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Artificial Intelligence Makes this 1896 Video Look Like it's Been Filmed With a Smartphone


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What am i missing here. I just do not get it. I have to add that it does not seem like 1896 but something done just recently........... is that it ? confuse



-- Edited by long stroke on Tuesday 4th of February 2020 09:12:11 PM

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I can only imagine the things that are coming Todd. Think of all the old footage out there that can be re-processed.



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What am i missing here. I just do not get it. I have to add that it does not seem like 1896 but something done just recently........... is that it ? confuse



-- Edited by long stroke on Tuesday 4th of February 2020 09:12:11 PM


 need to look at this original film with the flaws,clarity and film speed of those days...then compare to how it's been "repaired"



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Wow, thats incredible! One can only imagine how that technology will continue to develop. (pardon the pun - not intended...)

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That's it George. They took an original grainy film and enhanced it.

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It's amazing what can be done to old film, even with a retail video editor. Recently I had old 16mm home videos converted to DVD and after hours of enhancing the footage using an Adobe Elements program, the results were incredibly improved. Even better with old slides and using Photoshop.



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I must say they look quite dapper in their Victorian-era dress.

Some of those folks look like they were present when the last spike was driven into the tie beam to complete the national railroad.

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Amazing! My grandfather who died in the 1980's in his 90th year hadn't been born when that movie was taken (soon though).



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I like the story on the "kid" in that picture,

The Craigellachie Kid

The famous photographs of the Last Spike ceremony depict such historic figures as CPR director Donald Smith (driving the spike), CPR general manager William Van Horne (behind Smiths right shoulder) and Sandford Fleming (with white beard and wearing a top hat). Standing directly behind Smith is a young man named Edward Mallandaine, who is sometimes referred to as the Craigellachie Kid. Mallandaine was 18 years old when the photo was taken. He had just arrived at Craigellachie the night before and pushed his way to the front of the crowd during the ceremony, appearing at the centre of the iconic photographs.

 

Before the Last Spike ceremony, Mallandaine had quit school in Victoria, BC, to join Canadian forces fighting to put down the North-West Rebellion. Arriving too late to join the conflict, he headed back west, where he started his own business in the summer of 1885, delivering newspapers and supplies by pony between Eagle Pass and Farwell, BC.

 

A few years after the Last Spike was driven, Mallandaine helped establish the town of Creston, BC, on Kootenay Lake.



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