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Wow. Absolutely stunning. Thanks for sharing
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So I think in this case the motion interpolation can legitimately increase the verisimilitude of the footage. The pace and fluidity of the movement being more natural is not a bad thing for the showing off the times, though it is important that it be noted it’s a particularly poor reflection on the history of cinema and its cultural impact. The two thirds that are missing have the 1/18 of a second on either side there, so I think there’s a particularly low risk in introducing misleading information.
My bigger concerns are actually the upscaling (a bit) and the colorization (more). The former, I guess if you’re just sort of presenting this to create the impression of these people’s faces and to enhance the immersion in the era for a modern audience, it’s not that bad, but you’d want to be very clear what you were doing, and you certainly wouldn’t want to say something like, “See what your great-grandfather’s face really looked like?” For the colorization, I’d want to know what were the sources, techniques, and tools used. Those would befit from genuine historical research and could be actively misleading about what we’re seeing, providing a false certainty in a way that motion interpolation mostly doesn’t, and upscaling sort of doesn’t.
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What we are seeing is gaps filled in and made up by computers, a fiction to make us happy, no more truth than in the original.
Romantic, but lemme introduce you to smartphone photography!
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Most pictures are postprocessed automatically nowadays. Beauty filters, pixel binding, HDR…
Multiple layers and filters which distort ‘reality’.
And I think you are being romantic by trying to preserve a form of originality, while technology itself has never done anything else than alter our perception of the world.
As an example: There’s a good reason why many kids might have thought that grandpa’s reality looked black and white back then haha
How much something resembles reality in this case is subjective.
Some might even argue the AI footage looks closer to the truth than the original file.
The original scenes didn’t happen in black and white. I’d argue this is even more accurate to the original (real life).
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Bah humbug
Anyone know what the machine around 14:50 is? Looks like a walking car.
I think a form of compactor, like a steam roller. It’s using the weight of the vehicle over a small footprint to compress the dirt
What struck me most in this early footage is that everyone in it has definitely passed away by now. With later films you usually can’t be sure. Makes you realise even more that the available time we have on this planet is quite limited.
I prefer old videos and photographs looking the way they were.
Except that’s not how they were if you were to have been there.
I’m saying as the old photos were. Obviously people were in color back then.
