A time travelling glimpse into the 1920s era lives of young men and women spending a weekend at an English country house in Aston Cambridge c.1929. Silent home movies colorized, upscaled to 4K with added sound
Bobbed hairstyles and gamine 1920s fashions are still evident in this charming look at a rather well to do group of young people enjoying a sunny weekend in a beautiful country house. I say, anyone for Tennis ?
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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Home movies taken by Rudolph Karl & Gerda (née Vorster) Freudenberg
Home movies Ashton, Cambridge, Ascot 1929 May onwards. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zgbh38gw
