Time travel back nearly 100 years to the west of Ireland. Silent footage colorized and upscaled to 4K 60fps resolution with added ambient sound. Filmed in Killarney, County Clare and on the wild Aran Islands.

A number of scenes filmed in the town of Killarney. Street scenes of women and a young girl singing Sail Óg Rua in Irish while feeding ducklings. Other shots around the village depict an era when the 19th century was meeting the 1920s, especially in the styles worn by women of that period in Ireland. A common scene around rural Ireland still, a group of men, possibly in the Kerry mountains hills cutting peat turf. The donkey and cart was a common mode of travel in the 19th century and many parts of rural Ireland still used them on the back roads in the 1920s.

Excerpt from our colorized and sound restored footage of two school girls singing an Irish language song about helping their mother bake a cake. It was filmed near St Brigid's well in the village of Liscannor, County Clare. May 28th 1929. Just north of Galway and the Aran islands.

An excerpt from the colorized and sound restored film of the remote Aran islands. By the 1920s, people still lived essentially 19th century lifestyles with 19th century clothing. The spoken language was Gaelic. The artist Sean Keating captured this era perfectly in his paintings.
Here we glimpse scenes on the beaches and boats of Inisheer island shot by Movietone in 1929. A group of islanders, men, women and children still living an ancient lifestyle.

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.
[ Ссылка ]

Support my channel while treating yourself to some magically restored downloadable vintage makeup and hairstyling books from the 1920s to the 1960s - direct to your device : [ Ссылка ]

The wonderful silent Movietone footage is provided with the kind permission of the Moving Image Research Collection at University of South Carolina.

Irish Scenes, 1929--outtakes
Cattle fair--outtakes. (Fox Movietone News Story 2-776.) Fox Movietone News Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.
[ Ссылка ]

Original BW footage - Irish School Children - outtakes.
University South Carolina.
Fox Movietone News Story 2-919
[ Ссылка ]

Watch the full colorized and sound restored film here:
[ Ссылка ]

Irish footage outtakes - Shipping Cattle by Boat
Fox Movietone News Story 2-920
[ Ссылка ]

See the full restored colorized film here:
[ Ссылка ]

I also recommend the books Old Ireland in Colour 1 & 2. A long running project created by John Breslin. They are an excellent resource for colorized photographs of old Ireland.

свернуть