A Short Train Ride : Early Film Restored to Amazing life
Time travel back to turn of the century America for a short romantic train journey with a young couple. Silent black and white footage restored to life in 4K 60fps with added sound.
Filmed circa 1899 -1903, along the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad line in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The line connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and by ferry with New York City.
Held by the Library of Congress, the original footage is a rare find of unusual quality. Fashion fans get to see the epitome of the American Gibson girl style. Shapely white dress, hair tied up in a pompadour under a picture hat.
According to Edison film historian Charles Musser, this film parodies an advertising campaign developed by the Lackawanna Railroad to counter its reputation as the “Road of Anthracite“ coal carrier. The campaign featured passenger “Phoebe Snow“, dressed in white, who rode the rails and praised the line’s cleanliness with such slogans as: “Says Phoebe Snow, about to go upon a trip to Buffalo: ’My gown stays white from morn till night upon the Road of Anthracite.“
The AI Film Restoration Process:
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 used Deep exemplar-based Video colorization.
Porter, Edwin S., Camera, Marie Murray, Inc Thomas A. Edison, and Paper Print Collection. A Romance of the Rail. United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1901. Video.
Camera: Edwin S. Porter.
Actors: Marie Murray
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