Time travel to the 1920s for some vintage snow days around the world. Colorized and upscaled to 4k at 60fps with added sound. Original silent footage from Europe and the USA.
Long before ‘extreme’ winter sports, folks simply enjoyed the snow like children. Sledding, Skiing, Tobogganing and a good old fashioned snowball fight !
Original footage Glamourdaze / Open Beelden/ MIRC / Detroit Historical Society.
How silent footage is colorized and brought to Life
I take early fragments of silent 16fps footage and restore them to life by a combination of manual frame by frame colorization as well as the use of deep exemplar-based video colorization techniques. The footage is upscaled and the frames interpolated to a higher frame rate ( in most cases 60 frames per second.) Finally I produce a soundtrack which helps build a new immersive experience for the viewer.
Together, these processes revive old fragments of footage, offering audiences a more
vivid and engaging glimpse of lives long since lived in the distant past.
The colorization process used Deep exemplar-based Video colorization.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909
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Watch A Day in the Snow c. 1928: Footage Restored to Life
With sincere thanks to the Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina for their kind permission.
Watch the original silent black and white 1920s footage:
New years Eve December 31, 1929.
Society snowball fight–outtakes. (Fox Movietone News Story 4-819.)
Fox Movietone News Collection
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/1616/rec/1
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Home Movies of Belle Isle, New Year’s Day Snow
Detroit Historical Society
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos_of_1927
