Time travel back 100 years to the boulevards and markets of Paris in the early 1920s. Silent footage brought to life as a 4k 60 fps colorized film with added sound for an immersive experience.
Filmed along the Paris boulevards, bouquinistes (book stalls) and flea markets. Today these stalls still ply their trade along the banks of the Seine. We also see various Parisian artists at work along the embankment.
From 1918 to 1929, a period called Les années folles or the “crazy years” Paris established itself as the world capital of art, fashion, literature and cinema. The low cost of living there attracted writers like James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway, as well as artists Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí. 1920s fashion for women experienced a revolution, led by Paris designers like Jeanne Lanvin, Callot Soeurs, Jean Patou, and Madeleine Vionnet.
The Film Restoration Process:
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
Paris Boulevards 1920 filmed by Burton Holmes/ GD collection
Springtime in Paris – outtakes 1922
(Fox News Story A0609.) Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
