I'll be the first to admit that I can write stuff that's serious and intense at times. Therefore, on Fridays I'll be featuring something more lighthearted, fun or creative, so we can all end the week on a high note. Have a great weekend!
It's incredible to think that film is just over 100 years old. It means that going forward, we will have movie documentation of what life was like from the early 1900s and on. Imagine how much more we'd know about the world if we could see ancient Sumerians going about their life, hear them speak and communicate with one another.
Future humans might look at 1990s Hollywood films and mistake them for real-life accounts of the humans of that period and they'd be forgiven to think that Schwarzenegger was the epitome of the average joe.
Jokes aside, I think it will radically change the way historians look at the past and hopefully provide a much more accurate historical picture of us in 2000 years than the one we have of ancient greeks.
The video below is a restored version of 1930's footage of NYC's waterfront, stabilized, enhanced and colourized by way of AI-based modern video editing tools. It makes 1930s New York so much more real, all of which helped by the carefully chosen soundtrack. Images can truly be powerful.
And if you want to nerd out about the specific techniques employed, you can watch this other video that explains the process.