Visit a 1930’s Beauty Salon | AI Enhanced Film 1938 [4k, 60 fps]

November 24, 2020 258714 Views

AI enhanced trip back in time to a beauty salon in Michigan in the late 1930’s.possibly 1940.

Caroll’s salon was based in Hamtramck, Michigan.
Featuring the infamous and diabolical Frederick’s permanent wave machine! What a woman had to go through to be glamorous those days!

In May we tried adding color to this film. Now with AI upscaling and a new soundtrack, you can get an even better ASMR experience.

AI Neural networks Restoration Process.
1. Frame interpolation from 24 to 60 fps using Dain app.
2. Removed noise artifacts.
3. Upscaling from 360p to 4k.
4. Colorizing using Deoldify.
5. New soundtrack

DeOldify and Dainapp are both open source deep learning programs which can be found on Google Colab. You can also get downloadable apps to run on your PC, but you’ll need a good graphics driver.

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Our original 2010 version can be found here: https://youtu.be/KsirSYaR3Oc

Originally footage from the Prelinger Archive.
https://archive.org/details/CarollsB1941

This short AI enhanced film is published here for preservation purposes and to add an immersive experience to the work of early filmmakers.
It is free to view and not commercially available on DVD or for republishing elsewhere.
Published here under the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video as outlined by the Center for Media & Social Impact.

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