With the help of modern technology, it just got a bit easier to travel back in time. And no, you won’t be using a flux-capacitor or an old Delorean. Instead, you just have to watch a newly upscaled finish, a video from Shanghai, China which looks as though it were filmed just last week.
According to the video credits, the AI restoration process took strides to clean up the noise and even superimpose sound. It also increased the frames-per-second (fps) from 24 to 98 using the Dain app.
Next, the AI raised the resolution from 540 px (pixels) to 4000 px (4K). It implemented a neural network face enhancement. With the help of Deoldify and deep exemplar-based video-colorization, the AI amplified and brought out the colors in the video.
These fixes to this 92-year-old video make it possible to relive the roaring 20s in Shanghai, China, and all the fashion it had to offer:
The video depicts several women giving advice on fashion and hairstyle. Some reports conclude that the niece of Alfred Sao-Ku Sze, China’s first ambassador to the United States, presented this video.
Sze, the multilingual presenter, and interpreter, discusses the popularity of both the western-style bob and the traditional Chinese bob that Chinese women wore in the 1920s.
She describes the preference for high-cut collars, even on western-style dresses, and she shows us the novelty fusion of eastern- and western-style fashion in China at the close of the 20s.
At the end of the video comes a “blooper/outtakes” reel, not unlike what you might find at the end of a movie today. Sze and the other actors laugh on camera, they stumble on their words, they wait for the clapperboard to snap in the background.
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