Lavishly illustrated history of vintage fashion, makeup, and hairstyles for women in the 20th Century
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 …
Harris Tweed. 1941 film of Outer Hebrides women singing a ‘waulking song‘ while finishing tweed wool. A long forgotten art. Preserved by The British Council. AI enhancement by GlamourDaze. A rare snapshot of a long vanished era. Women sing and ‘waulk’ Harris tweed in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in 1940/1941. Filmed by Jack Cardiff …
Bobbed hair – 1926 film brought to life with AI deep learning techniques. To bob or not to bob ! The burning question for flappers in the mid 1920s. This wonderful time capsule comes from a newsreel in the Swedish commons library – Arkivkopia. Swedish hairdressers demonstrate how bobbed hair, hair shingling and finger waves …
Flappers in the USSR ? AI Enhanced film of a very different side to the Soviet Union in 1929. Filmed largely in Odessa in the Ukraine. Flappers in 1929 in Odessa Ukraine | AI Enhanced Film AI enhanced and upscaled edit from the classic 1929 documentary “Man with a Movie Camera.”Directed by Dziga Vertov and …
Time travel experience of a day in roaring twenties Berlin. From dawn until dusk in three minutes. Berlin of the Weimar Republic was a multi-cultural city. Teeming with flappers,bobbed hair,cloche hats, and the dancing girls of Berlin’s infamous Cabaret scene. Roaring Twenties Berlin – AI Enhanced 1927 Film This is a short AI enhanced edit …
Time travel back to Paris of the roaring 20’s. The flappers, bobbed hair, cloche hats, and dancing to jazz!And being Paris, of course chilling at the numerous Parisian cafe’s. Roaring 20’s Paris – AI Enhanced 1927 Film An AI restored edit of a Burton Holmes travelogue – Seeing Paris. It is preserved by the Prelinger …
Belle Époque Paris of 1900. Lumiere brothers film brought back to spellbinding life using AI deep learning. The Exposition Universelle 1900 was held from May to November in Paris and the optimism of a new century can be seen in all the faces of these people, now long departed. Belle Époque Parisiens of 1900 This …
Mesmerizing AI Enhanced street style in the 1930’s. Using AI upscaling, to 4k and 60 fps. A rare time capsule, now with added life and sound. AI upscaling – Street styles in 1938 Filmed in 1938/39 by Ivan Besse, who ran the local cinema in Britton, South Dakota. I love the way they break out …