It’s not just the color, it’s the way the video has been smoothed out and speed corrected. People are moving like they actually moved, instead of the sped up versions we are used to seeing in old footage. It seems to shrink the span between their day and ours. It’s almost as if this was shot yesterday and put through a “classic film” filter. They seem so much more “real”. Very well done! Thank you.
@@castirondude I think it had to do with the fact that the cameras were operated by a hand crank which coiled up the spring inside and, as the spring unwound, the camera would slow down a little. Then, when played back at “normal” speed, everything looked sped up. Not positive on that, but it’s my best guess. Growing up, my brother had a “super 8’ camera that operated on the same principle, and when we played them on a projector we got similar results.
@@JesusChrist-xb7jq The audio track was recorded separately (using a microphone and tape recorder) and then synched with the video in post-production.
I can't get enough of these. All these happy people dead & gone. Seeing what we see. Doing what we do. It brings it all to life. So real. Lovely work. Thanks for your time & patience
Love and joy, everything we are and experience and create, is never truly gone from this world. It lives on in the most unexpected of places. Things like these videos help us remember.
For me, it is not so much strange that they are gone but that that whole society is gone: all of them. There's zero common population between our world and their world.
just like we think today there'll be no end, everything ends, life constantly gets recicled, they had their good times and some bad times like everyone else, that's how life works
My dad, who was born in 1922, would had been a todler or maybe entering grade when those scenes were filmed. He died 4.5 years ago at age 96. That is really good enhanced video.
These are really well done. I'm especially impressed by the audio that's been added - it fits each scene without being over the top. Really gives a sense of being there.
@@JayKarpwick keep telling yourself that 😄, nowadays they can fake everything because of technology, the proof is we didn't see these videos before social media .. it's a coincidence? For you yes but not for me .
@@briesn7004 Instead of bleating "FAKE" why not look at the notes that tell where the original films are stored?? Or are you going so say that all of those schools and film archivists are fakers too? And these old films WERE seen before social media but they weren't common. They were difficult to distribute b/c they couldn't be digitized. Plus they were all grainy b&w and not very "interesting" to most people. Hell we watched a copy of the 1896 gardener prank back in a high school history class, but it was on a reel of film because there was no other way to distribute it. What changed is that AI restoration matured only a decade or so after social media started to spread. People didn't have to be tech geniuses or have a PhD in electronics to upgrade and colorize old films. Instead of sending individual copies to schools and exhibits one person could show their work to millions of people. Read some history, it's fascinating stuff and won't hurt your head.
Was this really filmed in the 1920s n recently colourized w sound added, or was it videographed in the 2020s? There doesn't seem to be any certainty either way.
I love watching these, the people so full of life that aren't here, so happy and carefree, I remember a time that I thought I would never get old, it just seemed so far out there that it wouldn't happen, I guess by the time I had to start working and raise a family, reality started setting in, been married twice now, raised two families and we are a foster home, life is good, you only get one life, live it.
Everyone is saying how the colour and the sound help them relate to that era, which is so true! I have a picture of my Grandmother from 1928, she was 36, less than a year after giving birth to twins. The picture looks ancient, she's wearing what appears to be a frumpy black lace dress, looks like history, not my Grandmother. But, flip it over and it's instantly relatable, she wrote, "Take one look at this picture then burn it!"
They were well groomed bc they had likely been wealthy and had been wearing expensive clothing. They were relaxed and happy bc they had no hardships. Akin to wealthy people today in this respect, is all I meant. ☮️
Another amazing job! What was time like in America before my grand parents came to the US over 30 years prior..... People were really amazing and weird looking back then.
Kinda haunting to know I’m looking at dead people. None of them are alive anymore. However, I’m impressed with the natural look and general good behavior of these folks. We could use a little more of that nowadays.
/facepalm. You can't tell *diddly* from a couple of century-old films. Talk to someone who's actually taken a few science classes and find out how many measurements have to be taken, and when and where.
Well it's a film, not a video, the image has been cleaned up and colorized using AI, and the sound was added b/c sync'ed sound wasn't possible at the time. But whatever, it's still SUPER impressive! P.S. "you're"
Where is the original footage? I would like to see another video with a side-by-side comparison, this one versus the original framerate non-remastered un-colorized version. As some have already commented, remastering it brings the 1920's closer to us in our 2020's & makes it look as though this was shot only yesterday. 02/22/24
My grandparents were born in the early 1900s, they would have been in their 20s then. It's hard to believe that footage is 100 years ago and all of those people are long gone..
I'd always hear older people complain when a classic black & white movie was colorized. I have many of the 3 Stooges in color and I personally love it. TMC released a colorized version of "The Thing from Another World (1951)" and I am still looking for a high quality version. Color brings so much to life with footage like this and shows how much life really hasn't changed even from a century ago.
I wish people understand that videos such as these are only showing the good parts of the towns. So it's important not to idolize these as the good ole days where everything was perfect.
You do realize that people would have said the same thing about the women that preceded these women, a generation before. When you gain the perspective of time you’ll understand this, and the fallacies within the “those were the days” notion
Look how different it was back then,... no mobile phones... the day just being about eachother, living in that moment... and just taking it all in.... maybe humanity has already had its peak?... because compared to today, this looks like paradise.... everyone of them is happy!
No computers. No CCTV. No social media. Heaven. Just a great nation proud of their victory in WWI (and proud of those who fought and died). I was definitely born 100 years too late. Shame.
This would give the wokies a heart attack because its like showing garlic to dracula, with its lack of diversity while showing what the beauty of this country used to look like.
Well Mr soy boy I assume you must be one of those lefty liberals that believe in the nonsensiscal mantra that diversity is our strenght. 3 people liked it for now, so perhaps you could higlight exactly what is stupid about my comment.@@EdwinMartin
Upper classes here, although the lower classes were probably too busy working in factories or being servants. In some ways though I think some people take diversity too far. Is it really necessary for people from all walks of lufe to mix all the time?
footage like this does 2 things to me: 1. it feels much more "recent and alive" then the og version, since its in color and frame stabilised. old footage, most of the time, looks speed up, it feels uncanny. seeing it like this, the 20s, look like the 60s. the 2nd thing is: i wish i coul time travel and do a vecation there. not to change anything or gain anything, just spend 2 weeks in times like these and awe and wonder
We were a civilized country once... we have fallen so far... lost so much, culture, tradition, humility, manners, self respect. Self discipline, style, beauty, family, community.... and a hundred other things that made us great....made us...us... sad, I would have liked to get to experience it, it would have been damn tough living for most... but maybe an actual life worth living.
Sentimos falta desse estado geral de antes, que, embora tenha as suas imperfeições como todas as épocas, não se compara à desordem de hoje. É fato que a civilização declinou tanto, com o passar dos anos, e os acontecimentos sociais, tudo piorou. O Ser Humano brincando de inventar, acabou inventando demais e foi isso que aconteceu. Se ao menos tivéssemos continuado com o espírito inteligente que a maioria das pessoas tinha nesses tempos. A prova disso é como aquele tempo, início do século XX ate a metade, produziu tantas mentes brilhantes, tantas personalidades incomparáveis. O que vemos hoje é a causa sucessiva do colapso da cultura e da moral. Eu moro no Brasil, e parece ser ainda pior aqui o colapso da Cultura e a desmoralização, a pobreza mental, e um ambiente urbano sem ordem. Pelo menos procuro aproveitar ao máximo o lugar e o momento presente em que nasci, com bastante fascinação a respeito do passado.. temos algumas coisas boas hoje nascidas da tecnologia, porém.. Ainda se sente uma grande perda no ar. Não sei se há otimismo para que o futuro do mundo melhore... Quem sabe?
I love when sanctimonious morons rant about times gone by on social media, most likely on a smart phone while taking a dump. You're not fooling anyone. A hundred years ago, you'd be working 18-hour shifts in a coal mine, Biff.
It's looking at history through a different lens, so to speak. Before this remarkable restoration process, our world today and the past seemed more distant, a world in black and white with people scurrying around at warp speed as depicted in the film. This brings it much closer. My grandmother told me stories about her going to Atlantic City in the 1920s. Now I know a sliver of what she might have seen then. Human nature doesn't change, folks. Only the technology. If I envy anything about the world these people lived it, it's that they weren't under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. Of course, it wouldn't be long before that threat drifted over civilization like the proverbial dark cloud.
