Victory In Europe 8th May 1945, AI Enhanced, Gateshead Street Scenes, Original Colour, Sound, HD

On May 8th, 1945, Churchill officially declared Victory in Europe. During the celebrations in Gateshead, an off-duty policeman captured Kodachrome film of the event. The footage shows flags and bunting strung between terraces, as well as jubilant women, children, and a few men gathered for street parties. After years of wartime blackouts, bombs, and ration cards, the celebrants wave defiant teapots. On Thanksgiving Day (14th May 1945), a grand civic and military procession through Saltwell Park is cheered on by crowds.
West Gateshead was captured in rare colour footage during VE Day celebrations down terraced streets, including Fleming Street and Askew Road, which have since been demolished.
The original film is in colour, it's been sharpened, details recovered, noise reduced and upscaled to 1080 HD.
✔ AI settings testing, optimised for the best upscale.
✔ Original film dissected for multi part AI processing.
✔ Stabilised.
✔ Scratches, blemishes and other damage removed.
✔ Image noise removed.
✔ Image details recovered.
✔ Digital/jpg artefacts removed.
✔ Film sharpened.
✔ Upscaled to HD.
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[@bjh7924]

Wow. Look how young the forces are. Imagine what they've gone through 🙃 Great vid ❤

[@thereunionparty]

Wonderful scenes at the street parties.
The different services marching in the park reminds me of that episode in Dad's Army where there is a similar parade (Home guard, ARP, nurses etc) and they're all trying to get to the front.

[@samuel96100]

Excellent thank you ! I'm born and bred in Gateshead

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Glad to see you enjoyed it. Thanks :)

[@jameslamb4573]

I guess AI can't fill in every detail. Shame you can't read all the names on the buildings etc. It's somewhat compensated for by the columns of marchers, in the background they look like zombies only to have their features defined as the approach the camera. Not surprised Germany, Austria (and Italy) couldn't prevail against that crew.
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[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

The AI can only work with the data that's available and enhance detail based on that. The settings can also have a huge impact. In some scenes pulling out good foreground detail doesn't always work well for background detail. As the foreground is were the focus is that has to take priority. The names on the buildings can possibly be made legible with different settings. The faces become more recogisable as faces as they approach the camera and in turn provide more data to work with.

[@jameslamb4573]

@@livinghistoryaienhanced Pretty much what I thought was happening. Just amused me to see "faceless" people wandering around.

[@mattjreid]

How many of the people in street party lost an uncle, brother, or husband in the war?

[@mytripUK]

Fantastic dokument and it was victory good time, now nobody not remeber this euforic :) Good Job

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

Thanks! :D

[@welshlad6427]

Wow 🇬🇧❤

[@damright]

ai makes some faces strange at the back of the frame.. quite unsettling considering the war time

[@websterforrest]

The AI has given everyone such horrific faces.

[@livinghistoryaienhanced]

I pushed it right to the edge for this film, for most films. Face enhancement has since been introduced and version 3 is imminent so things have improved hugely in that area, and others over the last few months.

[@cs0rpc]

What was the source of this footage?