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Step into a time machine: welcome to Amsterdam in 1922, in color and HD
- epicureanideal 7y agoHere's an idea for the next round of reworking these old videos, but it would be a LOT more work... orders of magnitude more work... Find people from the same region today, ideally descendants of people who were in the video, and deepfake their faces onto the video. Possibly go a step further and find period clothing, and deepfake the clothing in higher resolution onto the video. Or at least get samples of the materials and use that to deepfake improvements to the "resolution" of the video. Could do something similar with the audio.
- garmaine 7y agoIf you're going to that much effort, why not re-film it with the new people?
- garmaine 7y agoEveryone is wearing hats....
- jansan 7y agoHow did they delete all the fat prople?
- dang 7y agoPlease stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. You've done it repeatedly lately, and we eventually ban such accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- butz 7y agoAnd where is a button if you do not want to accept cookies?
- anyfoo 7y agoBe careful, these are not actual videos of the past. The original pictures and videos may have been limited in resolution (spatial, temporal, color), but they are an actual sample of the reality that was at that time. They may be missing things, but what's there was there. The "processed" videos are made up. By an algorithm with limited to no contextual clues, no less. The algorithm was trained to make things look real, it does not know about things making sense for the place and time. Some details, colors, movements may have been counterintuitive in reality, they may even have had a "fake" seeming look by today's standards. The algorithm does not know that. I am not discounting the value of those interpolations. The processed videos do give you a better idea of what life was like. By making it feel more "real", you can connect much better. It makes the past seem less abstract. They do still convey the fact that a train was there, or that people were wearing hats (as another commenter pointed out). But they are not historical documents. It is important to the documents as such, essentially as dramatizations of the past. Do not try to draw conclusions from individual elements of what you see, they may lead you to the wrong conclusions.