Storm At Sea c.1899: Film Restored to Life, Color and Sound

Time travel back to 1899 to witness a storm at sea. Early Edison silent footage now restored to life and color in 4K 60fps with added sound.

While our photographers were crossing the Atlantic Ocean a most wonderful and sensational picture was secured, showing a storm at sea. The picture was secured by lashing the camera to the after bridge of the Kaiserine Maria Theresa, of the North German Lloyd Line, during one of its roughest voyages. The most wonderful storm picture ever photographed. Taken at great risk. 100 feet waves

How silent footage is colorized and brought to Life:

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.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909

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Original footage source: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Abadie, Alfred C. , Camera, Inc Thomas A. Edison, Paper Print Collection, and Niver. A Storm at Sea. produceds by White, James H. Uction United States: Edison Manufacturing Co, 1900. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/00694309/.