Time travel back to a street in Washington DC. Early silent film made on August 10, 1903 of a US mailman picking up the post. Brought to life and color with added sound.
As the film begins, two types of mail boxes on a pole on the corner of a street can be seen. In the background, pedestrians walk. We can also see horse-carriages and early electric streetcar transportation. A man wearing the uniform of a mailman is seen approaching the mail boxes. He unlocks the boxes and removes the mail. And so the US postal system
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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Sources: original silent black and white footage held by Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Weed, A. E., Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Collecting mail, U.S.P.O. United States: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1903. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/0056
