At the Beach Film: Restored to Amazing Life

Time travel back over 120 years. San Francisco crowds descend on to Ocean beach, below the iconic Cliff House hotel. Restored to life and colorized with added sound using manual and algorithmic techniques. Filmed circa 1899 - 1903. The famed Cliff house is seen in the background. It burned down in 1907. The completion of Point Lobos toll road (now Geary Boulevard) in 1864 greatly improved access to the beach for weekend crowds. You can see a long line of people walking down to the shore. The Cliff house was built in 1863 and became one of the sight to visit when in San Francisco. The building survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake only to be burned in a dramatic fire in 1907. A smaller Cliff house was built afterwards only to be closed in 1924 during Prohibition. Turn of the century America from 1899 to 1909 was otherwise known as the Progressive era in the USA and the Edwardian era in the UK. Women’s fashions still reflected Victorian style. Hair still tied in pompadour rolls under colorful straw hats. Dresses were long and tightly fitted over corsets. The post WW1 1920s era would change all that. AI Enhanced 4K 60fps film by Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization - Bo Chang & associates Read the teams paper on deep exemplar based video colorization here: The AI Film Restoration Process: I take early fragments of silent 16fps footage and restore them to life by a combination of manual frame by frame colorization as well as the use of deep exemplar-based video colorization techniques. The footage is upscaled and the frames interpolated to a higher frame rate ( in most cases 60 frames per second/ 60fps ) Finally I produce a soundtrack which helps build a new immersive experience for the viewer. Together, these processes revive old fragments of footage, offering audiences a more vivid and engaging glimpse of lives long since lived in the distant past. Original footage: Miles, Herbert J., Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Panorama of beach and Cliff House. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, Video.