Time travel back to the beaches of England in 1929. Colorized to life and color in 4K 60fps with added sound using manual and machine learning techniques.
This film is a short unique glimpse into beach life in roaring twenties England
Vintage Swimsuits / Fashion of the 1920s
By the late 1920s, swimsuits and beachwear had evolved considerably from the conservative Edwardian era just 20 years before. Women now wore low cut bathing suits, tank tops, headscarves as well as shorts. By 1929 it was increasingly common to see young flappers wearing slacks on holiday. Also featured in this film is a woman wearing a sporty pair of sailor pants and a striped marinière or Breton sailor top. Coco Chanel frequently wore this look in Deauville France.
Britain never quite matched the glitzy fame of the French seaside resorts in the roaring 20s. Towns like Biarritz, St Tropez, Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo became synonymous with the glamour of beach holidays. But that didn’t stop the young flappers of 1920s England being stylish.
Film Restoration and Colorization Process:
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
Silent Footage sources:
Cooper social club. 2. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
The Cooper name was best known by the 1920s as a prominent veterinary medicine supplier.
If anyone can identify the individuals featured in these home movies, please let us know.
The second sequence of footage is from the film collection of Rudolph Karl Freudenberg and Gerda Freudenberg on their visits to England in the same summer of 1929.
Home movies Ashton. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fm762bff
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