THE VIDEO SHELF · restored historical footage
[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
Neural-network upscaled, 60 fps, stabilized and colorized version of 1902 footage of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspended railway in Germany. The source film comes from MoMA. It gives a vivid view of an early-1900s city and a train system that still runs.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters share it as a favorite example of upscaled vintage footage that makes the early 1900s feel present, though some find the colorization off.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Denis Shiryaev
- Topic
- restored historical footage
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I'm not a film expert, but I like to think I have taste? And yet, somehow the recent Beatles projects reduced me to tears on several occasions. Am I secretly a chud in denial, or are my tastes just offensive? Look, everyone has the right …
peteforde on Hacker News · 2023-12
In They want you to forget what a film looks likeI've really come to enjoy these sorts of upscaled videos that allow a view of various cities in the early 1900's. New York: [LINK] San Francisco: [LINK] Paris: [LINK] Wuppertal, Germany: [VIDEO]
GeekyBear on Hacker News · 2021-10
In The Hindenburg disaster denoised, upscaled, and colorized using ML [video]
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