo or his two part on Russian 2nd pacific squadron (the voyage and battle)

[@Nightmare_52]

also the naval darwin awards, bloody hilarious and interesting

[@Isolder74]

The second Pacific squadron is a three parter if you include the five minute guide on the Kampchaka.

[@firestorm165]

no joke that man is responsible for reigniting my interest in engineering

[@Flippyrock2011]

@@Isolder74 ah yes the "do you see torpedo boat?" Kampchaka.

[@fixman88]

One of my personal favorites of his is the one about French Pre-Dreadnought Battleships (When Hotels Go To War).

[@GreenSargent]

I bought one of the Henson handles and it is the best safety razor I’ve ever had. I used the old clamshell style for ten years and this one blew my mind. No razor burn, nicks, or cuts. It is my absolute favorite razor of all time not to mention it doesn’t clog up. I personally bought mine from Dr. Squatch but that’s because they have an exclusive green version. So ya I highly recommend them. Plus if you go online you can find a blade sharpener for those old blades to make them last even longer.

[@William_Bryant]

Truly the only vtuber I legitimately respect.

[@vincentrheker3913]

UK / US: "We don't have enough space to land all these planes" Germany: "Hold my Bier"

[@greyarchamedisblackthorn]

Every now and than I just imagine Kip as a Fallout New Vegas NPC only available with Wild Wasteland, that you can just find at random places... and just says nothing in regards to said places and instead just rambles about history... now I want kip audio rambling about the history of the B.o.S., the Enclave, the NCR, New Vegas, and Caesar's Legion.

[@Demonclaw92]

first usage of color film to what i know of was on "Wizard of OZ" which was released back in 1939.

[@thewaltman4]

As someone who does own a Henson razor, you do have to treat it like a safety razor, but they give you all the info needed on using it and such.

[@sirawsome1997]

As an owner of a Henson's razor, I absolutely love it. Heavily recommend it.

[@aaronhenley4741]

Honestly, I would rather hang out with you and your friends discussing those topics since it keeps my aging brain sharp.

[@teaxelsen]

isn't that a normal thing to talk about?

[@Anson_AKB]

_told by my parents and grandparents:_ there was no wall yet at that time and people could move more or less freely. but during and after the war food and goods were rationed and that was not yet abolished. during the airlift, the east offered to feed people in west berlin IF they exchanged their western ration cards for eastern ration cards, thus showing how "nice" they would be and being able to spread how many people would leave the west and join the east. but almost nobody did that, and instead voluntarily restricted living conditions to stay part of the non-communist west. quite paradoxically, the existance of rationing everything which still existed in berlin longer than elsewhere and that of course wasn't liked too much, also helped a lot in organizing the distribution of goods and food during the airlift, and thus now was gladly accepted. ps: not only a new airport was built, but since berlin also has lots of waterways and one of the rivers turns into a big lake (look at the blue water west of the british flag on the map that was shown) part of the air fleet were water airplanes to land/water and unload on that third location in berlin.

[@DerpyTurtle0762]

Has Kip reacted to the Humvee video yet? Kip definitely needs to watch the Humvee video.

[@A_Simple_Zock]

22:04 The Japanese: we sank 2 boats, they dropped the sun on us *TWICE*

[@MrPingn]

We're very sensitive about our boats.

[@Isolder74]

They permanently sank Three boats the rest we brought back from the dead out of spite.

[@Ratkill9000]

It was a "Proportional" response.

[@EcnavMC]

Once for each boat.

[@williamstevens4172]

That henson ad was a legitimate breath of fresh air for how a company should handle advertising and customer expectations

[@greenrena8503]

The lengths this man will go to avoid the metric system!

[@KipReacts]

It's honestly impressive.

[@ozrithclay6921]

Technologically speaking on the color footage from world war two: We had mechanical color footage dating back prior to World War 2. But electronic footage was still in black & white until the late 60s. Also, there is a lot of footage from World War 2 that was colorized in the 90s.

[@themontser123]

Funny enough. The USAF had Lockheed-Gerogia develope and deliver the C-5A Galaxy in 1970 to the 437th Airlift Wing in South Carolina and had a max cargo load of 281,001 pounds which is 140 and a half TONS of cargo. Fun Fact.

[@Good20win11]

Hey Kip the colored film you are seeing is colorized black and white film, and was not actually recorded in color. Essentially this black and white footage is by colored with by tinting everything frame by frame.

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

Yes we had colour film even before WW2 - which meant colour photos AND videos. What we didn't have until quite a bit later was the ability to _show_ the colour video - at least not outside of cinema. The same thing holds true of High Definition video - we had the ability to record HD content a while before we had the ability to actually show it on TV. In fact, we've had the ability to record in 1080p since the late 80s early 90s but it took about 15 years before HD broadcasts became commonplace alongside HD tvs. And the same is true of 4K which we had the ability to record at since the early 2000s, although the difference here is the adoption of 4K TVs and monitors has been much quicker than the adoption of HD TVs and monitors, once they figured out how to manufacture them.

[@LWolf12]

As the old adage says, necessity is the mother of all inventions.

[@Aondish]

1:39 I have used a safety razor for years. Best shave yet. Working on getting my first straight razor. But can confirm that any safety razor will take any safety razor blade. You will not regret making the change. Just do some research as they do take some getting used to.

[@DerekKnop]

I have always hated shaving, no razor, electric or disposable, ever worked. I spent years just trimming with a body shaver every week to avoid shaving. On the recommendation of TFE's endorsement of Henson I bought a Henson Aluminum razor, checked out a couple of youtube videos on how to use a DE safety razor (shout out OhioShaves) and just went with it. I've never had a better shave and I've never liked the shaving process more. It was literally life changing for me.

[@patricktennant1585]

I've used a safety and straight razor for 15 yrs. Nothing makes a better beard or mustache edge than a straight razor but its difficult to keep the edge. Safety razors are great.

[@Kez_DXX]

Kip there was a documentary with a lot of color film from the second world war titled WWII in HD. The opening of the first episode is very shock and awe

[@kilchil5438]

In the words of the great warrior poet Ice Cube - if a day does not require an Ak it is good.

[@cho-yv6kk]

In 1902, when the first colorized film A Trip to the Moon appeared on the screen, the earliest example of true color cinema appeared. This technology was invented by Briton Edward Turner in 1899.

[@vladyvhv9579]

By now, we all know Rule #1 is "don't F*** with the USA's boats". Rule #2 is "don't tell the USA and its allies that something is impossible".

[@herrzimm]

"The Wizard of Oz" was in color, and that was 1939... so yes, we HAD color film in WW2. It was just EXPENSIVE to process, especially for "daily reports" or when you have your film on the seas in Navy ships and exposed to "salt water air", which ruins the color film at the time. The reason MOST of the WW 2 footage is in black and white is due to ECONOMICS, not technology. Such as simply being able to purchase 3 weeks worth of black and white film vs 3 days of color film at the same price. PLUS, it was far easier for camera operators to find black and white film in foreign nations than it was for them to find color film.

[@williamst.germain3394]

I'd love to see your take on the Battle 360 series on the USS Enterprise.

[@jorgemercado4428]

Hey Kip, you may never see this but, the failed Austrian painter regime used it for a section of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, that basis was a new product they had that was functional by 1932 (Agfacolor) and improved from there for other movies in general and for during war and post war film that has this similar color effect from the chemical method used to produce it, post war these stocks of raw product was taken by the Reds, Polcolor, sovcolor. And this was German response to technicolor and Kodachrome on the market. The first full feature film in color for Hollywood by 1939 and so one by those producing it internationally was effectively a commercial arms race for better effect but the war shot that down for the time.

[@chriscalvin5083]

Kip 6:00 mark i think that most WWII footage that was colorized in the 1970s or 1980s by CBS or NBC an release for the 25 anniversary of the end of WWII they was some colorized film in WWII but those are very rare

[@hengineer]

On the ad, I've been looking to get a new safety razor. I've gotten into them lately and it's a really good shave. Plus nothing feels more manly than using a brush and foam and an old fashioned safety razor.

[@I_Stole_A_BTR-80]

For the rant starting at 5:23 Yes there absolutley was colour film during and pre ww2. The most famous consumer colour film is kodachrome, now basically a dead film because Kodak refuses to produce it any more (because better film technology like c41 came along) and also because kodak refused to release how they developed the film. This led to some random lab out in california in the late 2000s to being the last lab able to develop kodachrome, but they ran out of the chemicals pretty soon after as they were flooded with film development requests. Good thing about kodachrome though is that it is super stable, unlike most other colour films around today. Meaning any archive worth it's salt that has kodachrome film will have it in basically pristine condition, and without any discolouration. Other than that there was the colour film that was used to shoot the original Wizard of Oz. But that film stock, technicolor, at that point was so insensitive (something like an ISO of 5) that they were basically burning the cast alive with very, very bright lamps. And you can shoot outdoors with that, but on a perfectly sunny day, running 16fps with the shutter at 1/30 of a second, you have to run the aperture of that camera at about 3½ stops over f/16 (so either f/5.6 or f/4, which opens up the lens to far more light than you could get at f/16), but because of that (and the level of lens development at the time), you are going to have both really soft images (will look like your image is slightly out of focus despite being dead on) and unable to shoot in anything other than really sunny days (unless you just get the lab to develop the film longer, but that introduces discolouration to the film, which won't look nice). But the reason most footage in WW2 was black and white is simply cost. Basically every lab in the world only develops B+W film at this time because that's the industry standard (and also because the big economic sad had hit a decade and a half before, so colour film and the required developing chemicals were just not as plentiful). What news agency is gojng to splash out on say 100ft of 16mm Kodachrome (about 4 minutes), when they could buy say, 1000ft of 16mm BW in bulk for the same price? Sure, it might wow their audience, but the budgeting department won't see a need for such a cost. Anyway, rant about a rant over. Hope you all learned something neat about 20s, 30s and 40s film technology. Edit: two points I forgot: -C41 is only superior to Kodachrome by virtue of being cheaper to produce -There were "coloured movies" before the Wizard of Oz, but only because they went and painted onto the film after they had it developed. The Wizard of Oz was the first true colour film.

[@pyronuke4768]

I believe the reason for so many black and white photography/ filmography is because up until around the 60's colored film was expensive, especially for really high quality stuff. Lighting was notoriously tricky to get right, and outside of studio conditions it lacked the same clarity of B/W film. By the 60's they were able to lower the price of high quality colored film, and B/W was phased out after that.

[@Koppu1doragon]

To expand on Kip's point at the end, remember a guy running a mourge created a device the removed an entire profession out of spite. This device being the automatic telephone system.

[@Naruto_uzumaki120]

My understanding was colored footage was very very expensive back in the day and required a very special equipment a lot of the news agencies that filmed Martin Luther King during the civil Rights march did not have access to that kind of equipment because the small little news agencies that were supplying the footage for the bigger agencies couldn't afford the the better cameras also TVs were mostly black and white the only time you ever really got to see a color film was in a theater

[@Ahalaya]

If my memory of film/photography history from getting my photography degree serves, most of the film at the time might have been colorized, but it would have still been relatively expensive to do actual color film processing. There is so much that goes into processing color film, it's crazy. But colonizing - literally painting the film - was well-developed at that point.

[@americansmark]

A lot of the WW2 footage was colorized in the 90s as part of a preservation project. It generally wasn't in color during those days (though the tech did exist), but the shades of grey were matched to particular colors and it made it easier to add color when that technology came to exist.

[@crazyloon6697]

I have found that necessity is the mother of all invention and desperation is the father of all invention.

[@electricbayonet2]

The Western Allies did some truly horrible stuff to Germany during the war. But the nature of strategic bombing is one thing. It’s impersonal. The Soviets, though? The things the Red Army did, _personally,_ was...hoo-boy.

[@5-7Farms]

About a year to a year and a half ago, I had the opportunity to be in Gail Halverson's funeral procession here in Salt Lake city, where he was buried. I flew at least 6 10 foot american flags on my truck as well as many others.

[@Juan-Dering]

Yeah. The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind were in full color using 3 color subtractive process. Also known as the CYMK which was popular for a long time. If people don't realize or remember, both of those films were released in 1939. The main reason why you don't see a lot of them, was just because it had to be done intentionally. Process wasn't exactly cheap, and you had to film it on very specific film, in a very specific way, and have it developed by Technicolor. And that's just during that time. There was also Kinemacolor which was created during 1909 but it wasn't full color, it was a 2 tone color film.

[@Talban]

I met Gail Halverson (the candy bomber). Dude was amazing.

[@mintconditioncoinrings]

It’s called technacolor basically they added the color to the film later

[@KipReacts]

I didn't know that. Thank you!

[@DemonSliime]

5:33 there color footage of mlk jr too. It’s just that most personal cameras and recordings from tvs in the 50’s and 60’s were in black and white. Color cameras and TVs were a lot more expensive, as was TV recording equipment in general. The originals are in color, a copy is made, and it’s adjusted for screening in black and white for release on TV. It also cost more money to license the color video from that error because it’s a lot less common Edit: there was color footage in World War II, but a lot of wwii footage has been colorized and touched up in general with modern technology. I don’t know about this specific clip in this video.

[@KongTheViking]

The fact that some of those same planes probably were also used to drop paratroopers in on D-Day just a few years earlier is nuts to think about

[@robertlombardo8437]

​@KipReacts Did you know that each unique shade of greyscale in black and white film corresponds to its actual color in colorized film? It used to be a time-consuming process, but there are AI programs that can do the process automatically now. I do WW2 pics and stuff for fun.

[@William_Bryant]

Can we get the Thunderscreech Video?

[@RaderizDorret]

I switched over to using the old-school safety razor over 11 years ago. I get a MUCH better shave for cheaper, even without using shaving soap. And I know women who have started using them as well because they get similar results.

[@MrPingn]

It's so much better to buy 5 to 10 double edge blades for a single safety razor.

[@vagabondwastrel2361]

Kabuki Theater wasn't a precursor to Anime. Anime was literally created in revenge against America. I can't remember the documentary that spells it out but it started as revenge and turned into passion and massive commercial sales. For example most opening and endings are usually paid with clout. For example Maximum the Hormone. They were already established but they were rocketed up after their music was added to death note. So much so that they had a American tour.

[@Mare_Man]

Pretty sure anime started with heavy influence/imitation of old Disney animations like Bambi

[@CerberusGRivers]

Spite and contempt lead to some pretty interesting inventions

[@theamericanadventure]

They absolutely had colored footage. Tho it wasn't as common. Look at the wizard of oz. And it was filmed in the 30s.

[@B00ZER_S0UL]

I have a video request. Theres a soldier named nick "machine" Lavery. He's has 1 leg and is a green beret in special services. Black rifle coffie company made a video on him.

[@greenlionguardian]

During world war 2 the transition form Black and white to Colored was made reference the original screening of "The Wizard of Oz"

[@mattb2583]

Ice Cube is my favorite philosopher

[@CobraChicken101]

I did part of my masters in Economics at the Karl Marx university in Leipzig ( 2000-2001) So while getting educated i also got first hand accounts of what it was like to live in a communist state. And it sucked, big time. Human nature and psychology make that it can never work and will always lead to dictatorship, a mismatch in production vs needs and wants of the population, a thriving black market and corruption. Pure Kapitalism works better in some (theoretical) ways but is also not desirable as practically the less fortunate will also be exploited. That's why a free market with fair competion within a welfare state is the best we can offer to this day. Not perfect, but it works out for the vast majority of the people. Btw, you're 100% correct about Marx and his buddy (Friedrich Engels) living it up, they did so right here in Brussels, while writing his manifesto. The Hypocrisy

[@SpartanB209]

The primary reasons we kept black and white film for so long is because it was both much cheaper to use, and also resulted in a clearer image. Color film is a lot easier to have muddled details, where black and white film is much clearer to this day.

[@Lykos513]

If you’re interested in the whole Carl Marx thing, there is a rather interesting video by epic rap battles of history where they pit him against Henry ford. If you have not reviewed it yet of course. Though I have not seen you post something about it yet. Up to you of course.

[@jonathanmccann1774]

as far as i can remember it is not that it was coloured in ww2 its that they went over it at a later date and updated it with computers and such, now im not sure if that is the truth but it makes more sense as motion camera technology was still in its infancy at that point

[@lurkingedge]

Children always suffer the most.

[@ealtar]

i love how they jumped from 3 to 25 tonnes ... btw aparently the new c-17 globmaster III it up to 77 tonnes ... also at the time cargo was put manualy in the plane, aircraft today use pallets soo much faster .... LOGISTICS wins, always !!!

[@gunnss11]

The History Channel did a Whole documentary series Called "WWII in Color."

[@Johnlanzer]

10:56 Yes. He would see it the same way. A little different, but the methods are the same - calling for takeover of the institutions and violent revolutions. He also believed that the family should be abolished as well, which you'd see is widespread amongst proponents of socialism.

[@electricbayonet2]

7:09 Eh. I think it’s less about hyperinflation and more about currency security and global influence. The Soviets could flood the market with counterfeits because it was easy and they had an absurd level of control over the region. For another video (or just personal viewing) the resources that go into making a single dollar note is very interesting. I’ve got more general things to criticize about the Treasury Department and fiat currency in general, mind you, but- -oh! He petrified-dollar! Look into that! It’s really interesting as a way to basically turn a fiat currency into something more material.

[@TheHeartlessAlchemist]

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the GOAT.

[@-Luna-tic.exe-]

The first colored photo was made by a Russian using 3 pictures using red blue and green filters around 1819ish

[@93gamrx]

Most of the footage from world War II is indeed black and white. Color was added after through a special technique to add color layers onto the film. Which is why none of the colors seem quite as vibrant or as bright as modern color video.

[@benmelich8220]

You shave?! I didn’t think cartoons grew facial hair.

[@KipReacts]

The more you know.

[@RigorMortis187]

Pretty sure color film was invented in 1899-1902 depending if you want the invention or successful test dates. You are 100 % correct. Was it widely used, not until the 60's but there Is definitely color footage of ww2(not colorized later).

[@destinee6590]

The first color film to ever be successfully marketed to the masses was Kodachrome, from Kodak, in 1935, just four years before WWII started. There was definitely a lot more color footage and photography of the era that was lost to time than we think, and he's right that some of it was intentionally made black and white. ( can't say if the reason is right or not but like, wouldn't surprise me. ) It's a shame how much film and photography is just lost in general, tbh.

[@obiohaz6023]

3 tons in 7mins? jfc it takes longer to get cargo off a plane now

[@m2hmghb]

So color film was around for a while. Most if not all of what was shot with color film back then was for showing in movie theaters. The reason some footage was in black and white in the 60s was because color televisions were still not common and the cost component. It made sense if you're doing a film or a tv show to accept the cost of color - but it wasn't as acceptable when you covered the protests and such. When you have hundreds to thousands of reporters it doesn't make sense to send the most expensive camera gear - you'd send the most expensive gear to where you knew there was a story.

[@kilks95]

Kip thats probably a scene form the netflix documentary ww2 in color we did not have color images in tbat time period

[@wolflordkanan9720]

I always hjjoked that the three aur channels were the first "D**k in the sky" 😂

[@Maria_Erias]

On the subject of communism: What's interesting is that what arose as the current understanding of "communism" as it pertains to the Soviet Union is not what was intended by the initial communist revolutionaries. Lenin and the other communist leaders had used Joseph Stalin as a strongman (as Stalin had made his living as a thief and a thug before being recruited to "the cause"), but after they took over Russia, they wanted to keep him as far away from power as they could, so they made him the head secretary - literally, the General Secretary. They thought he'd get caught up in paperwork and wouldn't be able to scheme and plot while Lenin, Trotsky, and the others built Russia into a communist utopia. But the thing is, as General Secretary, Stalin was able to shuffle people he liked, that were loyal to him, or that he could intimidate into key positions of minor authority. To the point that, when Lenin eventually had a stroke and Trotsky was prepared to take over, Stalin essentially staged a coup and took over Russia instead. Trotsky wound up fleeing Russia and wound up in Mexico, where Stalin eventually had him assassinated. It's an interesting intellectual exercise, wondering what might have been under a Trotsky-led Soviet Union, and whether it would have wound up closer to a more traditional Western-style democracy (as Trotsky's writings held a democratic, pro-populace lean) instead of the horrifyingly genocidal autocracy of Stalinist Russia that became the boilerplate template for every communist regime to follow. After all, the idea of the 'soviet' was that the people could get together to vote on what was best, and in those early, pre-Stalin days, you had a balance between the intellectuals and the workers.

[@karifaevt]

Colour film was created in 1899 the year ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE. The "modern" colour film method came into existence in the 1930s. We had practical colour film BEFORE ww2

[@generichardson4771]

kip there is a documentory in the title of the name it says world war 2 in colarand it covers europe and the pacific

[@sanguinembwun6475]

Color technology was expensive and more difficult to operate so black and white was more popular. It’s basically the same reason everyone had a flip phone and only a few people had smartphones in the start of the age of cellphones simply because they were too expensive! Once smartphones became cheaper everyone started buying and using them! The same thing can be seen in the history of pretty much every product!

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

Mr. Kip you should react to “The Great Boatlift of 9/11”

[@khmnc]

color film existed, but it was super expensive

[@dramspringfeald]

"sell me" rant "Bluetooth enabled toaster with subscription fee

[@thesaltyengineer6086]

Original footage was in black and white! Only recently have the colorized it using AI and some cutting edge recoloring programs the can by the tone of white or black can make out the real tone of the underlying colors being it back to life

[@einsUNDcolt]

The super power of the US is its logistics

[@GuardianWolf85]

Best way to innovate? Tell them they can’t do it. Especially the US. It literally turns into a “Hold My Beer…” situation.

[@mrchapin94]

Man if you had me as a friend. I would have more space facts to tell you

[@scavenger6268]

Talking about support infrastructure, tools, etc...is half of "the means of production" and is the general reference point that any criticism goes to as a fallback plan or as a political marketing tool. The second half is the person using the infrastructure and is a largely avoided/ignored part of the conversation since it involves the looting of people. Effectively enslaving them to whatever purpose they desire. An example of this would be "Serfdom" being a prior "means of production" since it was the peasant scraping rocks from the dirt for weeds to grow in order to live that the whole economy was based around.

[@twzrd6493]

Based Kip and Friends

[@PolymurExcel]

The Wizard of Oz came out in the 1930s, you tell me people don’t think we had color footage when they were showing off colored movies already at that point?

[@lorohavok]

remember the internet was created as a result of a military program during the cold war