Time travel back to China of 1929 for a rare 1920s Shanghai fashion and hairstyle feature. Restored by Deep learning AI enhancement. Footage from the Moving Image Research Collections with kind permission of the University of South Carolina. Colorized using deep exemplar-based video colorization. Presented ( purportedly) by a niece of Alfred Sao-Ku Sze, China’s …
Time travel back to roaring 20s Biarritz France on a September day in 1928 thanks to the magic of AI neural networks.Original footage from the Moving Image Research Collections. With kind permission of the University of South Carolina. Watch A Day at the Beach – Biarritz 1928 – updated The film starts with clips from …
Time travel back 120 years for a Sunday stroll in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris circa 1900 to 1905.It was a popular meeting place and promenade route for fashionable Parisians of all classes. Now through AI deep learning techniques, we can get a better glimpse of a forgotten era. A Walk in the Park …
Century old film unearthed in AI enhanced glory Time travel back a century to a beach in Holland filmed circa 1921. What we love about this 100 year old film is that we see normal working class people having fun.The early 1920’s social attitudes were still quite conservative when it came to swimming in public.As …
Parisian Woman captured in a fragment of color film in 1925. A young 1920’s Paris flapper captured in a fragment of color film in 1925.Part of a series of clips from a 1920’s fashion photo-shoot in 1920’s Paris, A French woman models jewelry, necklaces and makeup compacts. Her bobbed hair and dress is typical of …
Women’s football match filmed in England in 1918. Brought to life with AI deep learning techniques. In Color and with Sound. During WW1, the phenomenon of ladies football took off in leaps and bounds. Male players being notably absent.Munition workers, dubbed ‘munitionettes‘ formed dozens of teams and began competing to large crowds of spectators. It …
In Flaming Youth 1923, Colleen Moore propelled the 1920’s flapper makeup look to fame. We AI enhanced this charming clip from the surviving 11 minutes of footage. Colleen Moore’s Crazy Flapper Makeup Routine 1923 Colleen Moore and her iconic bob hairstyle, hair bangs and cupids bow lipstick. The way she lashes on gallons of powder, …
Spitfire Girls is a short tribute to the girls who built and repaired the iconic RAF fighter plane during WW2. They are the forgotten British Rosie the Riveters. The unheralded British women of WW2 who built and repaired the RAF’s iconic Spitfire.AI enhanced film made in 1940/41. Original footage courtesy IWM. Spitfire Girls Film – …
An edit of a 1907 Alice Guy Blaché film “The Irresistible Piano“. AI enhanced to produce possibly the oldest ever music video Alice Guy-Blaché was a pioneer film director and one of the few women working in the movies, Her story begins in 1885, after she attended an early Lumiere film presentation. Alice was a …
AI enhanced edits of some of the earliest footage of Japanese Geisha and Maiko entertainers. From the Meiji era, circa 1900 Japanese Geisha and Maiko Video in 1900 Many Japanese women wore the traditional Kimono, Obi or Furisode. This film clearly shows entertainers dancing to the accompaniment of two Shamisen players.The dangling Kanzashi on the …