South Carolina c.1902: Exposition Footage Restored to Life

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
  • Time travel back to Charleston , South Carolina in 1902 for a glimpse of the Worlds Fair. Silent footage brought to life and color n 4K 60fps. This temporary city, dubbed the Ivory City was built across 300 acres, and was a glamorous affair. The entire fake city was it up at night with the 'new' electricity.
    Better remembered as the Charleston Exposition, the South Carolina West Indian Exposition was a multi-county fair and regional trade exposition held in Charleston, South Carolina from December 1, 1901 to June 20, 1902.
    Behind the glamour, however was the unsavory continuation of slave labor. In this film we see the Cotton Palace. The construction of these buildings used African American prisoners or 'chain gangs' in forced labor.
    The poetic justice of it all being that the organizers lost a fortune when the exhibition ended. The 675000 visitors reached only a third of the projected number.
    Today all that remains is the bandstand in what is now called Hampton Park.
    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 frame colorization as well as the use of deep exemplar-based video colorization techniques. The footage is upscaled and the frames interpolated to a higher frame rate ( in most cases 60 frames per second.) Finally I produce a soundtrack which helps build a new immersive experience for the viewer.
    Together, these processes revive old fragments of footage, offering audiences a more
    vivid and engaging glimpse of lives long since lived in the distant past.
    The colorization process is manually done with the help of Deep exemplar-based Video colorization.
    arxiv.org/abs/...
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    Original footage Library of Congress
    Thomas A. Edison, Inc, and Paper Print Collection. Panoramic view of Charleston Exposition. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1902. Video. www.loc.gov/it....

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  • @st.patty1416
    @st.patty1416 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

    The style and even grace of these people is just so amazing to watch. I could replay it ten times just to see how beautiful and elegant everything was.

    • @M_03256
      @M_03256 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Yes exactly and sadly today's world lacks all of that, elegance and grace. This is a time when the U.S. was a very clean and respectable society with elegant people who respected each other and who actually cared about the way they dressed and the environment they lived in unlike most today.

    • @Stormblast729
      @Stormblast729 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      A glimpse into the world before it all went to hell...

    • @thewanderingamerican5412
      @thewanderingamerican5412 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Consider that everyone was going home to poop in a chamber pot, and it makes it all the more amazing!

  • @PeekabooParrots
    @PeekabooParrots 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    Fascinating ✨Everyone is so observant & walking with great posture 🙌📵

    • @Kiltskills
      @Kiltskills 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The posture in general will be better but I think they look rather stiff and rigid. Much like their values and beliefs.

    • @badcornflakes6374
      @badcornflakes6374 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's them damn phones I tell ya!

    • @rafaelrosal.
      @rafaelrosal. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@badcornflakes6374yes but if you watch 20’s videos they already started to slouch more and more…

  • @silentautisticdragon-kp9sw
    @silentautisticdragon-kp9sw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Thank you SO MUCH for showing the south!!!

  • @lindyc.2552
    @lindyc.2552 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I could watch these old films all day!!! ❤

  • @Alandalton79
    @Alandalton79 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Elegance and refinement are everywhere.

  • @KoolVeg
    @KoolVeg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    All those slim people, amazing!

  • @juleighhastings6224
    @juleighhastings6224 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    And back then, people dealt with the weather and always seemingly care about their appearances ❤

  • @jumboJetPilot
    @jumboJetPilot 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I have an oil lantern that was a wedding gift to my great grandparents from 1901 - just one year before this. I have a second one that was a wedding gift to my great great great grandparents from 1852. Both are filled with green lantern oil to match my green living room which over looks the beach.

    • @misslee6788
      @misslee6788 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Awww that’s so lovely ❤

    • @jumboJetPilot
      @jumboJetPilot 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@misslee6788 thank you! I sure think so too! I just renovated my beach condo and I love how it turned out!

    • @karameliak8118
      @karameliak8118 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Я бы хотела их увидеть ❤

  • @CoffeeCupVT
    @CoffeeCupVT 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Wow - an interesting video with a fascinting backstory! These are so wonderful. Thanks for all your hard work!

  • @leea2112
    @leea2112 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Very interesting thank you I loved it!! 💕💕💕💕💕💕

  • @khaartoumsings
    @khaartoumsings 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Even with the restoration, it is difficult to imagine them wearing those clothes. Especially on a hot day like that. And they had no washing machines or electric irons. Amazing to see. The hats, I imagine, are because they all could do nothing with their hair, men and women? I remember seeing 1900 House where the family went back in time, and it was shampoos and conditioners that they missed most. That their hair was lank and greasy and frizzy! Wonderful restoration ; )

  • @KerryJames-l6z
    @KerryJames-l6z 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Look how respectful they were well mannered well dressed

  • @NORTHERNFARMGIIRL
    @NORTHERNFARMGIIRL 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Howdy🤠👋 @glamourdaze... Another Stunning 😇Job Well Done!!! Wish We Could Chose to Go Back in Time!!!
    LOVE 🙏Your Work!!! Thank You, Made 💖💖💖My Day!!!

  • @theliterarytarot
    @theliterarytarot 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I’ve walked in this very spot and imagined what it was like then… lovely ❤

    • @L.Spencer
      @L.Spencer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was wondering if that building is still there. I should have read the description! 😂

  • @markbrenner7804
    @markbrenner7804 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love this channel..❤

  • @debramage739
    @debramage739 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thanks Glamour Daze. 😊

  • @Tonezhomz
    @Tonezhomz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great stuff!

  • @aidenrogers4029
    @aidenrogers4029 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in South Carolina, so amazing to see this 102 years later.

  • @badguy1481
    @badguy1481 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing! Only 40 years after Charleston was the sight of the beginning of the Civil War. it was later devasted by that war.

  • @Widdershins.
    @Widdershins. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    If you ever find any footage from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, that would be fascinating!

  • @penelopejuno9904
    @penelopejuno9904 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's a difference in people's gait between then and now . Nobody bounces when they walk . The skirts glide like ghosts . Even the men walk without swaggering.

  • @SLynn-ud6vg
    @SLynn-ud6vg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Their walk looks a bit ghostly.

  • @bunschotenspakenburg
    @bunschotenspakenburg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Its as if they float and not walk.

    • @understandinglife2481
      @understandinglife2481 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's becoz they lite in weight and not heavy and muscular like now days

  • @LuizCarlos-lx6oc
    @LuizCarlos-lx6oc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wonderfull!!!

  • @MrEjidorie
    @MrEjidorie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What an elegant lifestyle! But I guess they were members of privileged class, and they were a lot of deprived people behind them.

  • @jamiefoyers2800
    @jamiefoyers2800 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's amazing what that little bit of colour can do...makes all the difference in bringing the past to life...

  • @misssmith7225
    @misssmith7225 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The women with their walking sticks is very interesting. They were not as long as current white sticks for those with vision issues, but they were still used the same way. They have a long white ribbon, folded in half, pinned to their chest. I wonder if these women were visiting on their own time, or with others, and if the ribbon was an identifier for a group, or had a different meaning.

    • @mehoyminoy1326
      @mehoyminoy1326 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Could be a Suffrage Ribbon

  • @jacobschweitzer1068
    @jacobschweitzer1068 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    1. The second gilded age
    2. Edwardian era
    3. The progressive era

  • @PerAllwin1963
    @PerAllwin1963 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    To think that some animals extinct today were still alive when this was recorded. Like the Thylacine and the Passenger Pigeon. 😢

  • @ldqa2737
    @ldqa2737 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I prefer the old B&W.

    • @badcornflakes6374
      @badcornflakes6374 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I appreciate both.

    • @ldqa2737
      @ldqa2737 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@badcornflakes6374 i appreciate both as well 😊

  • @AE5X
    @AE5X 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you look at their feet you'll see that everyone knew how to moonwalk back then. They were amazingly talented.

  • @keith3970
    @keith3970 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And now....let's hear from the experts.

  • @tehabnorm
    @tehabnorm 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    So futuristic compared to todays garbage, and we are supposed to be progressing ..

    • @Peter-f2m
      @Peter-f2m 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yeah…. Everybody thinks our modern world is so advanced and awesome…. If only they knew it’s been getting worse and worse century after century. The whole time cheering on “ progress”.

    • @Dusty-y6b
      @Dusty-y6b 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A southern sidewalk with ppl dressed in hot clothes is futuristic? Who wears black suits in the South in summer?

    • @tehabnorm
      @tehabnorm 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Dusty-y6b you make a great point , how could they have built these building this way in such a short time , dressed like that.

  • @trustenbaker8766
    @trustenbaker8766 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    One of these days that will be us. Someone else sitting behind the computer watching what it was like back in 2024. So since that is the case, it behooves you to consider the Lord Jesus Christ. Because us like them are going off into eternity, and we have one life to make sure we got it right. It's up to you to reject it, or accept it. Time is ticking....

  • @yankorusev
    @yankorusev 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Somewhere in time

  • @cookiebear76
    @cookiebear76 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How everyone wasn't completely soaking wet at all times from sweat prior to the late 1960's is beyond me...

  • @ibeetellingya5683
    @ibeetellingya5683 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    In description: "was [L]it up at night"

  • @Ivanski
    @Ivanski 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    all of them are now on the other side... all of them...

    • @annikarewelo2665
      @annikarewelo2665 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Many of them have long since reincarnated on earth and have new lives. Perhaps they have already been back here several times. Most of us come back again and again...

    • @manomenon1
      @manomenon1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      that makes me sad

  • @Aetherfield
    @Aetherfield 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great videos, but what are you editing out? I would prefer original content for authenticity.

  • @EarthResearch
    @EarthResearch 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Has anyone ever critically thought about how impossible this was to build and also about how those buildings cannot be temporary. Look how detailed and grand they are? They support weight and were apparent built by unskilled forced labor? This is very fishy...

  • @MichaelMike-ob2gb
    @MichaelMike-ob2gb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What the hells wrong with the legs

    • @Heywhatever2022
      @Heywhatever2022 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're right! The legs don't move right. Sometimes the bodies will still be moving forward and the feet are in a stance position. The speed makes them look like a chicken's gait.

    • @Liopleurodonluv
      @Liopleurodonluv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I believe that’s the AI influence.

  • @Ingratulável
    @Ingratulável 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Incrível ...

  • @bunschotenspakenburg
    @bunschotenspakenburg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Think of how simple and old fashioned life was just over 100 years ago. How much has changed since then. But also in just 100 years compared to lets say 6000 years before this.

  • @144chosen
    @144chosen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great vid. Can only imagine how awkward or scary it could have been to be a black trash picker or cleaner there.

    • @au7-721
      @au7-721 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was probably alot safer then. Black on black crime is high in Charleston.

  • @bonniebluebell5940
    @bonniebluebell5940 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These people were "prim and proper". The bar was set much higher then.

  • @jamesgeorge7579
    @jamesgeorge7579 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Everyone talking about how refined and glamorous it all looks, nobody mentioning how the video description says this was all built using forced labor by black prisoners.

  • @natachajarry1180
    @natachajarry1180 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤ 🎩🕰 👍👌🙏🙏

  • @arianeferreira9545
    @arianeferreira9545 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Uma coisa q observo quase não existiam pessoas obesas as pessoas se cuidavam mais 😢

    • @Dusty-y6b
      @Dusty-y6b 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      All the fat ppl were at home?

  • @dspatchin
    @dspatchin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really odd effect to make their feet/legs move oddly when walking. MUCH more pronounced in the colorized version than the original.

    • @Андрей-п8н8х
      @Андрей-п8н8х 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Так же заметил. ИИ исказил эти движения.

  • @n.b1434
    @n.b1434 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    A beautiful, fun, and most importantly, a safe day going to the fair.

  • @mikedrown2721
    @mikedrown2721 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    To be healthy and wealthy back then 😊

  • @GodsCommandmentsAreTruth
    @GodsCommandmentsAreTruth 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How did we go from this to dressing so poorly?

  • @AdriaanStanfield-u1y
    @AdriaanStanfield-u1y 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Real stylelsh

  • @TommyBBQBessinger
    @TommyBBQBessinger 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm a Charleston S.C. native but I don't recognize where this is. Anyone know?

    • @L.Spencer
      @L.Spencer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I don't think it's still there, it was for a Worlds Fair. th-cam.com/video/1kRdRVRne3M/w-d-xo.html (I should have read the description, the info is all there.)

    • @a3p3p3l3e
      @a3p3p3l3e 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      It is where Hampton Park is located now. The bandstand gazebo is the only thing left, and because the event was a massive financial failure, it was quickly dismantled and replaced with Hampton Park.

    • @GenesisFinance-xm9xk
      @GenesisFinance-xm9xk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@a3p3p3l3e the pond is still there

    • @GenesisFinance-xm9xk
      @GenesisFinance-xm9xk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@a3p3p3l3e and the walkways and bridge

  • @Angelarc33
    @Angelarc33 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The architecture is not of this time....

  • @tls9507
    @tls9507 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mike was such a DUD!!!!! DAVID was PERFECT for her!!!

  • @aaronlopez492
    @aaronlopez492 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I don't know if anyone else noticed, but sagging or on a cellphone.🤭

  • @bobertblobert7812
    @bobertblobert7812 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    No computers, no video games, no cell phones or smart phones, no social media, no artificial intelligence, no super fast cars or motorcycles, no high tech gadgets of any kind. And everybody was perfectly happy and content.

    • @theliterarytarot
      @theliterarytarot 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I doubt they were perfectly happy and content, that’s a pretty naive assumption, but I’m sure it helped people connect more

    • @eskaflorence5659
      @eskaflorence5659 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fun fact: Motorcycles had been commercially available (though very rare) in America for four years at that point.