Bring black-and-white videos back to life with DeOldify — right in Google Colab!
This notebook is an updated and streamlined version of the original DeOldify video colorization Colab notebook (archived).
✅ Successfully tested in November 2025.
Simply click the badge below to open the notebook in Google Colab (you’ll need a Google account).
It will automatically generate a colorized version of the sample video: 🎞️ Lee De Forest in his laboratory (1939)
Once you have successfully colorized this sample video, you can try with other vintage videos (for example, by providing a link to a short YouTube video).
If a Google Colab GPU is unavailable, you can import the .ipynb file into a Kaggle Notebook: