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28 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#OnThisDay in 1945, Betty Oliver was working in the Empire State Building as an elevator operator when a B-25 bomber crashed into it. 14 people died. Betty survived a 75-story elevator fall.

(She broke her neck, back, pelvis, and suffered severe burns).
That remains the world record for the longest survived elevator fall.
The original newspaper interview with Betty: newspapers.com/clip/11687034/…

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People ask me if there are certain things that should stay in black and white, and my answer is: moving footage should stay in black and white if it is not a human colorizing them.

I love the speed correction, though.
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It makes sense to integrate AI into the process to speed things up a bit, but that's not enough.

*my opinion*
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Colorized by me: The basement of the Ipatiev house where the Romanov family was killed #OnThisDay in 1918.

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