The most interesting video clip ever.
Edition 4 - AI Producering - Restored with AI image tools
Denis Shiryaev is the artist of this restorative masterpiece. You can check out his company https://neural.love/ He does reference tools featured on his website.
Source footage of "Wuppertal Schwebebahn"was originally obtained from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Welcome to the German town identified as Wuppertal. The year is 1902. Here’s more:
Contrary to the text at the beginning, the city "Wuppertal" didn't yet exist in 1902. Back then, these were a handful of seperated cities and towns called "Elberfeld", "Ronsdorf", "Cronenberg", "Vohwinkel" and "Barmen". These cities were united in 1929 under the name "Barmen-Elberfeld" and were renamed into "Wuppertal" in 1930, according to the fact that the cities are located around the Wupper river.
To begin with, the subject of this content is mind numbing. The "Schwebebahn" is the Chicago “L”, but built mostly above the Wuppertal river to make the best use of the town’s available space. Additional fun includes suspending the train cars from above which adds to the Disney-esque amusement park feel.
To make it easier to understand this project’s scope, the presentation begins by displaying the original source footage. He walks you through enhancements step-by-step with great visual examples. They are:
Upscaled to 4K;
FPS boosted to 60 frames per second, I have also fixed some playback speed issues;
Stabilized; and
Colorized – please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Here is an updated CNN story depicting the modern day enhancements to the “Schwebebahn.”
If you love watching old films, here is another example from the same artist. It is Paris in the 1890’s - one of many films he restored. At the beginning, he goes into brief detail on the restoration process. The 60fps (versus 30 frames per second) makes is luck much more recent.