College Girls Winter Sleigh Ride in 1906 | AI Enhanced Film w/sound

A manic sleigh ride with a bunch of college girls through the winter snows of Gloversville NY. in 1906. AI colorized with sound transformation of a 1900s era film

Now with sound, 60 fps motion interpolation and AI upscaling to 4k.

You can join in the fun of these young women as they laugh and shriek their merry way through a winter sleigh ride and snow ball fight. It was a joy to restore this.

Original Title

A Winter Straw Ride
(1906) American
B&W : 500 feet
Directed by Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon
Edison Manufacturing Company
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

An original transfer of this film is available on a DVD called A Christmas Past. A collection of several very early Edison films from the public domain, including the first film adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Created by Kino video, and assembled from the Paul Killiam collection.

The AI Restoration

1. Cleaned noise artifacts and stabilized film.
2. Increased motion interpolation - from 15 fps to 60 fps with DainApp.
3. Upscaled from 240p to 4k resolution
4. Colorized with Deoldify
5. Created new ambient soundtrack
6. Added music soundtrack

Open source software included Google Colab notebooks for Deoldify and Dain.
Deep learning AI networks without which this work could not have been completed.
Sound effects provided by contributors to Freesound.org under a creative commons license.

Particular thanks to Girl with Sound Recorder for the Sleigh ride
https://freesound.org/people/GirlWith...
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

This short AI enhanced film is published here for preservation purposes and to add an immersive experience to the work of early filmmakers.
It is free to view and not commercially available on DVD or for republishing elsewhere.
Published here under the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video as outlined by the Center for Media & Social Impact.
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