What might video look like on an Apple II in Low Res Mode?

Best viewed at 720p. (no audio)

If the Apple II had video capability, what might that have looked like? The lo-res mode (with text) of the Apple II had a resolution of 40×40 with a 16 color palette. I created a custom palette in Photoshop using colors from this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_8-bit_computer_hardware_palettes#Apple_II_series

I converted a 720p video to 40×40, applied the custom palette and then converted it back to 720p with nearest neighbor resampling. The resulting video retains the 16:9 aspect ratio of the original video.

Original video is here:https://youtu.be/RabEMoT2V5c

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