Trip to the Seaside c.1923 Film Restored to Life & Sound

Holidaymakers at a Dutch beach in 1923 – bathing huts, period swimwear, and a world that moved at a different pace. Here's the full new restoration of my popular 2021 film using a brand new colorization technique. This new version uses deep exemplar-based colourisation, which works by referencing real photographic colour data rather than estimating hue from context alone. The difference is most visible in the warmer, more grounded palette – the sand, the clothing, the light off the water. An atmospheric soundscape has been added as well, which changes the experience of watching considerably. If you saw the 2021 version, the improvement is immediately apparent. I love this film precisely because it shows ordinary working class people simply enjoying themselves. No staged performances – just families, couples, and friends making the most of a day out at the Hook of Holland in the summer of 1923. Social attitudes to swimming remained quite conservative in the early 1920s. Women still used mobile beach huts to change into their bathing suits in private, the huts then rolled directly to the water's edge for a secluded entry. A custom carried over from the previous two decades, and one that the rest of the roaring twenties would gradually leave behind. The film opens with arrivals by train and ferry. What follows is quietly charming – holidaymakers digging trenches and rigging tents on the sand, improvising shelter with whatever they had. The two girls rinsing sand from their feet