Friday, May 8, 2020

VINTAGE VIDEO: NEW YORK CITY - 1911 - DIGITALLY ENCHANCED


With the enhancements made on this video it feels like you are looking a a video made 70 years ago instead of over 100 and that almost all, if not all, people in this video are now gone but some of the iconic building you may have seen on the television or in the movies remain. 

This video posted by Youtube user Dennis Shiryaev indicates it is a digital enhancement of this video of 1911 footage and indicates it was originally tken by by the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern on a trip to America:

He indicates he has made the following enchancements that really does seem to have brought the past to life.
"✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second (DAIN);
✔ Image resolution boosted up to 4k (ESRGAN, custom weight);✔ Resorted video sharpness (AE and other plugins);✔ Colorized – I'am still unsure about this, but regarding to high request from the subscribers decided to test DeOldify NN on this video. ⚠ Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data."

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