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It’s great. I also love video footage from that era as well, capturing the ordinary bustle of the streets. It’s fun when it’s local and you can point to familia

It’s great. I also love video footage from that era as well, capturing the ordinary bustle of the streets. It’s fun when it’s local and you can point to familiar places. One of my favourites is Victoria and Vancouver BC around 1900[0]. [0] https://youtu.be/Jp1qWV5OZec https://youtu.be/Jp1qWV5OZec

KMnO4 5y ago
Here’s one from 1895, upscaled to 4k60 and colourized: https://youtu.be/EqbOhqXHL7E https://youtu.be/EqbOhqXHL7E
- mlindner 5y ago
  These are horrible.
- wizzwizz4 5y ago
  The original seems to no longer be on YouTube; do you have a copy of a non-AI-hallucinated version?
- petilon 5y ago
  Much better ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_eZuOTBNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_eZuOTBNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk
  - mlindner 5y ago
    I really hate these types of videos that ruin a perfectly good video and fill it with AI-generated fake frames and colors. Colorization especially is not something that an AI can do well yet. It generally turns it into a rainbowy mess of constantly shifting colors. Also even the framerate is often wrong as these old movies didn't have consistent framerates. They were hand cranked so the framerate varied quite a bit.
WalterBright 5y ago
Would be fun to film the same route today, and show them side by side.
- thangalin 5y ago
  Here's a landmark: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.425502,-123.3676965,3a,21.3y,3.28h,90.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-1KkfrCjt_eDXLBILkpzPw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@48.425502,-123.3676965,3a,21.3y... https://youtu.be/Jp1qWV5OZec?t=94 https://youtu.be/Jp1qWV5OZec?t=94
- eloeffler 5y ago
  There's a side-by-side video of the Wuppertal "flying train" from 1902 and 2015 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc
  - pmg102 5y ago
    Every single tree lining that road in 1902 gone and not replaced by 2015.
    - eloeffler 5y ago
      By three cars each X-D But there is green lining added to the river at least. That river looked very sad in 1902.
cm2187 5y ago
In fact that's the only interesting photos from old albums (that and people you know). A 100,000th photo from the Eiffel tower will be the least interesting thing you will find (unless it happens to be a landmark that disappeared). But life in the street of Paris in the 60s is really interesting and amusing to contrast to today.
- eru 5y ago
  Similarly, the most interesting part of old magazines is often the ads.
mywacaday 5y ago
Given how quiet the roads and pavements are in the video and photos does anyone know why the streets were built so wide?
- martyvis 5y ago
  Delivery wagons might be drawn with a team of two or even four horses (or even bullocks). You'd want to be able to turn them around in such streets. Certainly that was the case for Australian country town main streets laid down in the 1800s
- zamber 5y ago
  > added in sound for ambiance The actual noise levels may have been higher. Regardless, I think the main reason is ventilation. With coal and wood heating streets were designed to act as valleys pushing air through. Also, I hard that old European cities were built with airflow in mind. Whole streets were uninterrupted with trees while some have them. Also I heard an opinion that Wrocław is one of the most polluted cities because it got a lot of new buildings that break the airflow on main streets.
- drran 5y ago
  No lanes, no rules, no turn signals, pedestrians are walking everywhere, every transport had it own speed and size, etc. And lots of goo on the road.
- erikprotagonist 5y ago
  During the 1800s there were four sets of building regulations (or rather, laws) for Christiania (the name of Oslo back then), which regulated everything from the width of the streets to how many floors buildings could be. In 1827 the minimum street width became 11.35m, then 12.60 in 1842, 15.75 in 1875 and 20m in 1899. (https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murbyen_(Oslo) https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murbyen_(Oslo) has a good overview). The background for the regulation was the switch from unregulated wood buildings to requiring mainly brick as building material - there were some major fires before using bricks became the law. I live just around the corner from one of the photos - the building in that photo hasn't changed much since back then.

KMnO4 5y ago

Here’s one from 1895, upscaled to 4k60 and colourized: https://youtu.be/EqbOhqXHL7E https://youtu.be/EqbOhqXHL7E

mlindner 5y ago
These are horrible.
wizzwizz4 5y ago
The original seems to no longer be on YouTube; do you have a copy of a non-AI-hallucinated version?
petilon 5y ago
Much better ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ1OgQL9_Cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_eZuOTBNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_eZuOTBNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk
- mlindner 5y ago
  I really hate these types of videos that ruin a perfectly good video and fill it with AI-generated fake frames and colors. Colorization especially is not something that an AI can do well yet. It generally turns it into a rainbowy mess of constantly shifting colors. Also even the framerate is often wrong as these old movies didn't have consistent framerates. They were hand cranked so the framerate varied quite a bit.

WalterBright 5y ago

Would be fun to film the same route today, and show them side by side.

thangalin 5y ago
Here's a landmark: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.425502,-123.3676965,3a,21.3y,3.28h,90.43t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-1KkfrCjt_eDXLBILkpzPw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@48.425502,-123.3676965,3a,21.3y... https://youtu.be/Jp1qWV5OZec?t=94 https://youtu.be/Jp1qWV5OZec?t=94
eloeffler 5y ago
There's a side-by-side video of the Wuppertal "flying train" from 1902 and 2015 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc
- pmg102 5y ago
  Every single tree lining that road in 1902 gone and not replaced by 2015.
  - eloeffler 5y ago
    By three cars each X-D But there is green lining added to the river at least. That river looked very sad in 1902.

cm2187 5y ago

In fact that's the only interesting photos from old albums (that and people you know). A 100,000th photo from the Eiffel tower will be the least interesting thing you will find (unless it happens to be a landmark that disappeared). But life in the street of Paris in the 60s is really interesting and amusing to contrast to today.

eru 5y ago
Similarly, the most interesting part of old magazines is often the ads.

mywacaday 5y ago

Given how quiet the roads and pavements are in the video and photos does anyone know why the streets were built so wide?

martyvis 5y ago
Delivery wagons might be drawn with a team of two or even four horses (or even bullocks). You'd want to be able to turn them around in such streets. Certainly that was the case for Australian country town main streets laid down in the 1800s
zamber 5y ago
> added in sound for ambiance The actual noise levels may have been higher. Regardless, I think the main reason is ventilation. With coal and wood heating streets were designed to act as valleys pushing air through. Also, I hard that old European cities were built with airflow in mind. Whole streets were uninterrupted with trees while some have them. Also I heard an opinion that Wrocław is one of the most polluted cities because it got a lot of new buildings that break the airflow on main streets.
drran 5y ago
No lanes, no rules, no turn signals, pedestrians are walking everywhere, every transport had it own speed and size, etc. And lots of goo on the road.
erikprotagonist 5y ago
During the 1800s there were four sets of building regulations (or rather, laws) for Christiania (the name of Oslo back then), which regulated everything from the width of the streets to how many floors buildings could be. In 1827 the minimum street width became 11.35m, then 12.60 in 1842, 15.75 in 1875 and 20m in 1899. (https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murbyen_(Oslo) https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murbyen_(Oslo) has a good overview). The background for the regulation was the switch from unregulated wood buildings to requiring mainly brick as building material - there were some major fires before using bricks became the law. I live just around the corner from one of the photos - the building in that photo hasn't changed much since back then.