Scenes of Vancouver, Canada 1942 footage restored in Color [AI Colorized, Denoised, Upscaled, 60fps]

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  • Опубліковано 3 жов 2020
  • The original black and white film shows various scenes around Vancouver. The first half of this film documents a Gray Line Tours bus trip through Vancouver and second half contains scenes showing landmarks of Vancouver and surrounding areas. Film contains footage showing: Empress of Japan Figurehead in Stanley Park, U.B.C., Chinatown, Hotel Georgia, Lion's Gate Bridge, Court House, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Capilano Golf and Country Club, Prospect Point, Stanley Park, views of downtown and North Shore Mountains from Little Mountain, City Hall, sailboats in Burrard Inlet, and Swimmers at Kits Beach. Restored it to color using Neural Networks.
    * Colorized using AI.
    * Denoised video to remove dirt and grains.
    * Frames interpolated to 60 frames per second.
    * Resolution upscaled to Full HD.
    * Added sound for ambiance.
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    Contact: inforanker@gmail.com
    Original video: searcharchives.vancouver.ca/s...
    Note the original video is in the Public domain. Please check the link for the license information.
    Music: Blue Danube (by Strauss) from UA-cam Audio Library
    #Upscale #60fps #AIColor #machinelearning #canada #vancouver

КОМЕНТАРІ • 55

  • @HistoryinColor
    @HistoryinColor  3 роки тому +9

    If you liked the video, please hit the subscribe button to watch more historical videos in color every week.

  • @jacobrocks7
    @jacobrocks7 3 роки тому +24

    Wish I can go back and load up on real estate

  • @davezentner7384
    @davezentner7384 24 дні тому

    My Home Town! Born at VGH in Vancouver July 1954. Great Video a window on the past..hard to believe WW2 was raging in Europe and the Pacific.

  • @pranavgainz4180
    @pranavgainz4180 Рік тому +5

    WOOOW!!!! OLD VANCOUVER!!! SEND ME BACK TO THOES TIMES!!!

  • @robertchoutka3191
    @robertchoutka3191 Рік тому +3

    The VIENNA WALTZ is an awesome musical accompaniment to this film ! WELL DONE ✌

  • @barnhall4395
    @barnhall4395 3 роки тому +18

    Nice video from back when Vancouver, and for the next 3 decades, a great city which the world did not know existed. From a native "Vancouverite" older that the video.

  • @JuandeFucaU
    @JuandeFucaU Місяць тому +2

    about 50 years ago my grandfather tried to impart some of his old school knowledge upon me by asking me if I knew why the Hotel Vancouver's roof was the colour it was.....
    (obviously having a roof made of copper was unusual and an interesting thing for a young child to learn but.....)
    I said, "pigeons?" and giggled.
    if there is an afterlife...... I think he's probably still grumpy about that.

  • @Autostade67
    @Autostade67 3 місяці тому +2

    Loved the video but being of a certain age I keep thinking audiowise I should be seeing a spinning space station and a Pan Am spaceliner; thanks for giving me a new sense of my hometown.

  • @user-cc5od3zk4p
    @user-cc5od3zk4p Місяць тому +4

    Amazing how lovely and civilized folks were. And it’s so clean! Sad how we’ve deteriorated.

  • @joepalooka2145
    @joepalooka2145 Рік тому +12

    Ah yes, the good old days when Vancouver was a great port city, laid back and beautiful and wonderful to live in and visit. It was like this up until the '80s and Expo 86. Then it all went downhill. Now it's grossly overcrowd and congested, with outrageously high real estate prices and out-of-control condominium development everywhere. All the night life that Vancouver was famous for is dead and gone, taken over by condos and real estate projects. The East End has become a terrible centre of drug addiction, crime, poverty, and homelessness. Compared to how great it used to be, Vancouver in 2022 sucks.

    • @terrymckenzie8786
      @terrymckenzie8786 Місяць тому +1

      Compared to what other big city?

    • @juquz9476
      @juquz9476 17 днів тому

      ur so lucky to hve lived in white vancouver, im so jealous

  • @iamcanadian7926
    @iamcanadian7926 2 роки тому +6

    The Vancouver my grandparents knew.

  • @VazzVegas
    @VazzVegas 3 роки тому +12

    Back when the city had character. Now all you see is glass and it all looks the same.

  • @prashantsoni1238
    @prashantsoni1238 Рік тому +1

    It seems to be more developed than many cities at present

  • @canman5060
    @canman5060 2 роки тому +6

    Vancouver was very British in those years.

    • @LHRTW
      @LHRTW Рік тому +1

      Unfortunately

    • @GordoGambler
      @GordoGambler 8 місяців тому +1

      British Hong Kong?? LOL

    • @SAMIAMFNX
      @SAMIAMFNX 25 днів тому

      @@LHRTW how

  • @sng1867
    @sng1867 3 роки тому +6

    I sometimes wonder if we can bring people from this video’s era to the Vancouver of today, how much would they trip out? What would they recognize?

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 3 роки тому +1

      They may be frustrated for having the Asian Exclusion Act no more !

    • @robertchoutka3191
      @robertchoutka3191 Рік тому +2

      With the rapid property development, I don't recognize some of Vancouver if I stay away for a few months !!

  • @maxruedy951
    @maxruedy951 Рік тому

    Hard to believe that was only 20 years before I was born here.

  • @chesterjackson666
    @chesterjackson666 9 місяців тому +1

    It used to be the best kept secret in N.America and the world. Then came Expo86 and later the Olympics. With these two events came the egotistical preoccupation about having to become a world class city.

  • @nvanguy6868
    @nvanguy6868 3 роки тому +18

    What a great city vancouver USED to be

    • @canman5060
      @canman5060 3 роки тому +2

      Very British City of Vancouver in the old days.

    • @joepalooka2145
      @joepalooka2145 Рік тому +2

      Amen to that, I remember it very well going back to the '50s.

    • @joeynova9896
      @joeynova9896 Рік тому +1

      agreed. used to be.

    • @mohiuddinalamin
      @mohiuddinalamin Рік тому +1

      Now full of homeless

    • @smallstudiodesign
      @smallstudiodesign Рік тому

      Nice and white, racist and homophobic. Simple times. 😂

  • @DaTripper
    @DaTripper 9 місяців тому

    Imagine selling all the city and making it unrecognizable.

  • @nvanguy6868
    @nvanguy6868 3 роки тому

    Where were those houses

  • @benedictgarry498
    @benedictgarry498 3 місяці тому +1

    1942. Wasn't there a war on?

  • @thefreedomlass
    @thefreedomlass 2 роки тому +7

    When Canada was great...God help us now!

    • @useyournoodle100
      @useyournoodle100 22 дні тому

      God is the one who made it the way it is now, if you believe in god.

  • @fortunatoofamontillado1059
    @fortunatoofamontillado1059 Рік тому

    What happened?!?

  • @Scotford_Maconochie
    @Scotford_Maconochie Місяць тому

    Not a single Japanese person in sight

  • @bothandeach
    @bothandeach 2 роки тому

    Annoying music. The Two Sisters and City Hall only things recognizable by me, although a curious number of men on streets considering 1942.

  • @seemee548
    @seemee548 Місяць тому

    Good old days, no asians.

  • @georgegarabandic6567
    @georgegarabandic6567 3 роки тому +8

    Filming this in 1942 was inappropriate. It depicts people on a tourist sightseeing tour, young wealthy men playing golf...
    In '42, most of the world and many ordinary Canadians were fighting and dying in the war and doing what they can to keep the country free. How would you feel back then if you had a son in the trenches and at the same time you watch the elite living life as if all is normal?

    • @xveers
      @xveers 3 роки тому +8

      I'd be kind of worried if I they had a son in the trenches, seeing as how in 1942 the vast bulk of Canadians under arms were either in the RCN, the RCAF, or drilling as army units in the UK. The only exception to this point was the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division that participated in Dieppe. While I'm not 100% sure, given the weather I'm willing to bet this was filmed in the summer, which would have put it before the Dieppe raid.
      That all being said, Canada had declared war but did not embrace Total War, something that very few powers actually did in WW2 (that being really only some of the major powers, and some of them only belatedly). So it's not shocking that civilian consumption and entertainment is still occurring. And even then, during total war, quite a bit of this still continued to take place as it helped to keep civilian morale up.

    • @southwest3671
      @southwest3671 3 роки тому +2

      I agree with you there. It’s easy to forget people were dying on the other side of the Atlantic while this was filmed.

    • @f355spidersea
      @f355spidersea 3 роки тому +10

      Curious, how have the majority of everyday people lived in a post 9/11 world? Particularly from 2002 to 2010 at the height of the wars? Did professional sports, vacations, TV shows all take a break? Did anyone really stop and think about the sacrifices of Canadian Forces soldiers or any other participating countries forces? Or were people continuing to vacation, raise families and go on with life?

    • @Galbex21
      @Galbex21 3 роки тому +15

      There is nothing wrong with filming everyday life at any moment. No one is judging. Its like saying its inappropriate of you commenting on UA-cam while there is a faming in Yemen and you are just watching UA-cam videos instead of thinking about Yemen or the narco-war in mexico. Doesn't make any sense. Grow up. The world is full of people and moments.

    • @tylero8595
      @tylero8595 3 роки тому +5

      You really didnt know anyone that fought in the war then did you? MY grandpa fought on the front lines. He wanted life to go on normally for my grandma and everyone else. Thats why they fought. They all did their part back then. This just shows some nice good times. Everyone did their part. Dont be so naive.