A Day at the Beach: Roaring 20s Footage HD Colorized to Life

June 8, 2025 84556 Views

Time travel to the roaring 20s seaside resorts around the world. Silent historical documentary footage of 1920s fashion and flappers brought to life. AI colorized with added sound and remastered at 4K 60fps.

Vintage fashions captured in historical documentary footage from roaring 20s flappers. Now AI colorized and restored to glorious life in colour and sound.

Glamourdaze uses machine learning to manually enhance these historical old silent documentary films. I add color and create sound ambience to bring a world lost in silence back to life again. Upscaled to 4K resolution at 60 frames per second. We can truly immerse ourselves in the sights and sound of a time long since past.
Feel like you’re really there, chilling on the beaches of fashionable seaside resorts of France, England, the USA and beyond.

00:00 Sebald Family day at the beach in Florida circa 1927

00:31 Biarritz France circa 1927. Scenic view of the shore. Relaxing in a cafe bar. People sunbathing along the Grand Plage. Colorful tents on the beach. Crowds walking on the promenade and swimming in the famous Biarritz surf.

01:14 Coast of Devon in England. A group of young friends relax on the beach.

01:45 A 1920s swimsuit fashion show filmed in Buffalo New York in 1929.A group of young women model colorful beach pajamas, cover-ups, headscarves and one-piece swimsuits with geometric patterns and contrasting colors. A girl in plaid holds a parasol, which was another popular 1920s beach accessory. The hairstyles, with their soft waves and bobs, reflect the changing beauty standards of the Roaring Twenties.

02:04 Group of Girls heading off for a short holiday in two automobiles to Atlantic City at the height of the roaring twenties. The cloche hats and light summer frocks were typical of the late 1920s.

Original Silent Footage:

Trip to Atlantic City 1928
GD Collection / licenced by Orbit Films

Biarritz scenes–outtakes. (Fox News Story B3450…B3455.)
Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/7797/rec/1

Early autumn brings crowds to Biarritz–outtakes.
(Fox News Story C7120…C7122.)
Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/7919/rec/4

Midpointe Digital Archive
Sebald-Kinder Collection
Original footage was filmed by the Raymond Edward Sebald familyhttps://midpointedigitalarchives.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/Sebald-Kinder/id/46/rec/2

Evening gowns will be backless this summer 1929
(Fox News Story D0346…D0349.)
Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/8219/rec/1

Cooper Social Club 2: Public domain mark
Welcome Collection

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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