Blackpool, North Pier, 1903. AI Enhanced. Coloured. Sound Added. Cleaned. Upscale 4K 60fps
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Featuring a brand new colourisation method. You will not find this anywhere else on TH-cam. Though not authentic the colouring presents a more realistic environment and offers a broader range of colour than other techniques. It is now possible to enhance the atmosphere of these old films hugely with this colourisation method. Video colourisation is finally moving forward to wards a more authentic representation.
Pop back 120+ years to the beginning of the Edwardian era, where Blackpool's North Pier reigned as the epitome of elegance and refinement. In the late 19th century, the trend of 'pleasure piers' had swept the nation and Blackpool, the coastal crown jewel of Lancashire, proudly boasted three of them. Among these, the North Pier stood apart, drawing the crème de la crème of society. This mesmerising glimpse into history reveals a bustling scene, where the well-to-do parade with sophistication, donning top hats and fashionable finery.
This few minutes of footage captures the essence of the era, leaving us wondering whether the pier had always been this popular or if the allure of the camera enticed extra crowds. As the camera pans, the iconic Basset Big Wheel and the renowned Blackpool Tower come into view.
The myriad of faces and expressions, all fascinated with the camera, makes for compulsive repeated viewing. Many of the characters return to wander in front of the camera multiple times.
In the Edwardian era, Blackpool was the go-to destination, welcoming over two million visitors each year. The vibrant tourist trade spurred massive investments in the amusement sector, making Blackpool's funfair attractions the envy of the world. Standing just 400 meters from, the then new, awe-inspiring Blackpool Tower, the North Pier emerged as an architectural masterpiece, embodying the essence of Victorian seaside charm.
Today, more than a century later, the spirit of the Edwardian era lives on, as over ten million people annually embark on a journey to Blackpool. The North Pier stands as a timeless symbol of the past, offering modern visitors a glimpse into a bygone world.
Mention must be made of hats, there is not one single person without a hat. Some of the Ladies hats feature ribbons, extravagant bows, various cloth materials and even a full bouquet of flowers. An older group of Ladies, clearly Victorian in dress, all wear feathers. The men wear bowler hats, top hats, flat caps, boaters etc.
At one point two young lads even wander through the scene each wearing a mortarboard! Followed by a third young lad again wearing a mortarboard! It seem you were very much undressed if you did not wear a hat.
✔ Dust, scratches, film damage and image noise removed.
✔ Stabilised.
✔ AI optimised.
✔ General details recovered.
✔ Face details recovered.
✔ Compression reversed.
✔ Sharpened.
✔ Tone balanced.
✔ Colour profiling.
✔ Colourised.
✔ Colour graded.
✔ Soundtrack sourced and added.
✔ Ambient sounds sourced and added.
✔ Upscaled to 4K.
✔ Upscaled to 60 fps.
✔ Animation.
✔ Secret Sauce.
✔ Second Secret Sauce.
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11 years later and many of the young boys we see here will be gone forever. At least they live on in these videos. Amazing. Bravo sir.
Another generation sacrificed. Thank you. :)
Look at how well dressed and clean everyone is? Brilliant 👏🏻
Quite a contrast with the shabby mob likely to be encountered in the same place today!
Visit Blackpool today and then try to make the case for 'progress'! Wonderful images of our history and heritage. Bitter-sweet, to say the least!
Whatever do you mean by ‘progress’?
@@edwardbateman3094 That thing that they keep on telling us that we're enjoying, which includes capitalism, liberalism and multiculturalism,.
@@theendofeverything6356 oh so you’re a fascist?
@@theendofeverything6356 in the end we got what we asked for didn't we... our obsession with the destruction of the huns lead to our own downfall! two world wars and the USSR and USA conquered our lands... tough one to accept but its true. And now we import US capitalism, liberalism and multiculturalism.
Immigration for you, as well as poverty and desperation, although the later two were even worse back then!
Wonderful to think that all these people are now immortal.
That was the plan, immortality. :)
Wow, that was amazing! The way the people look straight at the camera is almost unnerving. It must have been a Sunday, all of them in their best clothes. I've never seen so many bowler hats in one place. And nobody on the beach, everyone on the Pier. The musical accompaniment was good too.
Great to hear you enjoyed it. It was a hat makers heaven :D
What a wonderful era
Wonderful, music really fits too
Thank you! 😁
Absolutely amazing!!!!
Thank you! :D
Nice bunch of jolly good fellows
Thank you, I love watching these old videos, you've done a really good job
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All very smart. A Sunday...?
More likely a Saturday. Sundays still being a "day of rest" back then.
Credit to you , amazing.
Thank you :D
I am confused, where are all the African/Indian immigrants who claim to have built Britain?
I marvel at the technology that manages to produce such clear and emotive images from OUR past. But at the same time it saddens me so much to see what our once great nation has become. How many of the people in this film lost their lives in defence of OUR country eleven years later? We have become a lifeboat for the world. I was once quite a tolerant man, but now I have absolutely no time or empathy for these invaders to OUR shores.
They don't look like that in Blackpool now, much fatter and with tats, I think 1903 was the high point, gone well down hill in the hundred plus years since
If you had a hat or suit selling business you were a gazillionaire.
unbelievable and even one if them talked , unless I was seeing things.
Hats must have been a thriving business in that hat....
Wonder which one's are smoking the " Sullivan's" ( posh cigarettes).
Would love to hear the restoration tutorial of this kinda amazing work
Brilliant, and not an ounce of unwanted flesh on display.
It's a bit on the crowded side, though....
The film makers had people walk in front of the camera multiple times and others did that by choice themselves. So it's all a little unnatural, I guess, but mesmerising.
.. Not quite true, there are the odd plump-face ones passing through .. Bit of a myth that were all trimmer-figured then !
Amazing!
🙏
toss in a couple of 'i'll say!'s for good measure.
11 years later some of those men and boys would be in the trenches fighting for their lives.
How original
@@seansmith445 Cheers Sean.
No. Fighting their kings cousins army. How stupid are people.
Everyone on this film never had a kebab.
Nightmare material
Everyone's eye's look strange. The "AI" has not really done a good job. A lot of the men with glasses look the same.
How can this possibly be real? I keep getting told that 'we've always been diverse and multicultural'? I suspect this is AI generated, as are all the videos on YT of London from the same time period.
Tall tales a plenty for many a year me thinks.
Being multi cultural is not about your appearance, it is about culture. Perhaps you have heard of the industrial revolution ? That was when many people came to Britain from Europe to work alongside others and Blackpool is not far from industrialised heartlands like Manchester, where Italians for example and others went. That is 'multicultural' for it's time even if that term is used to imply maybe 'people from Asia etc' -but that is true for London at least, many Indian people were in London in the 1800s.
try finding out for yourself instead of relying on what you've been "told"
what does 'AI enhanced' mean?
Sorry. This is terrifying.
Everyone in this video is dead.
Cheerful :)
@@livinghistoryaienhanced True though 😂 This video is great. Gives me more of feeling of: these were people that really existed. Life is short
@@Daryn031 Thanks. :D "life" blink and you could miss it :)
no $hit Sherlock
I am not.......I was the one looking at the camera , with the hat
Its also entitely possible that all of this remastered footage is fake. Just watch the music video for 'tonight tonight ' by the Smashing Pumpkins. This should give you a clue as to how our reality can be manipulated.
Good attempt.
However, Blackpool pier was for pleasure even in 1903: and I assure you everybody didn't dress in colours befitting a funeral.
Thanks for the comment. AI video colourisation is only just starting to edge on to the edge of realistic, there's a long way to go yet. :) It's a very niche area, so progress is not as fast as in other AI development. I'm using the very latest tech here, no other similar channels are producing the range and accuracy of colours in their upscales. They are mostly continuing to utilise outdated tech. Yes, there is some standardising of colour and minimisation of variety by the software but consider how much movement there is in this film. All those faces, all those bodies of different sizes moving in different directions, in the foreground, middle ground and background, at different speeds, all being tracked for consistent colouring. :) More individual focused coloured party frocks will come. :D
I'm also already working on other methods to broaden the range of colour and improve the realism. So stick around. :D
@@livinghistoryaienhanced Good job there, but what kind of computer/software/processor do you use? I'm guessing you need a massive amount of RAM and the latest processor and CPU power to do this king of work?.
@@Embracing01 Thanks. My main system is a DTR. Which means I can run a desktop GPU and CPU in a laptop. So I'm portable but the downside is I can't upgrade as per a desktop. Ryzen 9, Nvidia RTX 2070, 64gb Ram, 1tb SD. Premiere Pro, Neat Video, Topaz VIdeo AI, RunwayML.
From what I remember the Blackpool video took 4.5hrs to upscale from 1080 to 4K and it's only 2.45 minutes long. It was previously upscaled from 720 x 540. Cloud processing is the way forward for this kind of work. I've signed up with a few services but I've yet to use any.
@@livinghistoryaienhanced Thanks for that. That sounds like a very expensive machine, those Ryzen processors are expensive, even just a 16GB RAM machine is about 500 quid.
@@Embracing01 £2K 4 years ago. Though it's rare there's a day when it's not used. :)
The BBC tell us we’ve always been a nation of immigrants and that black people were here in Roman times
Can you see them?
No, me neither
I suspect we are being lied to
You are being lied to. Because white Europeans were moved to the Americas exactly the same way people from other counties are being moved here now. It's one big loop that doesn't end even when you snuff it.
History and the present are continously being re-written.
It’s incredibly weird that you watch this video and that’s what you take away from it.
The chances are that all white British people have at least one black ancestor from hundreds of years ago. There were indeed black people in the British isles in Roman times (there was a black Roman emperor, Septimus Severus) and in the 1700s there was a large influx of black sailors who stayed, married and integrated. Black immigration into the UK has waxed and waned over time; obviously, the most recent example would be the 1950s.
I understand that Blackpool was class segregated, with the North Pier the stomping ground of the upper classes (mill owners, etc)and seeing all those top hats and bowlers that would appear to be true (they did like the colour grey). The South pier was the playground of the shop floor workers from the self same mills, where you were more likely to see a different cross section of society. (Think of Titanic's "steerage" class) but the cameraman would not waste his expensive film on them.
no replica football tops ? royal engineers ..... old etonians are coming to get ya ...