Time travel back to the 1920s for a 3,600 mile train journey across Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Silent footage brought to life by manual and deep algorithm colorization, upscaling and an added soundtrack.
An early tourist film commissioned by the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau. The journey took five days and crossed 3600 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Travelling through Quebec, the oldest city in North America. Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary and Lake Louise. The up over the Rocky mountains until the train reached Vancouver, where English Bay is located.
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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Original footage National Library of Canada
Across Canada by the CPR
https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng
