A Day at the Beach c.1899: Silent Film Brought to Amazing Life

Time travel back over 120 years. San Francisco crowds descend on to Ocean beach, below the iconic Cliff House hotel. Restored to life and colorized with added sound using manual and algorithmic techniques. Filmed circa 1899 - 1903. The famed Cliff house is seen in the background. It burned down in 1907. The completion of Point Lobos toll road (now Geary Boulevard) in 1864 greatly improved access to the beach for weekend crowds. You can see a long line of people walking down to the shore. The Cliff house was built in 1863 and became one of the sight to visit when in San Francisco. The building survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake only to be burned in a dramatic fire in 1907. A smaller Cliff house was built afterwards only to be closed in 1924 during Prohibition. Turn of the century America from 1899 to 1909 was otherwise known as the Progressive era in the USA and the Edwardian era in the UK. Women's fashions still reflected Victorian style. Hair still tied in pompadour rolls under colorful straw hats. Dresses were long and tightly fitted over corsets. The post WW1 1920s era would change all that. AI Enhanced 4K 60fps film by Glamourdaze.com Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization - Bo Chang & associates Read the teams paper on deep exemplar based video colorization here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909 How silent footage is colorized and brought to Life I take early fragments of silent 16fps footage and restore them to life by a combination of manual frame by fra