Time travel to the 1920s for a fun snowball fight in Lake Placid New York in 1928. A group of young 'society' friends come together after Christmas 1928 to enjoy a fun filled day in the thick New York winter snows of beautiful Lake Placid. Interesting to see the winter fashion of 1929. All the girls are wearing trousers now.
AI restoration by Glamourdaze.com
With sincere thanks to the Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina for their kind permission.
Watch the original silent black and white 1920s footage:
Filmed on New years Eve December 31, 1929.
Society snowball fight--outtakes. (Fox Movietone News Story 4-819.)
Fox Movietone News Collection
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The AI enhancement process: Deep learning / Neural Networks
1. Denoised and removed artifacts from original film
2. Upscaled from 360p to 720p resolution
3. Applied colorization using Deoldify and Deep Exemplar based video colorization (see below paper)
4. Upscaled from 720p to 4k pixels
5. Increased frame interpolation from 15fps to 60fps
6. Mastered silent colorized version
7. Created ambient immersive soundtrack
8. Remastered to 4K with sound
Some of the deep AI codes like Dain, Rife and DeOldify are freely available on the Github community, if you are prepared to learn how to use Google Colab. You can also try Flow frames, which is better than Dain-app for desktop. But will need a computer with a good graphics card, and lots of patience.
You can read the paper on Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization here:
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Music: Snowfall Butterflies
Music: Christmas Homecoming - Aaron Kenny
