Jan 312021
 

Welllllll… sorta. Insofar as to take old film and photos and enhance them, making them seem almost contemporary.

This one turns old black and white photos into full color moving images. There are a bunch of “tells” that the final products aren’t really videos shot of the subjects; the process is far from perfect. But at first glance one or two might pass.

This one upscaled a 1939 film apparently shot at the New York World’s Fair of a bunch of people – mostly women – dancing (the “Lindy Hop,” it seems). Kinda surprising to see a racially mixed crowd like this, something that doesn’t really square with what we’re usually told.

I could see a market for this sort of thing for older folks, turning old photos of long dead loved ones into moving portraits.

 Posted by at 9:53 pm