An historical film of one of New York’s great lost landmarks – Penn Station. HD colorized in 4K 60fps with added sound.
Its huge interior space was one of the wonders of America. A glass celling filling the station with natural light that illuminated all the way down to the train platforms below by the ingenious use of glass plugs.
The demolition of the original Penn Station in 1963 is still regarded by many as one of the worst planning decisions ever made in New York City.
Crafted by the esteemed architectural firm of Mckim, Mead, and White, this expansive edifice stood as a pinnacle of Beaux-Arts brilliance. Its grandeur, unveiled in 1910, endured for a mere half-century before yielding to the construction of Madison Square Garden.
This is documentary stock footage was filmed at the original Penn station New York city in 1945. They were to be outtakes for a movie titled Young Widow starring Jane Russel. It appears the shots were subsequently never used which is unfortunate, considering the later destruction of this landmark Beaux-Arts masterpiece . However we have brought this sequence to life using deep learning techniques and a little color masking.
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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Read The Last Kiss Goodbye at Penn Station
Photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt
