1920s Berlin | Rare Film Restored to Life in 4K Color with Sound

Dawn till dusk in roaring 1920s Weimar Berlin. Silent film colorized and enhanced to 4K resolution with added sound. A glimpse of Germany before the rise of Nazism and the destruction of old Berlin. From the first light of morning to the glittering nightlife that made Berlin famous across Europe, this is everyday life in the Weimar Republic at its height – its streets busy, its fashions modern, its people entirely unaware of what was coming. A great city at the peak of its confidence. This film draws on rare and little-seen footage including scenes from Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), March of Time footage from 1927 and Menschen am Sonntag. Colorized, upscaled to 4K, and given an original sound design by Glamourdaze. The Berlin you see here cosmopolitan, stylish, and alive was largely destroyed within two decades. These images are among the few records of it that survive. How Silent Footage is Colorized and Brought to Life I take early fragments of silent 16fps film 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 film is upscaled and the frames interpolated to a higher frame rate - in this case 120 frames per second. Finally I produce a soundtrack which helps build a new immersive experience for the viewer. Together, these processes revive lost footage, offering audiences a more vivid and engaging glimpse of lives long since lived. The colorization process used Deep Exemplar-Based Video Colorization. https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909 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: https://vintagemakeupguide.com/