A Day in London c.1945 | AI Enhanced Color & Sound Film [ 60 fps]
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2021
- Time travel back to London's Piccadilly Circus in 1945 at the tail of WW2. We see so many young men and women in American and British uniforms.
The film has been color enhanced using AI deep learning techniques and we added a soundtrack for a more immersive experience.
Piccadilly circus is a famous road junction and public space in London's West End. Known for its large illuminated signs and video displays mounted on the corner building on the northern side.
The term "circus" means 'circle' or roundabout. Built to link Piccadilly to Regent street. It also connects to Shaftsbury Avenue, Haymarket, and Coventry street which leads on to Leicester Square.
Piccadilly Road is home to Fortnum & Mason among others. Piccadilly has inspired several works of fiction, including Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the books of P. G. Wodehouse.
The street had been named for Piccadilly Hall, where a tailor named Robert Baker had prospered selling the fashionable broad lace 'piccadill' collars popular in the 17th century.
In its heyday, the main attraction at the circus junction was the Trocadero, which housed the London Pavillion, now long gone. You can see the entrance to the theater just around the corner. The camera is filming at No1 Piccadilly, just on the corner. Back then it appeared to house a tobacconist called L Hill & Co.
The iconic statue of "Eros" in the middle of the junction was removed for safety during the war, but you can see its base in the background, which was boarded up.
In the classic 1981 horror movie An American Werewolf in London, Piccadilly Circus forms the pivotal location for the movie's unforgettable finale.
Original silent 35mm footage held by the Internet Archive in the 35mm Stock Footage collection.
Uploaded by AV Geeks.
archive.org/details/35mmstock...
Used under the CC BY 2.0 license.
creativecommons.org/licenses/...
This was the AI enhancement process:
1. Removed artifacts and noise.
2. Interpolated new frames ( from 24 to 60fps) using the DainApp, to add depth awareness
3. Upscaled the original 480p film to 4K resolution using Topaz Video Enhance AI and Vidcoder.
4. Created ambient soundtrack
Keep your comments respectful. Hateful speech will be deleted and users banned 
Хобби
![Extremely rare, spectacular film about London during WW-II in color [A.I. enhanced & colorized]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QLbPYQcUcgM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Extremely rare, spectacular film about London during WW-II in color [A.I. enhanced & colorized]](/img/tr.png)
![Women's Street Style in 1938 | AI Enhanced Film [ 4k 60 fps]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TKVLqi727Vg/mqdefault.jpg)
I love the way men and women dressed and carried themselves back in these days. 👠💼
Seriously no one slouches. Everyone's so graceful and stylish.
@@beeticket You Bet!😉💖
The click-clack sound of high heels are gone, thanks to machine made rubber sneakers.
Wow!!!❤️💕❤️♥️❤️💕♥️❤️💕♥️❤️My grandfather was 19 years old And fighting in the war amazing and now he’s 96 so trippy
I get sad when I hear "That's all" because I get yanked back to modern day.
Me too! It's so mesmerizing to watch, and listen to the sounds, it definitely sucks you in. :)
Yeah, but I would rather live here than there any day.
@@grammaticalchainsaw7318I agree. interpersonal violence was widespread but not discussed; beating children was accepted, domestic abuse was "normal", child abuse was routinely disbelieved, fights were a normal part of pub going life. In the current era, we have recognised that all of these - and more - went on . Violence in the past was ignored, minimised and simply not talked about - it was, however, very much a fact of life
@@sudgur990 Same as how it's largely ignored in the Rainbow Reich community and Google oftentimes hide the studies and results? Same thing; different era.
@@sudgur990 violence is still a thing and we are going backwards if anything.
It always feels like time travelling, seeing this old clips in such a good quality and coloring. Thank you 🥰
I love it when you put an audio on a video like this, it adds so much authenticity ! It feels like we are immersed in the past !
How wonderfully stylish and elegant they all are!😊
Very few overweight people. Rationing didn’t end in Britain until 1954.
Helps that everyone back then had tailors on hand at clothes stores - nowadays no such service is given when buying clothes usually unless in very fancy stores
@@Bandomeme you can say that again.
I watched the video again. I didn’t see one single woman who’d qualify as fat, and only one elderly gentleman.
Whoever came up with those rations really should have been knighted.
@@jeremynv89523 that’s enough to get you skelped by those who had to live with them! Food rations were minimal and meat was so scarce that British biologists ate their laboratory rats. Clothing and furniture was rationed too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom
@@romainvicta3076 Are you crazy? Clothing was rationed in 1945 and for much of the war. Brand new clothes and the sort of clothing stores you’re thinking of were out of the question for all but the very rich, and they always have a better time than the ordinary people you see in the video. Even the Queen (Princess Elizabeth as she was then) had to save up her clothing coupons to buy her wedding dress, though the government gave her 200 for a wedding present. Most of the women in the video are probably wearing second-hand clothes that they will have refitted themselves.
At 0.40 the stones that jut out of the wall are still visible today 75 years later. That's the Trocadero building. Underneath the Pavilion sign is one of the entrances to Piccadilly underground station. To the left of that, the Tepee like structure is the Eros statue. It's probably been removed or under cover to prevent damage in wartime. Behind that is the building that used to be home to tower records. 1 Piccadilly circus. It closed in 2009. I don't think it's currently occupied. And the street that is in the background where the buses are coming from is Regents Street. All of this is viewable today in Google Maps. It's a wonder why the camera man didn't take shots of the Giant billboard in Piccadilly Circus. It's arguably one of the most famous things about it. Today it's been replaced like most billboards with a giant electronic one.
If your're fascinated by how it looked then, grab hold of the horror movie "An American werewolf in London". Not only is it a fantastic movie, but it shows the area in the finale in the early 1980's It's funny that no matter how things change, somethings remain the same. One day 75 years from now maybe people will be looking at videos of you walking down the street wondering how you were and how you lived.
The hoarding is covering the base of the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, the winged statue of Anteros on top was removed at the outbreak of WW2 and taken to Cooper's Hill in Egham, where it remained until 1948.
That was an interesting Novel
To bad it's all Muslims now
Very nice, thank you.
They all look so wonderfully dressed. 🥺💞
Back then it looked so clean and the people looked highly elegant.
In addition it looks so contemporary with color.
Pretty surreal to see such a lively scene while majority of cities in central Europe is in ruins around this time.
Plenty of lively scenes in Central Europe cities then too. This film didn’t show you the entire blocks of buildings bombed to smithereens just two minutes’ walk away. The whole emphasis at the time was “carry on as usual”. I was a child in London in the 1950s and the bomb site at the end of the road was a great adventure playground for us - until we found a live bomb among the rubble. That site wasn’t cleared and redeveloped until the 1960s.
@@Bandomeme Sweet, thanks for the insight how life was back in your days, that sounds like a very memorable childhood. It's pretty difficult to get an overall picture of the past just by simply watching various of footages. We've had a fair share of WW2 ruins, bunkers and even shipwrecks too where I grew up in a small fishing town in Penang around the mid-90s, they are a great source of adventure albeit the dangers we couldn't foresee then. Thankfully the erosion (and the 2004 tsunami) swept most of them away. Only the half-buried bunkers by the beaches remained till this day.
@@Messerchmitt11B it’s worth writing your childhood memories down (your children and grandchildren will thank you for it) and you’re never too young to start. After several decades pass you’re never quite sure whether something actually happened to you or whether it happened to someone else! Luckily I still have 5-year diary given to me as a teenager. A lot of the stuff in there is highly embarrassing (I wouldn’t be a teen again if you paid me millions) but it sure brings back the memories.
@@Bandomeme really? A live bomb? Goodness..
@@grammaticalchainsaw7318 they still pop up from time to time.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-56243750
Amazing! It makes you wonder what happened to everything? I mean there’s a whole world there, people, clothes, cars, where has everything gone? A whole way of life, which seems so much calmer, and happier than today’s world. Yet they had nothing compared to what we have.
Even more amazing when you realize this was right before the war ended and people still carried on like this.
@@Lexster918 I always admired the way english people resist cause here we don't see the dammages bombings all around.
I would argue it's not too different to London today, still those buses, roads and buildings haven't changed much
TV and the media after the war was when people became less happy, as before TV you just lived your life, maybe met a partner not too far from home, had children, and just got on with living as a happy family.
TV, teen magazines, radio and of course later the internet came along and made people think their lives were rubbish.
Even though I'm from the other side of the world and born decades after this, it feels like I've somehow stepped through the screen and am occupying the same space as these people. Crazy...?
Not at all. Many of us prob feel that way. So cool-the past.
Amazing footage. Almost looks like it was filmed last week using extras in period dress!
yes, it does... looks amazing
The 40s: my favorite era! I'm always so grateful to see you post new videos. But I especially love seeing everything from the 40s - the clothes, the hairdos, the vehicles, the architecture. I love it! ♥️👍🏼
Ditto Shannon, I’m sure it wasn’t perfect but there’s something attractive about it ,there’s another video with people at the dance hall ,singing as they dancing ,just something I can’t my finger on but maybe it was a time ,in a place and in an era that brought people together ,
WW2 era, really? :(
It is my favorite era too! Besides the amazing fashion, somehow the architecture evokes nostalgic and melancholic feelings in me. Probably because some of that is actually still around today and I was always fascinated with old buildings. I feel like they have a soul unlike super-modern geometrical buildings 😅.
I'm not sure why but it's comforting to see this clips and the People. Then I see what is now and Yuck. Thank you for a couple of peaceful minutes.
I gotta get me one of those King Six Cigars! I hear they're "best"!
In 20 or thirty years when vr is more advanced, you’ll be able to step into scenes like this.
Just like a holodeck
@@oberon79 If you could be plugged into a virtual world that would be perfect for you and you didn't know it wasn't real, I think I would do it
That’s going to be so amazing! You can dress up and larp that you’re there 🥰
That would be something 😮❤️
Incredible quality of the pictures! Well done! Congratulations!
I just "landed" on your channel. And wow! I am amazed. I obviously subscribed immediately. I am sorry for the present times. And finding myself in the past is just magic. Very good research and restoration work. Thank you
I am addicted to videos like this. Great channel.
A elegância das pessoas dessa época era algo admirável. Lindo registro! 👏
Amazing history restoration thank you!
These videos are amazing!
Just to illustrate how much times have changed, an old woman I talked to a few years ago recalled how one Sunday in 1947 she drove her car all the way from Brighton to London and back again… and didn’t encounter a single other vehicle on the road on either journey. Utterly unthinkable today.
This is soooo fascinating to me!
Wow.... Incredible, almost like time travel...
I LOVE the buses
Lovely channel
How handsome the soldiers are in their uniforms! I wish these videos were a lot longer, but we're already so fortunate to have these treasures
So many American soldiers!
@@davis7099 True, but this was 1945, although if it was just after the war in Europe they may not have been sent home yet.
I was wondering exactly the same thing, so many Americans
Whole American "villages" sprung up across the British Isles from what I've read and heard. The airmen, GIs and WACs literally had specially built facilities on many of their bases. One elderly Brit in an interview I saw talked about how they literally threw up a whole airfield and barracks in just a few weeks or less. Goodbye field...hello runway!
1:06 Bike dude not paying attention and almost hits the two girls.
Some things don't change.
I LOVE this! 🤗
Loved this thank you ❤️🇬🇧
Elegant and classy people so nice to see !! ❤
Wonderful
I see in the description a summary of how you do this. Would it be possible to make a video with a demonstration? Eg, I don't really understand how you do step 1 at all. I would love to do this with some local footage!!!!! Please, please 🙏
Love it.
Eighty years or more from now, people will be on similar apps to this and watching us, while thinking look how alive they all were but all dead now.
Wow 🤩 it’s like a time machine
Britain took many years to recover after ww2. There was rationing in the '50s because there wasn't enough.
I've heard it was in part due to the Korean War. Britain was still rebuilding after World War II, but when PM Atlee saw America was willing to take action to defend South Korea from the Communist invasion, he signed British armed forces up for the UN force under MacArthur. It was considered controversial, and what angered many Brits is that he changed ration rules and medical prices to pay for the new war effort. The Malaya Emergency was also ongoing at that time.
I watched this because my USA dad was in England a bit, during WWll, and talked about driving at night there with no lights during the blackouts.
They all look so nice.
Cool
Holy smoke, some of those soldiers were incredibly handsome. Well, there you go. That's how London looked when it was populated by English people. Elegant, peaceful, stylish and not the least bit scary.
A fun challenge with these type of WWII videos is to look at their insignia and spot the Americans stationed in Britain amongst all the British soldiers. One old video from British Pathe even showed an Asian-American US Army soldier! VERY rare for that era.
Elegant
No one is slouching.
Because no cell phones
As the kids of this generation, we would a get clip in the ear if we were caught slouching at home or school. :-)
So cool to see everyone "dressed up" in proper clothes, though I guess that was just everyday dress for them. Just seems dressy compared to today's casual fashion. Cool to see the men and women in uniform too. :)
If those very same folks were to have the misfortune of catching sight of how people dress today, they'd be astonished if not shocked. Propriety, respectability, and decency were hallmarks of public dressing. Not self absorbed efforts at expressing the "inner you," or ridiculous sartorial displays which scream; LOOK AT ME IM AN INDIVIDUAL!!!!
So nicely dressed and concerning all class levels. People took pride in h ow they presented themselves in public in those days and that's concerning Europe and the United States of America.
Wow!!!!!
At 0:37 you can see part of a film poster (under the Chemist sign) for the film showing at the London Pavilion. It you got a clearer view then you can date the film by consulting The Times Cinema listings
How smartly dressed everyone is
LOVE IT!! NO VULGARITY,PURSE SNATCHING and theu have COMMON COURTESY
The guy sweeping the path who then thought the road needed doing too, nearly got hit by the oncoming bus!!
When people actually cared how they looked before they left their homes. I remember being here when I visited the UK a couple of years ago
I went to a shop yesterday and there were two women in there with night-wear on
@@jnielsen1956 it was Lidl lol I’m from England you guys have the same problem in America huh
R all of these videos actual footage from back then?
The good old days
Time travel is possible practical application
This video was made on my bday
No pajamas! No slouchy dress! Wow!
even with rationing and dreadful shortages, how well dressed and dignified people are. now, slobs and depressing looking psychotic monsters
Guy: Excuse me... ma'am gotta catch Uber!
Classy period
Elegant because they walked straight with no problem
It looks almost like videotape quality.
You can almost smell the diesel fuel and pipe smoke.
0:50 - Street sweeper nearly gets squished.
👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
👍
No chance of walking that quickly around Piccadilly circus nowadays.
No overweight people in those days!!
It’s not just the people but the sounds of the street that are no longer with us, certainly near a harbour with steam flutes and horns. No car horn today sound that polite anymore. Whoop-whoop……..
Amazing how many looked slim ,mind you a lot of smoking ,must have been wartime diet and walking here ,there and everywhere ,people however don’t look malnourished ,maybe lessonfor today.
They'd had years of food rationing. They ate lots of vegetables grown in "Victory Gardens".
Pedestrians looked relaxed probably because war was over, and it was their victory. During the equivalent period, pedestrians
in Tokyo were devastated.
Wow things lost did not even know it
I wish I had a time machine🇫🇷
l want style back 😭
Not only is everyone a normal weight, their everyday dress is fancier than what we wear to weddings and funerals.
I noticed that too. Remember, they'd gone through years of food rationing.
Simple. No additives and processed fake foods with endocrine disruptors and growth hormones. People ate real food at regular mealtimes and didn't spend all day in front of a screen snacking.
@@bluebutterflywellness2273 👍
It might be fancier than you wear!
@@valerier4308 didn’t end in Britain until 1954.
Ahora no hay quien lo conozca....da miedo a perdido el encanto Londres
Why did you have to add fake sound.?
By 1929 they had sound in films could the original sound not be up scaled?
My grandmother: *born in 1945*
Meanwhile in London:
They all look so stiff and proper…. Military type dress. Muted colours.
Greetings from Russia:) well done
Thank you! Cheers!
Not a burqa in sight.
…and not a damned cellphone in sight! Thank God!
My god, what a depressing time to be alive that must have been
Londoners had pluck, and were indomitable and resolute. Qualities which helped them cope with the Blitz, rationing, and other hardships brought on by the war. Unfortunately so many of the characteristics which made London great have disappeared with those red telephone booths. Being a global city has its drawbacks.
No litter.
A shop just for cigars lol.
This made me ditch the trashy Fashionova clothes I have
Ooh those handsome men in those uniforms ooooo so lucky the ladies they were back in those days
after 76 years, a pedestrian in the video is fine for not following the road signs to cross the road. Thanks to CCTV set in 1945
I sure don’t miss all the smoking.
All those slim people.
Is that a man in women's clothing around 1:20 mark?
Yes, I noticed that too. I was hoping someone would mention this. I would love to know the story there.
Lots of women in uniform ! 🐶
No one has their face buried in a cell phone lol
No bald men in shorts with beer bellies
When London wasn't Londonistan.
there is no such place called Londonistan.
When London was, well......English!
@@luissantiago8446 still is officially
Not one overweight person.
London City on 1945 is looking much advanced than India's modern city.
Lots of American uniforms….if it wasn’t for the old London buses I’d swear this was Chicago