1943 Crowds at Display of the Memphis Belle (color remaster)

Early color reels of a public exhibition in 1943 for the Memphis Belle, a famous US WW2 bomber plane. I ve focused on the bits showing the crowds attending. The unedited reel is extremely faded and hard to see, but I ve heavily boosted, balanced the color scheme and brightness for each sequence and WOW the old footage really starts to pop. For background music I ve chosen selections from Fred Allen s 1943 Easter radio special. From the US National Archives