It’s weird because this restoration somehow makes the time period feel closer. Sometimes when things are so old you expect people to behave differently but no, everyone behaves pretty much like we do. It’s such surreal feeling.
@@ChloeLux yeah but I still think that certain behaviors are timeless and we don’t realize it. Like I’m pretty sure people were making dick jokes way back when.
@@ChloeLux yes but we dont think that way. We always think of past times as very old times, atleast when we are young coz we havent first hand witnessed times going in very past ie quite lot years back - atleast according to 'human life span and new generations coming up', that isnt past for you at all, but is just normal time and the times arent that different (hence too) tbh.
Color brings out a 3 dimensional feeling that black and white lacks. It is also logical that our brains connect color with life and vitality. Of course, there is a place and appropriate time to cuddle up, late at night and watch old, unrestored, authentic black and white movies, which can add a little challenge, mystery, and desired emotion to the experience--as advocated by my old English teacher of 4 decades ago.
I can't help feel strange looking at these unsuspecting people going about their day, no idea that some 90 odd years later future generations would be watching them in awe and wonder.
@@LittleMissPyeWacket you can't possibly know what thoughts are in other peoples' minds, can you?? I've "predicted" a number of things several decades in advance, and my goodness, it wasn't difficult. :) Civilization fought for centuries for the right to remain private, and unforeseeable embarrassment and jeopardy could well be a justifiable reason why. That's why filming in public is one of the most inappropriate things another human being can subject others to. It's completely inconsiderate to whatever the "subject's" own personal circumstances might be... particularly rough sleepers and the disadvantaged.
@@notsheepish8304 you're not *_really_* suggesting that some random person ought to be able to put all those sorts of considerations together in their minds right at that very same instant that they see a camera being placed right in front of their faces unexpectedly, do you??? Let's be realistic with the context of what we're asking each other, when we're asking it. It doesn't come across as a very intelligent question to ask otherwise, and can be very taxing on the person having to explain themselves. Have a nice day.
Seems like AI could restore video in minutes or even seconds, making human restoration editors irrelevant, or at least merely the quality control guy who fixes a few mistakes that ai makes--just as the modern programming coder.
@@dennisgarber The problem with generative AI is that it "hallucinates" and puts in details that were never really there. Human editors will always be necessary when dealing with historical footage, as will coders.
@@selohcin This is indeed a catastrophic problem for historical footage. But I do not see it as catastrophic for entertainment movies or out of copyright clips used in commercials. The restored film here is first rate.
@@selohcin Yes, but no, they will only be needed for has long hallucinations happens, and it won't take long. Pls don't say "will always need human" for AI software. People should have already realized AI is gonna be better and more reliable than all of us at basically everything in the next few decades. The world will change a lot.
Yeah I mean a lot of them would have died in the 70s-00s depending on their age etc so they would have seen quite a few similar things to us which is strange to think about.
@@Daniel-rz4es How so? Back then people were much more pressured to look their best, and valued modesty. They went places and tried their best to look nice no matter where they were. They wanted to be seen. It's part of being social. Nowadays people just want to be seen on social media.
The crazy thing about this is old footage seems so rare and scarce to us but with things like UA-cam when today is 100 years ago, they'll have tons of footage of us to say "Did they really dress like that" haha 😊🙏🏼 They also might not be as intrigued about old footage as we are either because it won't be as scarce to them as something from 100+ years or so ago is to us at the moment, if you get what I mean lol I do love seeing old footage though ❤️🙏🏼😊
I think it might be scarce. I watched a news segment where there's a growing movement amongst middle shoolers rejecting new tech. Instead of iphones they're asking for typewriters. It's kind of insane to think about it being inundated with phones now but if more people keep rejecting it, our footage might be considered rare at some point as well.
@@monejohn9973If they had long hair, they never wore it down in this time period.. It was seen as sexual.. It was popular to get short hair cuts in the 20's
@@NandoDiscothe more likely reason would be things like link rot and loss of data as the internet progresses. Most of the internet from the 80s and 90s is already gone. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were internet archaeologists in the future.
The restoration is incredible. It makes me realise how much of our perception of the past since picture/video was invented is heavily dependent on video quality - it influences how the times felt to those of us who never lived in them. Videos like this are sobering in the sense that the world actually looked the exact same aside from fashion and technology. That might be obvious, its not like reality itself had a lower frame rate back then, but to actually see something this old as if it is a modern video is a really strange experience.
I was thinking the exact same thoughts. It made me realize the 20s were just another era and all of a sudden it doesn’t seem that long ago when it’s in color.
When you really think about it, 100 years or 200 or even 300 really isn't that long ago, all you have to do is think of someone 100 years old today...then think of someone 100 years old before, etc. And then you're suddenly back several hundreds of years.
Beautiful and haunting. Knowing they are not actors in a recent movie but real people, in that fleeting moment 100 years ago, is like falling through time. The colours bring the sense of being present, without the symbolic nostalgia of B & W. When they look directly at you through the camera, there's quite a strange feeling of connection. Great work.
You're hearing the voices of actors from I'm guessing 2020-2022 dubbing scripted dialogue not the actual voices of these people because there was no sound film recording in the 2020s!
@@MrHifihifiyes, but it helps to sell the illusion. When Peter Jackson made his film "They Shall Not Grow Old", I believe they went to a lot of effort to lip-read the mouths of the soldiers where possible and record dialogue that represented what they were actually saying. I suspect the approach taken here is a bit more vague. 😊
It’s so comforting seeing people laugh the same way, play the same, even have the same sort of speech patterns when they’re just joking around with their friends. People have always been people.
Watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.
That shot of the cars on the street in France looks absolutely stunning, like it was filmed today. Brilliant piece of restoration work on that footage.
True, but nice to see either way when people took a lot of pride in their appearance...especially compared to what we see today not even on the beaches but everywhere in public. Certainly not a good sign for America's future.
there used to be laws about womens swimsuits. i forget which year were they allowed shorts not more than 6" above the knee in some places men werent allowed shirtless until almost the 40s
If from this video we are able to reflect on the limited time we have here, how can we be so quick to conclude (from our own limited perspective) that it simply doesn’t matter? Just because it’s short? I think that’s a poor argument.
My third great grandparents got married in Odessa Ukraine and are also buried there. Although the video was taken a couple years after their death, it still makes me cry. In loving memory of my third great grandparents, Regina Bertsch (1851-1918) Wendelin Streifel (1853-1917) and their children.
I'm fascinated with the early 1900s. So much has changed drastically since then from fashion, to technology, to even values and lifestyles. The family structure has even changed. But the simplicity of enjoying the sand and ocean and sun ties us together. Thank you for sharing this footage.
@@poa2.0surface77 Fake news. There were hand-held video cameras in the '20s. From Wikipedia - "In the 1920s, more cameras such as the Zeiss-Ikon Kinamo, Newman-Sinclair, Eyemo, and De Vry were beginning to be created with *hand-held* ergonomics in mind. These smaller cameras satisfied the demand from both the growing newsreel and documentary fields, as well as the emerging amateur market."
@@guyledouche6839 diversity is objectively a good thing. This comment section is full of right-wingers being idiotic as usual. “Woke”, my ass, it’s called not being degenerate racists.
Also important is the more than doubling of the framerate to 60fps, which makes it look less like a movie. The "soap opera effect" that 60fps produces is generally considered too distracting for movies, but suits sports and home movie material like this, since looking as real as possible is the goal. Switching the quality of this video to 480p also drops it to 30fps and helps to demonstrate this. It suddenly looks more like a movie at 30fps and some of the uncanny feeling watching it disappears.
@@gregdolecki8530 Who is the oldest person alive today? The oldest living person as of May 2023 is María Branyas Morera. She is 116 years old. Born on 4th March 1907, the American-Spanish supercentenarian is the world's oldest person. (Source: google)
I love those jazzed-up time machine video clips, but it always gives me a stab in the heart to know that these busy, going about their daily lives, sometimes happy people are long gone - ghosts of the past.
We live and we die that’s our curse. They had they’re time to live just like today we have our time to live, then one day just like we are doing, a future generation will look at footage of us after we are long past. It’s just the nature of things
the littlest kids might still be alive. I worked at a retirement community and there was a resident who was born in the 20s still kickin it. She was nearly a hundred and had recently quit driving her convertible and went from a cane to a walker. But she always came down to dinner dressed and done up all prim and proper. :) I really loved her because she was born around the same time as my own grandmother, so I could see how she might have been were she still here. :)
Maybe not, maybe in top secret projects we've already figured out how to time travel it's just us the public unaware of this. After all, the late boss at Lockheed Martin Ben Rich, once said that 'everything you see on Star Trek we've already done'...
Watching videos in black and white makes me feel like I'm looking into the past, but in color it makes me feel it's current with people dressed up😊 Excellent!
I loved this. The restoration makes it feel so much more relatable. These were real people with lives, feelings, thoughts.. made me tear up a bit that we can even get a glimpse into the past like this.
@metsfan92286 just like today, not everyone was racist. but historically, people from all over have had racial prejudice. so shush, and let people enjoy things.
@Goose Lord dont ignore the bad parts of history just to feel good about yourself. you need to accept all of it you can acknowledge they were more openly racist and still enjoy the footage
It's amazing how the colors/framerate give an entire new perspective, as much as I like the vintage black and white footage, it has a distortion effect on how things really were and looked like. Fantastic job.
This resolution is amazing! By the looks of it, you would think it was filmed in the 90s or early 2000s. Its amazing what technology can do. There was so much class and elegance back then, wish I could time travel but this is the closest thing to time travel I'll get. Thanks for this upload!
The girl from English Bay Canada in the greenish brown bathing suit was a beauty.More simplicity in those days than todays.Thank you for preserving these videos
Yes, watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.
Wow, I live in Vancouver and have been to English bay multiple times. Truly amazing to see those four girls doing the same things I do when I go to the beach. What a marvellous piece of history.
@@barneyboyle6933 surprised to see this comment here. All of these people wishing they lived like this, not realising they still would if the rebels to this monstrous global order had succeeded. long live the austrian painter.
I love these old videos! A sense of community was so common in those days. Something we lack here in Los Angeles. Nobody in this video is on a phone, or device. They're all just enjoying each others company.
@@tristanflynn4014 i wish I knew what beach your thinking of. Because I go to Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan and Palisades beaches and everyone just stays to themselves. And they are all.on their phones or sleeping.
Excellent restoration and enhancement... Really brings our past to life! Wonderful to feel a connection with this past era, as my dad was born in 1925...
Actually not so accurate at least at one point: people at Odessa beach in 1928 highly unlikely would speak Ukrainian - it would be Russian or sometimes Surjik (mix of Russian and Ukrainian), but mostly Russian, because it was the language of the city from its founding time and the language (or lingua franca) of most of the turists in USSR. Ukrainian itself at that time was mainly present in rural areas or in far western parts of present Ukraine.
Their body was also adjusted and used to dressing like that. They didn't have air conditioning etc. We are spoiled and feel the heat more because of our constantly controlled environment.
Seeing it in color makes it feel so much closer to everything now. To me, this feels so much more human. The colors are so vibrant like they are today. I feel so much more connected.
Wow it makes it feel like this could have been filmed recently. Because it looks so modern, it makes it so much more spooky to think about how its very likely that every single person captured in these videos are deceased. Makes you think about how fast life is...all these people so full of youth and enjoying things that we still do to this day.
Great Depression (with its thousands of suicides and mass homelessness) and World War 2 just around the corner. Sounds idyllic. 🙄 I will never understand those who romanticise the past like that. A primary school level education would be enough to disprove that rubbish.
I love the lady at the end topping up her lipstick on the beach. They all looked so calm, relaxed, respectful of one another. Those brown carriages on the beach back then, were they change rooms? Lovely video, thanks.
Yes, they were portable changing rooms, called bathing machines. They were also common in the Victorian era and were wheeled a little ways out into the water so ladies could change and then plunge into the water without being seen on the beach in their bathing attire.
OK, I understand these films have been colorized, but I'm surprised there were portable movie cameras at all in the 1920s. And with sound, too? Or were voices added later?
I love these videos can watch them for hours! I can't help but think they were doing the exact same things we are doing now, going to the beach, having a picnic, relaxing in a nice cafe, we just have more technology now, but other than that people are pretty much still the same. They did seem to dress more elegant back in the day (the city folk). It is amazing to see them being alive and doing their thing.... one day it will be us in those videos and someone who isn't even kinda close to being born will be watching and thinking the exact same thoughts.....
Kids used to play outside. Now they are stuck on screens. This is different. When these kids will grow up will be interesting to see how they will turn the world.
@ilmioaccount-ce3gh What the hell are you talking about? I hear that crap all of the time from people of a certain age, but I see kids playing outside all of the time. I was only born in the early 2000s, had access to phones and computers all of my life, but I still played outside with my friends all the time.
Exactly! That’s why there’s such a movement to “romanticize” our lives by reading fiction set in this time wearing the fashions, and listening to nostalgic music.
Besides the beautiful work they did on this footage I especially enjoyed watching all the people dressed so beautifully, behaving respectfully. You don't see that anymore today.
i really like this movement or trend where we add color to old recordings and photographs because it makes people relate more strongly to whatever they're being shown. All the photos of an era being black and white literally and symbolically color our view of that time and place. Seeing them in full color humanizes them and makes them more relatable immediately whereas before you would have to read about the people and even then, the style of prose or art can also make them seem more distant. These images bring them to the hear and now. I love that we can now see them as they saw themselves. I'd be confident in saying that seeing history like this may allow more people to become interested in it.
@@balboatarandino You're sad for me because I don't think everything sucks and life is awful and always has been? 'Kay buddy, you might be missing something.
I loved the work of referencing the original footage in the description with a link, it's a great practice that many who "restore" footage don't do. It would be even better if it included exactly what was done to restore it, as well as saying that "machine learning" was used.
My Grandmother was born in 1900. Seeing the dates 1921 she was 21. 1927 she was 27 years old. It was a Huge Deal to go to Vacation and look your Best. Clothing was made better too. Fabrics my Aunt had was way better than what we have today. It’s sad to see the people on film gone from us. Technology gives them a chance for us to see them.
Wow the people in your replies are so sour.... Back off guys. But how incredible it would be to be born in 1900 and live at that time! I'm sure your grandmother had many fascinating stories. And yes, sadly in many ways the quality of life has degraded from back then....
@veryslyfox This is USA, she has nothing to do with most of the bad things that you wrote, except the Great Depression. The rest had happened outside the US and didn't hit the majority of folks.
@veryslyfox In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 4:01pm CEST, 5 July 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered. How about the modern history smart boy? And how did it change the life of the folks? Do you want to tell me that the life was so bad in 2020, 2021, 2022? Was it like a nightmare? Snoop dog didn't make a new video? Trump was so upset, didn't even want to be a president? People didn't get a new Spider-Man game for their PS5? Tech giants have reported soaring profits as consumers upgraded their devices and sought cloud storage during lockdowns. Apple's profits nearly doubled to $21.7bn (£15.6bn) in the three months to 30 June as customers bought pricier 5G iPhones. Microsoft saw a $16.5bn profit at the same time - up 47% year-on-year, due to demand for cloud services and games. My point is that the majority of the population didn't give a shit about it, and it was not the biggest problem during COVID-19 pandemic as well as flu pandemic 1918 as we saw on the video people were happy and doing what they want to do.
@veryslyfox I assume she survived the flu and moved on with life, and the great depression, too. Life wasn't sunshine and rainbows all the time and nor was it hell on earth 24/7/365. Even Neolithic people knew how to have a good time and make the best of what they had.
@@antoniocasias5545 I've watched lots of old casual interviews and most of them don't sound like me (Californian accent). This one just happened to, maybe by coincidence. Idk it's not that deep.
I love it! AND I can't help but feel, with this realness, what it might have been like for people who looked like me to have set foot near beaches like those. It's a sobering and saddening thought for me. Bittersweet experience watching these videos
Aw, don't be saddened. Reflect on the freedoms you have today. You will never have to experience what those before you had. They wouldn't want you to fret.
@@yelhsa298 But maybe they would. It's not known whether or not these atrocities will occur again, given the nature of humans to dominate each other. I wonder if our ancestors would want us to remember what they endured and do our part to keep it from reoccurring
@@dancingshiva7008 Nah, you're right. I just don't like to seeing positivity dashed by unseen evils. For instance, some foreigner is living in extreme poverty scraping a living by climbing into a cramped hole in the ground to get my wife a gold ring, or sawing off their hands for my salt. Should I feel bad when I go to a wedding, or eat salted meals? Should I feel disgusted by those who vacation in Hawaii and exploit local labor? We certainly can, no doubt. But where does it get us? Someone is always going to suffer, I'm trying to cheer OP up.
![Paris 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/n.gif)
It’s weird because this restoration somehow makes the time period feel closer. Sometimes when things are so old you expect people to behave differently but no, everyone behaves pretty much like we do. It’s such surreal feeling.
Yes, exactly!!
Well it’s only 100 years ago not 500 🤣
@@ChloeLux yeah but I still think that certain behaviors are timeless and we don’t realize it. Like I’m pretty sure people were making dick jokes way back when.
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@@ChloeLux yes but we dont think that way. We always think of past times as very old times, atleast when we are young coz we havent first hand witnessed times going in very past ie quite lot years back - atleast according to 'human life span and new generations coming up', that isnt past for you at all, but is just normal time and the times arent that different (hence too) tbh.
I could sit and watch hours of such footage, the closest thing to time travel.
Color brings out a 3 dimensional feeling that black and white lacks. It is also logical that our brains connect color with life and vitality.
Of course, there is a place and appropriate time to cuddle up, late at night and watch old, unrestored, authentic black and white movies, which can add a little challenge, mystery, and desired emotion to the experience--as advocated by my old English teacher of 4 decades ago.
@@dennisgarber hmmm. Black and white did not strike me as such, it struck me just like this footage does
Well said!
Every single person in these videos is DEAD.
the only time traveling to the past we can do
I can't help feel strange looking at these unsuspecting people going about their day, no idea that some 90 odd years later future generations would be watching them in awe and wonder.
@@eily_b What a misery arse you are. Taking your time to criticize an innocent comment. Tough if you don't like it.
@@LittleMissPyeWacket you can't possibly know what thoughts are in other peoples' minds, can you??
I've "predicted" a number of things several decades in advance, and my goodness, it wasn't difficult. :)
Civilization fought for centuries for the right to remain private, and unforeseeable embarrassment and jeopardy could well be a justifiable reason why.
That's why filming in public is one of the most inappropriate things another human being can subject others to.
It's completely inconsiderate to whatever the "subject's" own personal circumstances might be... particularly rough sleepers and the disadvantaged.
@@letsdiscussitoversometea8479 You don't think they knew they were being filmed? Some looked right at the camera.
@@notsheepish8304 you're not *_really_* suggesting that some random person ought to be able to put all those sorts of considerations together in their minds right at that very same instant that they see a camera being placed right in front of their faces unexpectedly, do you???
Let's be realistic with the context of what we're asking each other, when we're asking it.
It doesn't come across as a very intelligent question to ask otherwise, and can be very taxing on the person having to explain themselves.
Have a nice day.
@trollnerd Not sure why you replied this, no one suggested it was a perfect time.
One thing through the generations, everyone has a blast at the beach.
Hats off to all the people who worked to improve the resolution, frame rate, color accuracy, and audio of this footage. Well done!
Seems like AI could restore video in minutes or even seconds, making human restoration editors irrelevant, or at least merely the quality control guy who fixes a few mistakes that ai makes--just as the modern programming coder.
@@dennisgarber The problem with generative AI is that it "hallucinates" and puts in details that were never really there. Human editors will always be necessary when dealing with historical footage, as will coders.
@@selohcin This is indeed a catastrophic problem for historical footage. But I do not see it as catastrophic for entertainment movies or out of copyright clips used in commercials.
The restored film here is first rate.
@@selohcin Yes, but no, they will only be needed for has long hallucinations happens, and it won't take long. Pls don't say "will always need human" for AI software. People should have already realized AI is gonna be better and more reliable than all of us at basically everything in the next few decades. The world will change a lot.
I don't think it's original audio - these are silent movies.
Sometimes I'm reminded that people in the 1920s saw the world just like we do, and not in blurry black and white, it was colorful and clear
Yeah I mean a lot of them would have died in the 70s-00s depending on their age etc so they would have seen quite a few similar things to us which is strange to think about.
Color first appeared in the '40s. The world was black and white before that. The cameras don't lie.
with less industries and less polution, it was even clearer and more colourful than our reality.
@@pcatful that makes sense ...except for those colourful paintings of the italian renaissance....
@@thisisobviouslynotmyrealname The paints turned to color in the 40's 😃
Even when they're just going to the beach, they still dressed up so nice. There was so much class and elegance back then
And germs
Seems odd though to see then laying in the sand fully dressed as if they just came from going to church though.
They look like idiots.
@@Daniel-rz4es How so? Back then people were much more pressured to look their best, and valued modesty. They went places and tried their best to look nice no matter where they were. They wanted to be seen. It's part of being social. Nowadays people just want to be seen on social media.
@@atlantic_love So true👍🏻
The crazy thing about this is old footage seems so rare and scarce to us but with things like UA-cam when today is 100 years ago, they'll have tons of footage of us to say "Did they really dress like that" haha 😊🙏🏼
They also might not be as intrigued about old footage as we are either because it won't be as scarce to them as something from 100+ years or so ago is to us at the moment, if you get what I mean lol
I do love seeing old footage though ❤️🙏🏼😊
I think it might be scarce. I watched a news segment where there's a growing movement amongst middle shoolers rejecting new tech. Instead of iphones they're asking for typewriters. It's kind of insane to think about it being inundated with phones now but if more people keep rejecting it, our footage might be considered rare at some point as well.
Not one attractive woman or hairstyle in the whole video 😅
@@monejohn9973If they had long hair, they never wore it down in this time period.. It was seen as sexual.. It was popular to get short hair cuts in the 20's
@@NandoDiscothe more likely reason would be things like link rot and loss of data as the internet progresses. Most of the internet from the 80s and 90s is already gone. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were internet archaeologists in the future.
The restoration is incredible. It makes me realise how much of our perception of the past since picture/video was invented is heavily dependent on video quality - it influences how the times felt to those of us who never lived in them. Videos like this are sobering in the sense that the world actually looked the exact same aside from fashion and technology. That might be obvious, its not like reality itself had a lower frame rate back then, but to actually see something this old as if it is a modern video is a really strange experience.
I was thinking the exact same thoughts. It made me realize the 20s were just another era and all of a sudden it doesn’t seem that long ago when it’s in color.
I was amazed by the colors
It's like proper time travelling
When you really think about it, 100 years or 200 or even 300 really isn't that long ago, all you have to do is think of someone 100 years old today...then think of someone 100 years old before, etc. And then you're suddenly back several hundreds of years.
Thanks to Deep Learning and AI...
Beautiful and haunting.
Knowing they are not actors in a recent movie but real people, in that fleeting moment 100 years ago, is like falling through time. The colours bring the sense of being present, without the symbolic nostalgia of B & W.
When they look directly at you through the camera, there's quite a strange feeling of connection.
Great work.
Was sunglasses not invented yet!!??
Well said!
So well said! Expresses my feelings too. 👍
You're hearing the voices of actors from I'm guessing 2020-2022 dubbing scripted dialogue not the actual voices of these people because there was no sound film recording in the 2020s!
@@MrHifihifiyes, but it helps to sell the illusion. When Peter Jackson made his film "They Shall Not Grow Old", I believe they went to a lot of effort to lip-read the mouths of the soldiers where possible and record dialogue that represented what they were actually saying. I suspect the approach taken here is a bit more vague. 😊
It’s so comforting seeing people laugh the same way, play the same, even have the same sort of speech patterns when they’re just joking around with their friends. People have always been people.
It hasn't really been that long when you think about it. It's not even 100 years old. It's just a blip.
The only thing is that those places are african now
I don't think the audio we hear is the original, the camera wasn't linked to a microphone back then, it has been added recently for the restoration.
Audio didn't exist then.@@yunapalmer5554
Linguistically, 100 years is literally a baby experiencing 30 seconds of breathing air.
Watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.
That shot of the cars on the street in France looks absolutely stunning, like it was filmed today. Brilliant piece of restoration work on that footage.
It’s like I’m watching 2013 Great Gatsby
if it was filmed today the cars would be on fire
@@masterfulsky Like a Soweto ghetto!
@@masterfulsky Sad to think of the paradise the West gave up in the name of diversity.
@@dancarter482 what cars are on fire there?
Its _absolutely astounding_ how entirely clothed everyone at the beach in Florida is. A full suit and tie. At the beach. You've gotta be kidding.
Just thinking about all the SAND in their nice clothes made me a little uncomfortable.
True, but nice to see either way when people took a lot of pride in their appearance...especially compared to what we see today not even on the beaches but everywhere in public. Certainly not a good sign for America's future.
it's decency, people were very proud and decent then. No twerking half nude slobs anywhere.
Virtue, self-respect, and modesty are nearly dead.
there used to be laws about womens swimsuits. i forget which year were they allowed shorts not more than 6" above the knee
in some places men werent allowed shirtless until almost the 40s
It’s insane to think that everyone shown here is long decomposed and gone. But here we see them happy and full of life.
Yup, all I could think about watching this.
All dead, like we will be soon enough.
@@tartgreenapple it’s almost like we never existed or mattered in the first place. What’s the point of being here in the first place then?
@@styrofoamx229 In my opinion, there is no point. Nor does there need to be. Life just "is".
If from this video we are able to reflect on the limited time we have here, how can we be so quick to conclude (from our own limited perspective) that it simply doesn’t matter? Just because it’s short? I think that’s a poor argument.
My third great grandparents got married in Odessa Ukraine and are also buried there. Although the video was taken a couple years after their death, it still makes me cry. In loving memory of my third great grandparents, Regina Bertsch (1851-1918) Wendelin Streifel (1853-1917) and their children.
What does “third” mean here?
@@rafiashraf2769 they are three generations from me, my great great great grandparents.
Odessa & Black Sea are the best.
When your relatives got married, there was no such country as Ukraine. It was the Russian Empire. Ukraine was a region of Russia until 1991.
@@bazarkin-pubg It used to be one of 15 republics with its own government.
Time marches on. It is wonderful to go back to see these people and places.
We will all be dead soon just like this lot of humans.
most if not all the people in this film are now dead :(
Gotta love it when people wear a tux to the beach
they had suuch class
I'm fascinated with the early 1900s. So much has changed drastically since then from fashion, to technology, to even values and lifestyles. The family structure has even changed.
But the simplicity of enjoying the sand and ocean and sun ties us together.
Thank you for sharing this footage.
Its all gone woke thats the problem.
Yes, I feel like I'm watching something from today, the clothes might be different but it is all familiar.
@@poa2.0surface77 Fake news. There were hand-held video cameras in the '20s. From Wikipedia - "In the 1920s, more cameras such as the Zeiss-Ikon Kinamo, Newman-Sinclair, Eyemo, and De Vry were beginning to be created with *hand-held* ergonomics in mind. These smaller cameras satisfied the demand from both the growing newsreel and documentary fields, as well as the emerging amateur market."
@@guyledouche6839 diversity is objectively a good thing. This comment section is full of right-wingers being idiotic as usual. “Woke”, my ass, it’s called not being degenerate racists.
@@poa2.0surface77I do think the audio was added in after.
Amazing and haunting. It’s a reminder we too will be nothing but memories.
Your soul is eternal. If you die in your sins, you will spend eternity in hell. Repent and surrender to Jesus
We are all just three or four generations from being totally forgotten.
@@stevenrogers8939 We are just one of hundreds of generations that have existed
Jokes on you I made covid.
@@repentandbebaptized108 Great to know that the god who loves everyone sends those who “sin” to suffer for eternity 👏 Sounds like a top bloke 🤪
It’s crazy how much older film footage looks when there’s no colour. Adding colour makes things feel more real
Also important is the more than doubling of the framerate to 60fps, which makes it look less like a movie. The "soap opera effect" that 60fps produces is generally considered too distracting for movies, but suits sports and home movie material like this, since looking as real as possible is the goal. Switching the quality of this video to 480p also drops it to 30fps and helps to demonstrate this. It suddenly looks more like a movie at 30fps and some of the uncanny feeling watching it disappears.
And when the quality isn’t potato like.
im the 399th liker!
I feel the opposite once they add color lol
The color adds something like I was physically there as to see what I saw visually.
This is an amazing restoration. I thought about my parents, who would have been the age of these young people, and felt a great connection. Thank you.
thats amazing, my grandparents werent even born yet
I don't believe for a second your folks were born in the early 1900's...
@@ZakSalter My father was born in 1904 in South Carolina. My mother in 1914, in Staines, England.
@@ZakSalterOlder people do exist, you know. Some of them even use UA-cam.
@@ZakSalter why not, the person typing this might be 80 years old
So strange and interesting at the same time. People alive way back when, but now passed-seeing them as if it's just happening.
Even the kids. All long gone.
Ikr exactly
@@gregdolecki8530welllll there are a few people who get to live 100+ years. So maybe there are a few still alive?
@@gregdolecki8530 Who is the oldest person alive today? The oldest living person as of May 2023 is María Branyas Morera. She is 116 years old. Born on 4th March 1907, the American-Spanish supercentenarian is the world's oldest person. (Source: google)
It always is. And always will be. Right here right now.
R.I.P all these people🙏🕊😢
Gone too soon. 😥
Probably not all of them
@@zoeykeith probs all
@@CR7GOATofFootball some of the young kids on the video may be around
@ItzSneakyMinecraft
A new born baby born in 1929 would be 95. Very unlikely.
I love the Atlantic City clip. There's something so reassuring about the kids 100 years ago goofing off just like the kids of today.
Even 10,000 years ago too
I love those jazzed-up time machine video clips, but it always gives me a stab in the heart to know that these busy, going about their daily lives, sometimes happy people are long gone - ghosts of the past.
Not even ghosts... just soulless memories.
We live and we die that’s our curse. They had they’re time to live just like today we have our time to live, then one day just like we are doing, a future generation will look at footage of us after we are long past. It’s just the nature of things
At some point everyone becomes ghosts of the past sadly that's just the sands of time, it keeps turning weather your there or not.
the littlest kids might still be alive. I worked at a retirement community and there was a resident who was born in the 20s still kickin it. She was nearly a hundred and had recently quit driving her convertible and went from a cane to a walker. But she always came down to dinner dressed and done up all prim and proper. :) I really loved her because she was born around the same time as my own grandmother, so I could see how she might have been were she still here. :)
People die. What really sucks is knowing that in a few years many of these people had to live through the second world war.
Enhanced videos like these are the closest we will come to time travel. Well done!
Maybe not, maybe in top secret projects we've already figured out how to time travel it's just us the public unaware of this. After all, the late boss at Lockheed Martin Ben Rich, once said that 'everything you see on Star Trek we've already done'...
These people feel so ALIVE. Great work!
Everyone happy and enjoying a day at the beach just wonderful.
Wonderful to be a white person lol
Watching videos in black and white makes me feel like I'm looking into the past, but in color it makes me feel it's current with people dressed up😊 Excellent!
Incredible footage. I’m actually always amazed at how much peoples’ mannerisms and speech have changed in just 100 years!
Big facts on god. Bet
Remember that the audio isn't from the video
You need only go back to the mid 2000s to see people acting entirely different from how they do now.
Pretty sure the audio has been dubbed in recently and wasn’t their exact words
Blame the blx and Jews
I loved this. The restoration makes it feel so much more relatable. These were real people with lives, feelings, thoughts.. made me tear up a bit that we can even get a glimpse into the past like this.
My great grandmother born in 1927 passed away recently. This footage is a real treasure, I love it.
1:02 sounds so modern and the ending clip, "you can always see my reflection" wow!
The sound is added after, the original clips are silent
The upressed framerate really makes this look like it's happening today. This is amazing.
And here we are in the 20's again!
Oh how I love the 1920s fashions they are so classy !! 💖💖💖💖
@metsfan92286 just like today, not everyone was racist. but historically, people from all over have had racial prejudice. so shush, and let people enjoy things.
@metsfan92286yes it is. Problem liberal?
@Goose Lord dont ignore the bad parts of history just to feel good about yourself. you need to accept all of it you can acknowledge they were more openly racist and still enjoy the footage
and sexism and homophobia
@metsfan92286 ...oh shut up !!!
Fabulous! I love vintage clothing too!
People look so happy and healthy. Very well dressed, too. Thanks for posting.
Except for the polio and small pox.
I'm impressed by the fashion and the style. Much better than nowadays!
..the sound editing.......10/10!...and brilliant colourization.
Really excellent audio, the wind noise at times made it feel authentic.
Fun to see that people have always enjoyed a nice day the beach 🥰 I hope they enjoyed their time
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@@herrunbekannt3822?
It's amazing how the colors/framerate give an entire new perspective, as much as I like the vintage black and white footage, it has a distortion effect on how things really were and looked like. Fantastic job.
they used AI, so the lack of distortion is just illusion. for me the AI-generated audio actually detracts from the realism of the scenes depicted.
@@adrianthelibrarian The colors arent an illusion. Its much more realistic than black and white lol
The framerate makes them move weird
@@adrianthelibrarian nah
The fashion and technology is different but the people are the same when you catch them in candid moments just living life. What a fun restoration!
The water and beaches look so clean
This resolution is amazing! By the looks of it, you would think it was filmed in the 90s or early 2000s. Its amazing what technology can do. There was so much class and elegance back then, wish I could time travel but this is the closest thing to time travel I'll get. Thanks for this upload!
nothing classier than laying down to sleep on the beach in a full suit! :D
@@ecMonify hahahah I mean that was the style back then so I guess they were used to it 😂
The girl from English Bay Canada in the greenish brown bathing suit was a beauty.More simplicity in those days than todays.Thank you for preserving these videos
i always hear the 1920s talked about as somewhat of a legend so seeing people of that era just living their lives is crazy in a way.
Absolutely loved watching this!
I remember my grandmother talking about what it was like back then...and now I get to see a glimpse of what she saw.
It's hard to explain how I feel watching these people having fun and then realising that they're probably gone. Great restoration btw. 👍🏼
Probably gone? The only ones that could possibly still be living from that time are the children. Even they would be close to a hundred by now.
The form is gone, the spirit moves on.
Yes, watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.
A big part of what really brings this to life is the sound that was added to the silent restored footage. That was a lot of sound design work.
Wow, I live in Vancouver and have been to English bay multiple times. Truly amazing to see those four girls doing the same things I do when I go to the beach. What a marvellous piece of history.
So lovely to see how elegant those days were. ❤
They were dressed too the T and just carried themselves different
They had dignity and pride. This was before the good guys lost WWII and were subjected to half a century of humiliation rituals
@@barneyboyle6933 surprised to see this comment here. All of these people wishing they lived like this, not realising they still would if the rebels to this monstrous global order had succeeded. long live the austrian painter.
@bigdaddy9489you think the holocaust was the good guy?
@@barneyboyle6933black pepper disagree with that😂
I love these old videos! A sense of community was so common in those days. Something we lack here in Los Angeles. Nobody in this video is on a phone, or device. They're all just enjoying each others company.
You mean like everyone still does at the beach?
@@tristanflynn4014 i wish I knew what beach your thinking of. Because I go to Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan and Palisades beaches and everyone just stays to themselves. And they are all.on their phones or sleeping.
You mean like how you’re on your phone/the internet right now instead of enjoying other people’s company? 😂
@@AshleyFromTX exactly! You get it!
Because they didn’t have any devices…
These are amazing. Fixing the colour and speed brings it instantly to life and makes 100 years ago not feel so distant
These are some of the best I have ever seen . So colorful and real . They dressed so beautiful.
The color reimaging makes the people seem modern and vibrant. The audio was a nice touch too.👍😎
I could see the passed instantly with the first gentleman, he has that look of the 1900’s.. wow. 👏
Excellent restoration and enhancement... Really brings our past to life! Wonderful to feel a connection with this past era, as my dad was born in 1925...
They way they look into the camera almost feels like they're watching us. These videos are so captivating ❤
Surprised nobody is mentioning how incredibly accurate the artifical sounds seem. That must be much harder to do than it might seem
Actually not so accurate at least at one point: people at Odessa beach in 1928 highly unlikely would speak Ukrainian - it would be Russian or sometimes Surjik (mix of Russian and Ukrainian), but mostly Russian, because it was the language of the city from its founding time and the language (or lingua franca) of most of the turists in USSR. Ukrainian itself at that time was mainly present in rural areas or in far western parts of present Ukraine.
@@sartorio2007it sounded like Russian to me
This is such beautiful footage. But I just kept thinking of how much they were sweating!
They might have been wearing linen
They had better clothes for warm days then you and me. Natural vibres. 🤗 😂
Very hot weather well before the climate change alarmist agenda began!
Probably wearing Muslin or some other light, breathable fabric made for the purpose.
Their body was also adjusted and used to dressing like that. They didn't have air conditioning etc. We are spoiled and feel the heat more because of our constantly controlled environment.
This colorization is remarkable ,in that the expressions on the faces is so sharp. You can practically read their thoughts!
Seeing it in color makes it feel so much closer to everything now. To me, this feels so much more human. The colors are so vibrant like they are today. I feel so much more connected.
What a time to be in France… ❤
Because a few months later the second world war started after the last one just ended a few months before?
Better than 2021. Flu-la-la!
then the germans invaded
Thank you for making this video so vibrant
Wow it makes it feel like this could have been filmed recently. Because it looks so modern, it makes it so much more spooky to think about how its very likely that every single person captured in these videos are deceased. Makes you think about how fast life is...all these people so full of youth and enjoying things that we still do to this day.
I love these old videos, as an actor who is currently playing a 1920s role they are really helpful to see how people moved and talked back then
Thank you for this. I think if some people could step back in time to that era, they would never come back.
Great Depression (with its thousands of suicides and mass homelessness) and World War 2 just around the corner. Sounds idyllic. 🙄 I will never understand those who romanticise the past like that. A primary school level education would be enough to disprove that rubbish.
I love the lady at the end topping up her lipstick on the beach. They all looked so calm, relaxed, respectful of one another. Those brown carriages on the beach back then, were they change rooms? Lovely video, thanks.
Yes, they were portable changing rooms, called bathing machines. They were also common in the Victorian era and were wheeled a little ways out into the water so ladies could change and then plunge into the water without being seen on the beach in their bathing attire.
@@francine8806 I'd have been shocked then to see a hint of ankle! I'd be shocked now! Okay, I'm sheltered.
OK, I understand these films have been colorized, but I'm surprised there were portable movie cameras at all in the 1920s. And with sound, too? Or were voices added later?
@@peterlawrence6079 sound is artificially added later.
@@latinolawdog5067 you mean the sound of this video arent the actual sound of the clips?
The colors are vibrant and the people are happy. It's an incredible trip back in time. Thanks for sharing!
That was amazing. The sound effects and fantastic enhancement of the footage really brings it to life
None can afford the beautiful elegance and class anymore it’s a real treat to see
it's still affordable. the problem is the stadard of people's behavior and general attitude sucks.
Wow. Real magick time machine!
I love these videos can watch them for hours! I can't help but think they were doing the exact same things we are doing now, going to the beach, having a picnic, relaxing in a nice cafe, we just have more technology now, but other than that people are pretty much still the same. They did seem to dress more elegant back in the day (the city folk). It is amazing to see them being alive and doing their thing.... one day it will be us in those videos and someone who isn't even kinda close to being born will be watching and thinking the exact same thoughts.....
Kids used to play outside. Now they are stuck on screens. This is different. When these kids will grow up will be interesting to see how they will turn the world.
@@ilmioaccount-ce3gh Obvious never been to a public housing project most kids there are outside all the time, the streets are all they know.
@@ilmioaccount-ce3ghKids still play outside. Parks and beaches are full every weekend until sunset. Maybe you’re the one that needs to go outside
@ilmioaccount-ce3gh What the hell are you talking about? I hear that crap all of the time from people of a certain age, but I see kids playing outside all of the time. I was only born in the early 2000s, had access to phones and computers all of my life, but I still played outside with my friends all the time.
I love the hats. 20's hats are my favourite styles. I also love the short hair styles.
Thank you for this, what a privilege to peak back at a time that no longer exist. Truly magical.
Exactly! That’s why there’s such a movement to “romanticize” our lives by reading fiction set in this time wearing the fashions, and listening to nostalgic music.
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
This is uncanny. It's almost from a century ago. Incredible.
If time travel was possible, I would love to spend one day at the beach, with those people.
Yeah if you’re white
Besides the beautiful work they did on this footage I especially enjoyed watching all the people dressed so beautifully, behaving respectfully. You don't see that anymore today.
So amazing to watch in colour and nearly 100 years ago. It’s so odd to think that these beautiful people are no longer with us. ❤
congratulations on such a professional job! Apart from the visuals, the looped-in the sound is extraordinary. Such a high level of competence!
Beautiful images, great restoration 🕵️🥰 🎞️🎥👏
0:13 they had inflatable mattresses back then? I had to google it - it appears they existed in early and mid-1800s
But they obviously didn’t know how to use it.
WOW. Amazing work. Amazing times. Thank you for sharing.
i really like this movement or trend where we add color to old recordings and photographs because it makes people relate more strongly to whatever they're being shown. All the photos of an era being black and white literally and symbolically color our view of that time and place. Seeing them in full color humanizes them and makes them more relatable immediately whereas before you would have to read about the people and even then, the style of prose or art can also make them seem more distant. These images bring them to the hear and now. I love that we can now see them as they saw themselves.
I'd be confident in saying that seeing history like this may allow more people to become interested in it.
I love how you've adapted the language and accent specific to each region. Great detail
Dude in 3 piece suit on the beach. Historical proof the earth was cooler 100 years ago.
It’s a real nice feeling seeing this footage
There's something beautiful they all have in common. What a fantastic and amazin time it must have been.
No that were terrible times as always trust me
@@balboatarandino For the record, I don't trust you.
@@dougler500 sad FOR YOU
@@balboatarandino You're sad for me because I don't think everything sucks and life is awful and always has been? 'Kay buddy, you might be missing something.
@@balboatarandino The 1920s are looked upon as one of the best decades in the world. You’re lying
so many smiles and laughter not today around town im afraid
What the hell are you talking about? Where the hell do you live?
0:20 it's cool to imagine that some of these people could be my Dutch great grandparents, enjoying a day at the beach
Watching these vintage clips with a sense of wonder feeling like a strangely vivid deja vu dream of a past life I never knew I had...
I loved the work of referencing the original footage in the description with a link, it's a great practice that many who "restore" footage don't do. It would be even better if it included exactly what was done to restore it, as well as saying that "machine learning" was used.
This looks better than video that I took back in 2007 of my newborn baby.
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
Happy 17th Birthday
@@HoltRichard Don't hit on her, she doesn't know you, just kidding
My Grandmother was born in 1900. Seeing the dates 1921 she was 21. 1927 she was 27 years old.
It was a Huge Deal to go to Vacation and look your Best. Clothing was made better too. Fabrics my Aunt had was way better than what we have today.
It’s sad to see the people on film gone from us. Technology gives them a chance for us to see them.
Grass always seems greener on the other side dude
Wow the people in your replies are so sour.... Back off guys.
But how incredible it would be to be born in 1900 and live at that time! I'm sure your grandmother had many fascinating stories. And yes, sadly in many ways the quality of life has degraded from back then....
@veryslyfox This is USA, she has nothing to do with most of the bad things that you wrote, except the Great Depression. The rest had happened outside the US and didn't hit the majority of folks.
@veryslyfox In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 4:01pm CEST, 5 July 2023, there have been 103,436,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,127,152 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 2 June 2023, a total of 668,882,018 vaccine doses have been administered.
How about the modern history smart boy? And how did it change the life of the folks?
Do you want to tell me that the life was so bad in 2020, 2021, 2022? Was it like a nightmare? Snoop dog didn't make a new video? Trump was so upset, didn't even want to be a president? People didn't get a new Spider-Man game for their PS5?
Tech giants have reported soaring profits as consumers upgraded their devices and sought cloud storage during lockdowns.
Apple's profits nearly doubled to $21.7bn (£15.6bn) in the three months to 30 June as customers bought pricier 5G iPhones.
Microsoft saw a $16.5bn profit at the same time - up 47% year-on-year, due to demand for cloud services and games.
My point is that the majority of the population didn't give a shit about it, and it was not the biggest problem during COVID-19 pandemic as well as flu pandemic 1918 as we saw on the video people were happy and doing what they want to do.
@veryslyfox I assume she survived the flu and moved on with life, and the great depression, too. Life wasn't sunshine and rainbows all the time and nor was it hell on earth 24/7/365. Even Neolithic people knew how to have a good time and make the best of what they had.
It's good to see people not throwing hands when they see someone recording them ❤
0:57 "maybe you should cut that out" sounds so modern
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@@antoniocasias5545it sounds like a modern American accent and speech rhythm. Doesn't register as 100 years old.
@@ericpalacios920 and you know what 100 year old speech sounded like? I mean you know those TV programs don’t represent the accent you hear everyday.
@@antoniocasias5545 I've watched lots of old casual interviews and most of them don't sound like me (Californian accent). This one just happened to, maybe by coincidence. Idk it's not that deep.
I love it! AND I can't help but feel, with this realness, what it might have been like for people who looked like me to have set foot near beaches like those. It's a sobering and saddening thought for me. Bittersweet experience watching these videos
It would've been a very bad experience for you guaranteed! These are considered the 'good old days' by a certain demographic, for a reason.
Aw, don't be saddened. Reflect on the freedoms you have today. You will never have to experience what those before you had. They wouldn't want you to fret.
@@yelhsa298 But maybe they would. It's not known whether or not these atrocities will occur again, given the nature of humans to dominate each other. I wonder if our ancestors would want us to remember what they endured and do our part to keep it from reoccurring
@@dancingshiva7008 Nah, you're right. I just don't like to seeing positivity dashed by unseen evils. For instance, some foreigner is living in extreme poverty scraping a living by climbing into a cramped hole in the ground to get my wife a gold ring, or sawing off their hands for my salt. Should I feel bad when I go to a wedding, or eat salted meals? Should I feel disgusted by those who vacation in Hawaii and exploit local labor? We certainly can, no doubt. But where does it get us? Someone is always going to suffer, I'm trying to cheer OP up.
@@yelhsa298 "Should I" yes the answer is always yes jfc where's your empathy?