😮🤯 Using AI to restore old black and white footage of the US

[Hamartia Antidote]

colors are shifting but wow.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Unreal!! Wow!!! The AI turned crap 1905 footage into something viewable.

Where the above film starts

Google Maps

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Grant's tomb:

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Pier57/Empire State building

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[Ali_Baba]

Unreal!! Wow!!!

Where the above film starts

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

www.google.com

Grant's tomb:

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

www.google.com

Pier57/Empire State building

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

www.google.com

I really love watching these videos - esp 190X's once - you realised that people were quite sophisticated and the technology more advanced than you imagined.

 

[Zhukov]

Look at the classy dress everyone is wearing on streets. What happened to people in these 100 years?.

 

[jhungary]

Look at the classy dress everyone is wearing on streets. What happened to people in these 100 years?.

They become Amish.....

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Look at the classy dress everyone is wearing on streets. What happened to people in these 100 years?.

The 1960's hippies and their "Casual Revolution".

Dateline 1967: The 50th Anniversary Of Slob Nation - Ivy Style

This summer G. Bruce Boyer published a lengthy think piece in the magazine First Things called “Dress Up: What We Lost In The Casual Revolution.” I’ve only neglected sharing it here in a post as Bruce and I have brainstormed about recording a discussion about its main themes. Astute readers will...

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Dateline 1967: The 50th Anniversary Of Slob Nation​

I really love watching these videos - esp 190X's once - you realised that people were quite sophisticated and the technology more advanced than you imagined.

So many times I have had to post that the "Modern World" didn't start in the 1990's. Many things we have today in 2023 were also available at least 100 years ago in 1923 too...if not way before in the 1800's.

I consider ~1880 with the start of building electrical powerplants around the world as the beginning of the "Modern World". Electrification just led to an explosion of modern conveniences very quickly...like switching elevators from unreliable steam to something more dependable thus making taller multi-story buildings realistic.

 

[jhungary]

The 1960's hippies and their "Casual Revolution".

Dateline 1967: The 50th Anniversary Of Slob Nation - Ivy Style

This summer G. Bruce Boyer published a lengthy think piece in the magazine First Things called “Dress Up: What We Lost In The Casual Revolution.” I’ve only neglected sharing it here in a post as Bruce and I have brainstormed about recording a discussion about its main themes. Astute readers will...

www.ivy-style.com

Dateline 1967: The 50th Anniversary Of Slob Nation​

So many times I have had to post that the "Modern World" didn't start in the 1990's. Many things we have today in 2023 were also available at least 100 years ago in 1923 too...if not way before in the 1800's.

I consider ~1880 with the start of building electrical powerplants around the world as the beginning of the "Modern World". Electrification just led to an explosion of modern conveniences very quickly...like switching elevators from unreliable steam to something more dependable thus making taller multi-story buildings realistic.

As they said, we are just living in a better version of 1920. Whatever we have now, we had it back then, sure, the car can go faster, the computer are smaller and faster, video are clearer and higher definition, but whatever we have now we already had them back in 1920s. Maybe not internet.

 

[aziqbal]

thats amazing

almost did a bit of time travel there