A Day in 1920s Hollywood | 1929 AI Enhanced Flappers on Film [60 fps,4k]
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- 25 flappers travel to Hollywood to meet Mary Pickford in 1929. Brought to life with AI deep learning techniques.
AI enhanced edit from a promotional of the "25 Coquette Girls". Winners of a contest designed to help promote Pickford's first sound film Coquette (1929).
A pretty pleasant trip back in time to the final year of the Roaring Twenties. The 1920's fashions are a delight. All those bobbed hairstyles and cloche hats ! The girls are filmed on a boat to Catalina and also heading up the funicular railway at Mount Lowe.
The AI Restoration:
1. Cleaned noise artifacts and stabilized film.
2. Increased motion interpolation - from 15 fps to 60 fps with DainApp.
3. Upscaled from 360p to 4 K resolution
4. Colorized with Deoldify
5. Created new ambient soundtrack
6. Added music soundtrack
Coquette ( 1929)
As a founding member of United Artists, Pickford had total control of her work. At her Pickfair studio, she had installed one of the first sound studios. The many issues encountered during the making of Coquette, from heavy footsteps or rattling jewelry, to the soundtrack going completely out of sync during the premiere, were later hilariously lampooned in Singin' in the Rain 1952.
Pickford won best actress in the 1928/29 Oscars. As a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she was accused by some of perhaps unfairly winning, but her performances was generally acclaimed.
Original Title:
Mary Pickford and the Coquette contest winners.
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
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![Paris 1920s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mgVl6Yk4itw/mqdefault.jpg)
I cannot believe those vivacious girls are people in the past. They look as if our neighbors who are just next to me. The motion picture is one of the greatest inventions in the human history.
It's AI enhanced, you're supposed to think that! It's fake!
@@annacatherinesendgikoski1965 That`s correct! All people in films and pictures are fake, and they are not real. But those beautiful girls thrill us, and that`s real. We`re moved by figures in movies as if they are real. Motion picture is one of the greatest inventions in the human history.
Typical male response!
@@annacatherinesendgikoski1965 Is there anything wrong with male response? Do you expect all men to think and feel in the same way as women do? Don`t cry for the moon!
It's not fake.
The AI Restoration:
1. Cleaned noise artifacts and stabilized film.
2. Increased motion interpolation - from 15 fps to 60 fps with DainApp.
3. Upscaled from 360p to 4 K resolution
4. Colorized with Deoldify
5. Created new ambient soundtrack
6. Added music soundtrack
When the girl bounced up on the tram and turned around to wave it was like being among friends. They aren't gone at all. They are here, and still as young and bright and fun as ever.
Ah, I found a long lost relative on the internet!
No, the sad part is, they are gone and so are we
The magic of film. My grandpa appeared prominently as an extra in a couple of RKO feature Hollywood films. One was the road-weary Wabash Indianian. The road band traveling with Fred Astair and Ginger Rodgers in "Roberta." He actually did play trombone in the UCLA Bruins marching band, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and lastly as the trombonist in the studio band for Hal Roach short subjects featuring Laurel and Hardy and The Little Rascals. Didn't make a lot of dough working in the "industry" so he took a government job with the U.S. Treasury Department and wound up working investigations to get Bugsy Siegel, and Jack Dragna put away on tax evasion sort of like they got Capone. I wish there was news real footage of my gramps when he accompanied IRS and FBI agents to Siegel's gambling barges off Santa Monica to confiscate the books. His Name was Dalmon Davis. IMDb misspelled his first name as Delmon.
It just seems like life was way more exciting and adventurous in those days.
Beautifully phrased!
I feel the same way. Its a bit of time travel. I wonder what my relatives were doing. It makes me feel more connected to them all. Sad we can't chat one more time. Life is so strange, we are just passing through.
"You're not getting any younger, just do it"
Wise words. One day we'll all be like these folks in the film.
preach!
Yes...dead.
Moses Divaker - Yep, we shall be like the folks in the film, but something tells me we'll be more like holograms.
@@johnkelly5897 - That is literally what he meant. Life is short. Surprising short and it speeds up as you get older.
@@AnyoneCanSee the speed feeling as we grow old is because basically ... nothing new. With the time we understand ...the grass is green, the ocean blue, turkey on Thanksgiving is always on the table....and so on. We anticipate because we already know. For a child, for a young everything is new and takes time to discover, to understand. More you read books, more you see movies...faster you understand how they will end . And that because of experience. Time is the same. Eyes through we see it , are not.
This is literally so surreal-it feels like I just witnessed a time capsule
Yeah :0
It does, good analogy. Notice how happy people were.
Well said, surreal indeed.
"Literally surreal." :)
But yes, it so totally is!
@@heathershea4721 Uh... you actually think you can deduce that from this video? Why, because they were smiling a lot? It's a promotional video... what do you expect?
This is so moving. This shows that time is truly an endless staircase. People are all the same, the only difference is that we all live our lives on a different step of that staircase.
Very well put!
When you find the girl you've been looking for all your life, but she's 100 years in the past.
Exactly mines at 0:25 w/out the hat
@@bobsheppard8773 Same time frame but in the far back on the last few frames with a red hat. AI messed her arm up though. xD
I believe Hollywood made a movie with that same premise : 1980 : Christopher Reeve / Jane Seymour "Somewhere In Time".
@@lonewretch That would just make sense given my family.
@@stevejoshua9536 that was a WONDERFUL film! Jane Seymour played the female lead.The screenwriter for that film also wrote the screenplay for The Love Letter (Hallmark movie from mid 90s with Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Leigh). It's about a man who finds love letters from the Civil War era in antique desk. While I loved the film Somewhere in Time, I really liked The Love Letter even more.
0:06 That was the loveliest "Hi" I ever heard.
Even with sounds of voice being added to the video they fit perfecly.
I could imagine these people speaking like that.
There’s something so haunting about these sorts of videos. I wanted desperately to hear what all the women were saying, these words were important to them, they meant something and communicated something. I Wish I could have heard more, to hear what was the latest gossip, the latest worry, the latest joy. Before covid I use to love to go to cafe and listen to the sounds and voices and pick up bits of conversation. Why can’t we go back to dressing like this, it’s so simple and classy and practical
I think people would be happier if we dressed as beautifully as they did.
@@bethanyjohnson5598 lol no they wouldn’t
We do dress like this still, some of us. Come to cicada club In down Los Angeles and you’ll see :)
Love this! They're all adorable and look like they're having so much fun. I hope they all lived happy lives.
Yeah, sorry...they didn't! Hindsight is such a bitch...
Well they are either in heaven or hell.
@Justin A It's pretty ironic but the 20s partly caused the depression which I didn't realise until I saw a documentary on it.
In those days they loved being women, they enjoyed life and their social roles, and didn't want any competition with men.
Did you ask them?
Can you reference first hand accounts. Women had only just got the vote or were still fighting for it.
I love this and your channel... It's awesome seeing the past. My dad was born in 1912 and my mom in 1920 so it's wonderful to see how it looked to them. My aunt Jess could have been on that tour as in 1929 she was just 24... my mom said she was a flapper...lol Thank you again.
How old are you now?
In my 60's
Oooooh, I didn't suspect a 60 year old on yt
I loved your comment. I'm a lot younger than you, but that means nothing. I love the innocents of the past, ( I paused nearly every frame ) and the fact no one knows what's about to happen. This was a time between wars, when some thought it would never happen again, whilst others planned otherwise. These remastered videos remind us what could have been.
@@naaibarman5479 That's funny... I am 67 and an old hippie... and I love YT...you can find the greatest things.
I love this vintage style
SAME
Me too :)
Me too :)))
I want ALL of their outfits.
You are funny. 😀
Plenty of 20s repro vintage shops online!
@@nihalc.5539 huh
@@auraandrei146 what💀
Not the fur, no. But the rest, yes.
These never cease to absolutely blow my mind. Thank you for the content!
They are all so fashionable. Hair, makeup, clothing.
All beautiful...nothing like today's women....
@@keithbrown8814 woman today facial hamonizaded and Instagram
100 yrs ago...women took pride in being a "woman"................................. as God intended it to be.......Male and female....a fantastic and beautiful arrangement
The outfits, the hair and the hats. - This was amazing!
A few years ago, I took a trip to California. We stayed on the Queen Mary and then took a cruise to Catalina Island. Those two places were so Art Deco and "early Hollywood," and I just couldn't stop thinking about how much fun it must have been to be a girl during that time period in a big city. Life looks so simple, fun, and still elegant in these old films. Thank you!
A. D. I would love to go to Catalina. I often wonder how much it has changed. I didn't know you could stay on the Queen Mary! I also love that era of Hollywood. There is a Marion Davies picture called "Show People" that shows downtown Hollywood. I love it. My dream is to take my daughters to visit the Hearst Castle.
SO glad I'm subbed to this channel!! I find stuff like this both haunting and beautiful. Haunting because I know these people are likely long gone, but beautiful because seeing and hearing these people makes them more real than an image. I love looking at old b/w photos of the area I live in, but I'm always left wondering how the people behaved and sounded. Thanks for sharing these videos with us.
These videos are priceless.
This is the closest we'll ever get to time travelling. I am so drawn to the past. People in the future will be looking back at us and observing in awe how things were long ago.
And they will say ..."wow the 2020's people sure were ugly...tattoos, piercings, funny colored hair while they sit and stare at their device trying to figure out what gender they are while packing on the pounds.....a truly sad generation that thinks the world owes them everything for free without any effort put forth
@@keithbrown8814 I was just thinking yesterday about those commercials in the 1960's that showed a cartoon figure of a human with a larger than life head and useless arms and legs: future man. Then I too thought about obesity and the sadness of life being observed (rather than experienced) via entertaining devices. I have been surprised at the number of people who have become health conscious and flock to the gym, run, etc. But most do not.
I adore the 1920s clothes they are so beautiful this is amazing it feels so surreal!! 😃👍❤
I'm beginning to really love this time period. This was fun to watch.
But maybe not to much to live in. Not everything was Hollywood ! Like today.
@@cameliap1146 Today is bad too.
This is 1929 - the beginning of the worst 15 years in modern history. Worldwide depression for a decade which was only ended by the worst war in history. 30% unemployment - one person in three had NO income. Medicine was still fairly primitive. Minorities and women were treated unbelievably badly.. The media of the day tried to cheer people up with fluffy comedies and musicals. Much of what we see today is from movies of the time.
@@trimule People in 2077 might say the same about the 2020s.
I mean, talking about the decade flaws.
This is a wonderful treasure to behold! Thank you for allowing us to travel back in time, if only for a moment.
It's really amazing how you put these together like it was filmed yesterday
I'm in love with this beautiful clip of time that past such a beautiful time to live
I really enjoyed this and the fashion, and of course Mary Pickford! Ty!
The Mount Lowe excursion it looks like. You can hike it and it is amazing and glorious on a clear day. You can see Catalina Island from the tippity top.
This made my entire year... already a 1920's fan, this was the ultimate icing on the cake... one can almost reach out and touch them with such glorious 3D.... the innocence, they're happy, laughing, not mindlessly staring into cell phones, no Covid.... please send me back quickly. It's barely possible to thank you enough for this post and all the other ones as well.
I was transported to the future without my knowledge...and I've been trapped ever since. This is one of the only ways I can see what has happened since I've been gone.
I know that feeling all too well.... Short of hooking up with a tardis, I guess we're stuck here....
@@morellawalker373 :D
I agree, we all came from somewhere in the 1920s.
I got anemonia everytime I watch videos like this, I feel nostalgia for a time I haven't lived.
@@brennocalderan2201 :) Yes...sometimes it's very overwhelming.
@@lonewretch Would that be so bad? *G*
I personally just discovered your channel. Real life at its best. Your restorative work is amazing. I am now binging on all your works. Many thanks.
Very interesting to see new footage from Mount Lowe. It was one of Los Angeles’ best attractions in the 1920s.
Kent Courtney No longer?
I had an elderly relative who was about that age. She said their motto was "Live fast, and die young.!" I still miss her.
Beautifully done. It'd be such a cool experience, being there!
And something to tell their grandchildren about.
Ditto!!
This is so great! Mary Pickford was a gem. I love her in My Best Girl. One of my favorite films.
This is amazing what you’ve done with these old films. I’m enjoying them all. Thank you.
I find this to be so incredible, beautiful and yet so very eerie...it feels like you could walk along the street & pass them by today , hard to believe it was so long ago in the Land of Once Upon a Time ...thank you 🇨🇦
That is great!
Thank you for sharing your patience and talent of restoration & enhancement!
Just love these. You think they acted different years ago. They didn't. Without hats and style of clothes, it could be filmed today.
I'm not really a "train person" but I am in media. That train horn was from a diesel engine. They didn't run diesel powered train engines in Southern California until 1936. Replace that horn with a steam locomotive whistle and it would be perfect. Everything else is very good though.
I love to watch the flappers from the 20's! I had 5 aunts that grew up in that decade and they were all "mum" about any shenanigans that when on. But they all ratted on each other to us in the 50's and 60's. Oh what great scandals we heard about but were threatened to keep our mouths SHUT! I wish I could have seen my Aunts then!!!
Oh, do tell!
Yes, my aunt Bill (actually Willimae) had lots of her dresses from the Flapper era, some all sequins with matching clutch bags. I sure wish I had some photos of her wearing them! I'll bet she was a real wild gal, she was even when I first remember her when she was much older and I was just a kid. There were whispers in the family that she'd also had some "shenanigans!"
Amazing work! So strange to see :)
This is like a Somewhere In Time moment.
Brilliant. The soundscape and spoken text turns it into semi-reality, a step up from providing a generic soundscape (and even that enlivens the material substantially).
OMG this is ABSOLUTELY so good....These women were so Dressed up and so BEAUTIFUL......
I absolutely love this! Amazing work, as always🖤🖤
My father was 5. incredible movie to watch. to go back over 90 yrs. alot has changed since then.
Somewhere there is a someone that had a grandmother that used to say "I once went to Hollywood and was on the set of a big movie. Hollywood paid for my entire trip for me to go meet Mary Pickford."
And everyone would say "yes, grandma."
"She's talking about Hollywood again, give her her medication."
That's exactly what I was thinking, and I wonder how the lucky ones were selected. You think this was such a special day they were wearing their very best.
Thank you so much for posting this. My parents were born in the 1920's. My mother's aunt was a hoot. She was also a flapper who smoked and whose skirts showed way too much leg to suit her parents. I adored her. The ladies featured in this clip would be about her age. This was great.
My great aunt was a flapper in the '20s. She worked at a Chicago nightclub & got to dance with Rudolph Valentino when he visited there. She passed away in the 80's but I remember how she glowed when she told me that story.
Wonderful video. Thank you so much.
💙💃🕺🎶💖
Hubba Hubba, 23 skidoo. These ladies are the cats meow. Wonder if they went to a "speakeasy" with Rudolph Valentino or Charlie Chaplin?
No. Remember, they were chaperoned...however, not sure the chaperone could keep track of all 25 all the time. Just saying.
I do appreciate the link to the original, unaltered film.
I love this era! Thank you so much for showing this
It's almost you could give the girls a High Five it is so clear!
I love this, i am so happy they filmed all kind of stuff back then.
This is like going back in time to see the past
I’ve been up to Mt. Lowe/Echo Mountain many times. If you look down from where the tram station once was, you can really get a sense of how harrowing the 4000ft ascent would have been, in basically a wooden box with seats. Much of the tram station is gone except concrete ruins and giant, rusted old gears. And nothing to indicate the Mount Lowe Railway existed except for a dirt road where the tracks once laid (1:18). Amazing to think that such a thing could be built at that elevation with the technology (or lack of) available at that time, which would have been about 1893 when it opened.
I really enjoyed watching this. Good morning from Australia 🇦🇺
G'day
I love how elegant and beautifully dressed these ladies are! ♥️
Yeah, not a cheap skank amount them.
i wish the women today can dress like this
Some still do and they get misjudged by the jealousy of other women. It’s terrible. Style doesn’t have to be costly but many people confuse the two.
@@auraandrei146 indeed! It was never money, luxury had never meant money, it has always meant taste..until todays world. Design wasn't just for the rich, everyone had an astonishing outfit, heaven I'd gawk at the outfittery that my grandparents had from their old days, it was absolutely magnificent. All hand tailored, whilst in modern world of 1946, we would go to the store and browse the options, which were many, colors you dare say you have never seen which was the frankful charm of the mid century ideal. Lets see If I remember one store I stopped by in around 1953, or 54, they have melody green, Caprice yellow, Glenwood gray, Bermuda turquoise, Pinehurst green gee you could tell the color enthusiast namer had a gasz' while getting into it! Such fun modern streamlined names.
I know, in the UK the flappers have been replaced by slappers and they don’t dress like that.
Stop posting these! They’re too addicting! 😉
No, actually, bring on more. These are so neat to watch!
This is my favorite so far.
My gosh Mary Pickford, only seen her in pictures not video! 😲😊. I love this video, if I could only jump into the video and joined with the girls! Thanks for sharing
AMAZING JOB, you have done. thanks for sharing this
Amazing videos by glamourdaze! It makes me a little sad to know these people are dead and long gone. These videos are a cool way to honor their memory.
They need to bring back hats, what beautiful times, just have fun all natural ladies...❤️
And gloves.
Due to progress in film making nowadays the past is not simply some black and white era anymore. Coloured, digitalised pictures literally bring us closer to our ancestors than ever before.
Just women enjoying being a woman with their friends, however as they wish -something that their mothers or grandmothers probably hadn't had a chance to have
Lol people still enjoyed themselves in the Edwardian and Victorian eras
@@alliemae26 sure they did, but not with THAT attitude i think 👆
i mean, i don't think they would laugh with screams and jump at those times.
@@cunkonankara They most certainly did! They had longer skirts and more rules about manners, but they still ran, laughed, jumped, played, and took silly photos. They were lively then :)
Yeah I saw photographs from the 1800s and the woman was making goofy faces at the camera.
@@cunkonankara You'd be surprised! You should watch some of Miss Pickford's movies!
I wonder if any of them returned to Hollywood to try and make it
This video makes me feel like I was there
Wow, what a thrill for these young ladies to meet the great Mary Pickford and how cool she was showing the girls her new hair-do and seeing them off.
The Mt. Lowe railway excursion is something is a rarity, and the history of that endeavor is an interesting study all by itself. It must have really been something during its heyday.
Absolutely superb. The "realness" of the images and the sound quality is better than any Hollywood movie of the time. KUDOS!
Thank you for this! The video is clear and so is the audio, that when I heard the girls
talking during their mountain trip, it felt like it is just a day old video, like taken yesterday, and the women are just dressed differently! Fascinating.
It's not the real audio. The audio from this is just stock audio.
Ya know these things are just SO neat, I do love for some reason looking at these old 1880-1950 old films. That girl at .06 seconds who says "hi" was just such a cute moment, the way she said it kinda took me off guard. it's like that one word told her whole personality when she noticed the camera, smiled and said it. I mean i just instantly wanted to say "well hi there, nice to meet you" and get to know her (Friend wise), I just instantly wanted to know about her life and have a coffee.
An original American beauty!
My favorite channel on UA-cam 😍. Thanks for always delivering unique content
There is a plaque in downtown Toronto (now a hospital) indicating where Mary Pickford was born.
Mary Pickford was the original Girl Boss. She made millions, directed, chose elements of her own films, and founded a Hollywood Studio, United Artists.
These films make it seem like you are in the picture. I've always wanted to time travel and be a "fly on the wall" and you have given me a way to do that. My grandma and grandpa were 29 when this film was made and this was the year of the biggest stock market crash in history that devastated the country for years afterwards.
Wow,the beginning of the Great Depression in colour and sound, amazing!
Mary Pickford... Who is "Mary Pickford"? Oh, yes ! She It is mentioned in Ilf and Petrov's novel 12 Chairs (written in 1927 ! )) . She probably was for the inhabitants of the 20s the same artist as Madonna for us today ? What close times on the scale of our time....Thank you for the " time machine"
The opening ship shots are Avalon, Catalina Island. The ship in the background is probably the S/S Catalina, which ran L.A. to Avalon until the early 1970s. In the later shot (ship departing Avalon for Los Angeles), the Casino can be seen in the background with the large rock on the point forming the west end of Avalon Bay (Sugarloaf Rock), having not yet been removed. Construction of the Casino was completed in 1929. Great video!
So MAGIC!!! What lucky they were to meet Mary PICKFORD !!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌸🌼🌹
Just think how the dress has changed in just 10 years from the 1910s to the 1920s , This was a revolution like none other in such a short time period Women actually showing their legs .. this would have been unheard of just a decade before.
Those women seem modern even by today's standards. The 20s must have been awesome.
The sound effects are excellent as well .
This AI enhanced old footage is just unbelievable. It makes the past come alive in ways in ways that are hard describe. And as a avid hiker in the mountains of SoCal to actually see footage of people actually taking the Mt. Lower incline is just amazing!!
Incredible! The sound effects are a nice touch.
Amazing work!! So enjoyed it
Seriously SO. FREAKIN. COOL.
The added chatter and babble only make it better. So much fun to see.
Це ж треба так реставрувати.., як наче рік тому знімали..! Це прекрасно..Its beautiful !
Love it and enjoyed it I wish you could also do some of Rudolph Valentino clips that would be awesome to see God bless love this!!!!!!
If only he had spoken into that horn im 1923 as well as singing into it! For a few brief seconds in El Relicario he breaks into speech....so tantalizing but so little....
This is very cool. It looks like a real life version of those sci-fi shows about going back in time.
It's crazy how positive comments are on this videos ,on the USSR they were so negative , russophobia is still extremely prevalent
Would love to see some of these ladies today. So cool
All long dead now...whew....Reminds me of Shakespeare's brilliant graveyard musings in Hamlet.
@@lonewretch Imagine if some large object or dense cloud obscured the Sun's light for, say, 100 years. Or we were hit by a much more deadly form of a virus than Covid f which lingered for 100 years. Or we were struck my a large object from space. There would be no next generation and this would spell the end of humanity. This is how tenuous our human existence really is. It has to be completely renewed every 100 years or so. Modern Homo Sapiens have only been around for 300,000 years. Dinosaurs lasted from 250M BC to 65M BC, but even they perished after one meteorite strike. Scary to think about.
god if any of them bought some real estate back then...
I just found your channel!
Yoyo - you’re only young once
Angel says “you’re not getting any younger, just do it” timeless advice.
An slice of the time a century ago. I wish we had far more old slices, say some thousand years ago!
0:25 Everyone with a hat on their heads except this rebellious girl.
Awesome to see some of the Mt. Lowe railway built in 1896 - 1936....San Gabriel Mountains.
No longer there but you can still see some of the areas where the tracks were. Very cool.