How are old black and white cinema videos converted to color video?

joe: How are old black and white cinema videos converted to color video?
How are old black and white cinema videos converted to color video?

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Answer by chevez_doc
Originally each frame was coloured through a fine painting process. example: gone with the wind, originally in colour.
Nowadyays it is done digitally by playing the movie on a computer and adding way more colors, shades and highlights than any artist could have done.*

*I’m sure there was one who came close, very close. he he he

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Answer by the Benny Bossy Klan
They Trade all the white for yellow (I think they call it Sepia).