A Day at the Beach: Roaring 20s Footage Restored to Life
Time travel back to the roaring 20s for a beach vacation at seaside resorts around the world. 1920s fashion and flapper culture brought to life. AI Colorized w/ added sound and remastered 4k 60fps
See the glamorous era of the roaring 20s, the vintage fashions and styles, brought to life in beautiful colour and sound.
Glamourdaze used machine learning AI to enhance these films, adding color and creating sound ambience to bring them to life. We upscaled the resolution to 4k 60fps, so you can truly immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the past. You'll feel like you're really there with the people as they enjoy their day at the beach.
So join us as we step back a century in time to the world of 1920s flappers, their wild fashion, bobbed hairstyles and forgotten vintage stories. Now brought back to life by the magic of AI.
Chapters:
00:00 Palm Beach Florida in Florida in 1920. A group of high society friends relax by the seaside in the January sunshine. The early 1920βs styles represents the high fashion worn by wealthier people in 1920. From the hats and turbans to the beach parasols and pretty summer dresses.
Watch the full film: Palm Beach Scenes c.1920
https://youtu.be/jCWJYZM9yeU
00:18 Hook of Holland beach in Europe 1921. Working class Dutch people arrive by train to this popular seaside resort. Note the mobile beach huts for women to change in to their bathing suits. The two girls rinsing the sand from their feet is particularly charming.
00:38 English Bay Vancouver in Canada in 1926. Real 1920s flappers, with bobbed hair cuts and rolled stockings. The daring new roaring twenties bathing suits had finally pushed the the Edwardian styles aside.
00:57 Atlantic City Boardwalk 1927. A group of college friends have a girls day out during the height of the roaring twenties. A brief glimpse of the popular 1920s fad - beach pajamas.
01:10 Biarritz France in 1928. A 1920s street fashion show showcasing swimsuits and dress, followed by various scenes of the fashionable sunbathing on the Grande plage, and swimming in the famous Biarritz surf.
01:42 Arcadia beach in Odessa Ukraine in 1928. Colorized edit with sound from "Man with a Movie Camera" - filmed by Mikhail Kaufman. Several shots of Ukrainians and Russians relaxing on the beach. A woman applying lipstick.
Huge thanks to coder Bo Chang, who has helped me navigate his amazing deep machine learning machine.
Read his teams paper on deep exemplar based video colorization here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909
Original Silent Footage Credits
Palm Beach Society personalities
Filmed January 22 1920.
Fox News Story 8226
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/2886/rec/138
Seeing Canada. Across Canada by the CPR
Item number (ISN): 4418
Library and Archives Canada
c.1926.
Girls day out Home movies from Orbit films / Glamourdaze.
Biarritz scenes--outtakes. (Fox News Story B3450...B3455.)
Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/7797/rec/1
Early autumn brings crowds to Biarritz--outtakes.
(Fox News Story C7120...C7122.)
Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/7919/rec/4
Man with a Movie Camera 1928
Filmed by Mikhail Kaufman, directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by Elizaveta Svilova.
Watch: A Day At The Beach: More Amazing Roaring 20s Footage
https://youtu.be/4oCB-RkNNW4
Watch A Day at the Beach: Roaring 20s Footage Brought to Life
https://youtu.be/38y81OfeAWQ
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