【AI Colorized】Eye to eye with people from 1929 China, puppet street show, nearly 100 years ago

How does it feel to watch each other from nearly 100 years ago?
This time I restored and colorized a footage from 1929 by using AI technology.
It's a street outtake about a puppet show theatre in China back then.
With original sound and audio, it's indeed very precious.

Here are the AI projects I used during the restoration process:
+RIFE
+DeOldify
+Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization
+GFP-GAN
+Real-ESRGAN
+Topaz Video Enhance AI

Original footage source comes from Moving Image Research Collection (MIRC), The University of South Carolina.
Please support them if you like this video:
Fox News outtake 2-100 & 2-101 copyright University of South Carolina.

The restoration video is for educational purposes and personal research only. Hope you enjoy it!

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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - AI colorized footage
6:46 - Ending and tech explained

[JediSimpson]

I wonder if any of those kids are still alive. They’d be around 100 now, but it’s still possible.

[nuj]

Amazing work as always.

It's crazy to think those kids would be people of my grandpa's age.

[thebay]

You do such incredible work! Keep it coming! The little babies are possibly alive today! My grandmother is 101yrs old!

[kwchew]

剛看到您盡心还原恢复了中國百年以前的罕见視頻，誏更多海内外的中國人有了対自己先辈當年在中國生活的真实面貌，雖然这些视频都是西方人拍摄的视频, ! ！

[ericjoin]

As a Chinese ，i like see these repaired videos .because it let me know the past of my country，and shows the living of our ancestors.

[angeldrawsdoodles]

I absolutely love these colored videos you make, this is one of your best works yet. Keep it up 👍🏼

[glenchua]

Thank you Spitzer. It's such a moving moment for me to be able to see China 100 years ago. It's time travel. Amazing. More please !!!

[HugoBrown]

I really enjoy these video's brings to life the people and gives us more of idea who they are and what life was like, and I always look at the faces and wonder how they lived and was life good to them and what was there community like, thanks for restoring the video's it closest thing we have to going back in time

[laobinggun]

Don't know why, each time when i watch this kind of video, makes me fell like that time just makes life and everything meaningless .

[alonagold]

I love to see your works and the old videos! Please keep your amazing work!

[axnjack]

I appreciate your good work! If I may request that would restore or upscale some more modern films to make it look like todays quality, that would be nice too. 90’s and older.

[realist]

Iv always been fascinated by Chinese culture.

[thesavvyartist]

Very nice. Congrats on your good work! Btw, people those days did not have eye bags or did you erase them?

[qouavang]

Some of these kids are probably still alive today it's possible. My grandma was born around this time.... to think about it 18 years before they were still wearing the manchu pig tail.

[wendyqallab]

The children are pretty well behaved and very adorable.

[padhebas]

Amazing...
its more amazing if you put Subtitle, so we are other Chinese can understand what they said.

[lospuntosstudios]

In what sequence did you used the tools? Like it's written? And why different colorizer?

[acolyte]

the girl with the pink hat looked cute but also a bit uncomfortable like some others around her. Good to see some active boys too.

[mhyunsook]

never saw female adults except one so far including other videos