A Day at the Beach: Roaring 20s Footage Restored to Life

Time travel back to the roaring 20s for a beach vacation at seaside resorts around the world. 1920s fashion and flapper culture brought to life. AI Colorized w/ added sound and remastered 4k 60fps
See the glamorous era of the roaring 20s, the vintage fashions and styles, brought to life in beautiful colour and sound.
Glamourdaze used machine learning AI to enhance these films, adding color and creating sound ambience to bring them to life. We upscaled the resolution to 4k 60fps, so you can truly immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the past. You'll feel like you're really there with the people as they enjoy their day at the beach.
So join us as we step back a century in time to the world of 1920s flappers, their wild fashion, bobbed hairstyles and forgotten vintage stories. Now brought back to life by the magic of AI.
Chapters:
00:00 Palm Beach Florida in Florida in 1920. A group of high society friends relax by the seaside in the January sunshine. The early 1920’s styles represents the high fashion worn by wealthier people in 1920. From the hats and turbans to the beach parasols and pretty summer dresses.
Watch the full film: Palm Beach Scenes c.1920
• Palm Beach Scenes - c....
00:18 Hook of Holland beach in Europe 1921. Working class Dutch people arrive by train to this popular seaside resort. Note the mobile beach huts for women to change in to their bathing suits. The two girls rinsing the sand from their feet is particularly charming.
00:38 English Bay Vancouver in Canada in 1926. Real 1920s flappers, with bobbed hair cuts and rolled stockings. The daring new roaring twenties bathing suits had finally pushed the the Edwardian styles aside.
00:57 Atlantic City Boardwalk 1927. A group of college friends have a girls day out during the height of the roaring twenties. A brief glimpse of the popular 1920s fad - beach pajamas.
01:10 Biarritz France in 1928. A 1920s street fashion show showcasing swimsuits and dress, followed by various scenes of the fashionable sunbathing on the Grande plage, and swimming in the famous Biarritz surf.
01:42 Arcadia beach in Odessa Ukraine in 1928. Colorized edit with sound from "Man with a Movie Camera" - filmed by Mikhail Kaufman. Several shots of Ukrainians and Russians relaxing on the beach. A woman applying lipstick.
Watch: A Day at the Beach 1928 - Odessa in the 1920s
• Video
Huge thanks to coder Bo Chang, who has helped me navigate his amazing deep machine learning machine.
Read his teams paper on deep exemplar based video colorization here:
arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909
Original Silent Footage Credits
Palm Beach Society personalities
Filmed January 22 1920.
Fox News Story 8226
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/co...
Seeing Canada. Across Canada by the CPR
Item number (ISN): 4418
Library and Archives Canada
c.1926.
Girls day out Home movies from Orbit films / Glamourdaze.
Biarritz scenes--outtakes. (Fox News Story B3450...B3455.)
Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/co...
Early autumn brings crowds to Biarritz--outtakes.
(Fox News Story C7120...C7122.)
Fox Movietone News Collection.
Moving Image Research Collections.
University of South Carolina.
digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/co...
Man with a Movie Camera 1928
Filmed by Mikhail Kaufman, directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by Elizaveta Svilova.
Watch: A Day At The Beach: More Amazing Roaring 20s Footage
• More Amazing Roaring 2...

[@REChronic54]

It’s weird because this restoration somehow makes the time period feel closer. Sometimes when things are so old you expect people to behave differently but no, everyone behaves pretty much like we do. It’s such surreal feeling.

[@MyNameJeff..]

Yes, exactly!!

[@ChloeLux]

Well it’s only 100 years ago not 500 🤣

[@REChronic54]

@@ChloeLux yeah but I still think that certain behaviors are timeless and we don’t realize it. Like I’m pretty sure people were making dick jokes way back when.

[@pgc6290]

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[@pgc6290]

@@ChloeLux yes but we dont think that way. We always think of past times as very old times, atleast when we are young coz we havent first hand witnessed times going in very past ie quite lot years back - atleast according to 'human life span and new generations coming up', that isnt past for you at all, but is just normal time and the times arent that different (hence too) tbh.

[@ethanol1586]

Even when they're just going to the beach, they still dressed up so nice. There was so much class and elegance back then

[@Kanibulus]

And germs

[@LeesaDeAndrea]

Seems odd though to see then laying in the sand fully dressed as if they just came from going to church though.

[@Daniel-rz4es]

They look like idiots.

[@atlantic_love]

@@Daniel-rz4es How so? Back then people were much more pressured to look their best, and valued modesty. They went places and tried their best to look nice no matter where they were. They wanted to be seen. It's part of being social. Nowadays people just want to be seen later on via social media.

[@luvthesun100]

@@atlantic_love So true👍🏻

[@boopdoop2251]

It’s so comforting seeing people laugh the same way, play the same, even have the same sort of speech patterns when they’re just joking around with their friends. People have always been people.

[@TheAncientColossus]

It hasn't really been that long when you think about it. It's not even 100 years old. It's just a blip.

[@josephinetracy1485]

The only thing is that those places are african now

[@yunapalmer5554]

I don't think the audio we hear is the original, the camera wasn't linked to a microphone back then, it has been added recently for the restoration.

[@shaynejenkins446]

Audio didn't exist then.@@yunapalmer5554

[@TheAncientColossus]

Linguistically, 100 years is literally a baby experiencing 30 seconds of breathing air.

[@fortnite_clips1064]

R.I.P all these people🙏🕊😢

[@user-mq6fu6ou4f]

Gone too soon. 😥

[@zoeykeith]

Probably not all of them

[@CR7GOATofFootball]

​@@zoeykeith probs all

[@ItzSneakyMinecraft]

@@CR7GOATofFootball some of the young kids on the video may be around

[@CR7GOATofFootball]

@ItzSneakyMinecraft A new born baby born in 1929 would be 95. Very unlikely.

[@sierraco7315]

I could sit and watch hours of such footage, the closest thing to time travel.

[@dennisgarber]

Color brings out a 3 dimensional feeling that black and white lacks. It is also logical that our brains connect color with life and vitality. Of course, there is a place and appropriate time to cuddle up, late at night and watch old, unrestored, authentic black and white movies, which can add a little challenge, mystery, and desired emotion to the experience--as advocated by my old English teacher of 4 decades ago.

[@SatanicPizza-fo2ei]

​​@@dennisgarber hmmm. Black and white did not strike me as such, it struck me just like this footage does

[@keithgraham4747]

Well said!

[@gertpacu3926]

Every single person in these videos is DEAD.

[@user-nj6bt5gy4s]

the only time traveling to the past we can do

[@sally5983]

I can't help feel strange looking at these unsuspecting people going about their day, no idea that some 90 odd years later future generations would be watching them in awe and wonder.

[@sally5983]

@@eily_b What a misery arse you are. Taking your time to criticize an innocent comment. Tough if you don't like it.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

@@sally5983 you can't possibly know what thoughts are in other peoples' minds, can you?? I've "predicted" a number of things several decades in advance, and my goodness, it wasn't difficult. :) Civilization fought for centuries for the right to remain private, and unforeseeable embarrassment and jeopardy could well be a justifiable reason why. That's why filming in public is one of the most inappropriate things another human being can subject others to. It's completely inconsiderate to whatever the "subject's" own personal circumstances might be... particularly rough sleepers and the disadvantaged.

[@notsheepish8304]

@@letsdiscussitoversometea8479 You don't think they knew they were being filmed? Some looked right at the camera.

[@letsdiscussitoversometea8479]

@@notsheepish8304 you're not *_really_* suggesting that some random person ought to be able to put all those sorts of considerations together in their minds right at that very same instant that they see a camera being placed right in front of their faces unexpectedly, do you??? Let's be realistic with the context of what we're asking each other, when we're asking it. It doesn't come across as a very intelligent question to ask otherwise, and can be very taxing on the person having to explain themselves. Have a nice day.

[@trollnerd]

No time was perfect, no sense in idolizing a time period. Every time period has its problems.

[@jorisbonson386]

Gotta love it when people wear a tux to the beach

[@rezphilosophy]

they had suuch class

[@stevenrogers8939]

Amazing and haunting. It’s a reminder we too will be nothing but memories.

[@repentandbebaptized108]

Your soul is eternal. If you die in your sins, you will spend eternity in hell. Repent and surrender to Jesus

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

We are all just three or four generations from being totally forgotten.

[@selohcin]

Hats off to all the people who worked to improve the resolution, frame rate, color accuracy, and audio of this footage. Well done!

[@dennisgarber]

Seems like AI could restore video in minutes or even seconds, making human restoration editors irrelevant, or at least merely the quality control guy who fixes a few mistakes that ai makes--just as the modern programming coder.

[@selohcin]

@@dennisgarber The problem with generative AI is that it "hallucinates" and puts in details that were never really there. Human editors will always be necessary when dealing with historical footage, as will coders.

[@dennisgarber]

@@selohcin This is indeed a catastrophic problem for historical footage. But I do not see it as catastrophic for entertainment movies or out of copyright clips used in commercials. The restored film here is first rate.

[@Tron-Jockey]

The audio is likely dubbed in. Although the first "talkies" were created in 1927, early films like this were likely without audio. I you watch closely you can tell. Still a masterful job of restoration though.

[@Rybz]

@@selohcin Yes, but no, they will only be needed for has long hallucinations happens, and it won't take long. Pls don't say "will always need human" for AI software. People should have already realized AI is gonna be better and more reliable than all of us at basically everything in the next few decades. The world will change a lot.

[@Chaos_Fantasmic]

Sometimes I'm reminded that people in the 1920s saw the world just like we do, and not in blurry black and white, it was colorful and clear

[@honeymelon6177]

Yeah I mean a lot of them would have died in the 70s-00s depending on their age etc so they would have seen quite a few similar things to us which is strange to think about.

[@pcatful]

Color first appeared in the '40s. The world was black and white before that. The cameras don't lie.

[@Joao-id4dn]

with less industries and less polution, it was even clearer and more colourful than our reality.

[@Joao-id4dn]

@@pcatful that makes sense ...except for those colourful paintings of the italian renaissance....

[@pcatful]

@@Joao-id4dn The paints turned to color in the 40's 😃

[@SentimentalFellaVA]

I love the Atlantic City clip. There's something so reassuring about the kids 100 years ago goofing off just like the kids of today.

[@user-bx2vk1rw5n]

One thing through the generations, everyone has a blast at the beach.

[@jackbeckett2838]

The restoration is incredible. It makes me realise how much of our perception of the past since picture/video was invented is heavily dependent on video quality - it influences how the times felt to those of us who never lived in them. Videos like this are sobering in the sense that the world actually looked the exact same aside from fashion and technology. That might be obvious, its not like reality itself had a lower frame rate back then, but to actually see something this old as if it is a modern video is a really strange experience.

[@scandalous596]

I was thinking the exact same thoughts. It made me realize the 20s were just another era and all of a sudden it doesn’t seem that long ago when it’s in color.

[@arienesantos7891]

I was amazed by the colors

[@OlgasBritishFells]

It's like proper time travelling

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

When you really think about it, 100 years or 200 or even 300 really isn't that long ago, all you have to do is think of someone 100 years old today...then think of someone 100 years old before, etc. And then you're suddenly back several hundreds of years.

[@DERKONIG12345]

Thanks to Deep Learning and AI...

[@MrBeagle10]

Beautiful and haunting. Knowing they are not actors in a recent movie but real people, in that fleeting moment 100 years ago, is like falling through time. The colours bring the sense of being present, without the symbolic nostalgia of B & W. When they look directly at you through the camera, there's quite a strange feeling of connection. Great work.

[@DxModel219]

Was sunglasses not invented yet!!??

[@Unknown-jt1jo]

Well said!

[@bellbookcandle3051]

So well said! Expresses my feelings too. 👍

[@MrHifihifi]

You're hearing the voices of actors from I'm guessing 2020-2022 dubbing scripted dialogue not the actual voices of these people because there was no sound film recording in the 2020s!

[@MrReasonabubble]

​@@MrHifihifiyes, but it helps to sell the illusion. When Peter Jackson made his film "They Shall Not Grow Old", I believe they went to a lot of effort to lip-read the mouths of the soldiers where possible and record dialogue that represented what they were actually saying. I suspect the approach taken here is a bit more vague. 😊

[@ChristinaMiller-nv9wi]

My third great grandparents got married in Odessa Ukraine and are also buried there. Although the video was taken a couple years after their death, it still makes me cry. In loving memory of my third great grandparents, Regina Bertsch (1851-1918) Wendelin Streifel (1853-1917) and their children.

[@rafiashraf2769]

What does “third” mean here?

[@ChristinaMiller-nv9wi]

@@rafiashraf2769 they are three generations from me, my great great great grandparents.

[@Leonid.Y]

Odessa & Black Sea are the best.

[@bazarkin-pubg]

When your relatives got married, there was no such country as Ukraine. It was the Russian Empire. Ukraine was a region of Russia until 1991.

[@Leonid.Y]

@@bazarkin-pubg It used to be one of 15 republics with its own government.

[@robbiegloverofficial]

The crazy thing about this is old footage seems so rare and scarce to us but with things like KZbin when today is 100 years ago, they'll have tons of footage of us to say "Did they really dress like that" haha 😊🙏🏼 They also might not be as intrigued about old footage as we are either because it won't be as scarce to them as something from 100+ years or so ago is to us at the moment, if you get what I mean lol I do love seeing old footage though ❤️🙏🏼😊

[@NandoDisco]

I think it might be scarce. I watched a news segment where there's a growing movement amongst middle shoolers rejecting new tech. Instead of iphones they're asking for typewriters. It's kind of insane to think about it being inundated with phones now but if more people keep rejecting it, our footage might be considered rare at some point as well.

[@MrTrevortxeartxe]

Its _absolutely astounding_ how entirely clothed everyone at the beach in Florida is. A full suit and tie. At the beach. You've gotta be kidding.

[@guccideltaco]

Just thinking about all the SAND in their nice clothes made me a little uncomfortable.

[@sess122]

True, but nice to see either way when people took a lot of pride in their appearance...especially compared to what we see today not even on the beaches but everywhere in public. Certainly not a good sign for America's future.

[@alexm2833]

it's decency, people were very proud and decent then. No twerking half nude slobs anywhere.

[@JohanWXC]

Virtue, self-respect, and modesty are nearly dead.

[@sombruhcolomar7254]

there used to be laws about womens swimsuits. i forget which year were they allowed shorts not more than 6" above the knee in some places men werent allowed shirtless until almost the 40s

[@styrofoamx229]

It’s insane to think that everyone shown here is long decomposed and gone. But here we see them happy and full of life.

[@agata_katherina]

Yup, all I could think about watching this.

[@tartgreenapple]

All dead, like we will be soon enough.

[@styrofoamx229]

@@tartgreenapple it’s almost like we never existed or mattered in the first place. What’s the point of being here in the first place then?

[@tartgreenapple]

@@styrofoamx229 In my opinion, there is no point. Nor does there need to be. Life just "is".

[@cd6084]

If from this video we are able to reflect on the limited time we have here, how can we be so quick to conclude (from our own limited perspective) that it simply doesn’t matter? Just because it’s short? I think that’s a poor argument.

[@Phrancis5]

Watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.

[@jonglazer5910]

A big part of what really brings this to life is the sound that was added to the silent restored footage. That was a lot of sound design work.

[@d.s.4627]

Time marches on. It is wonderful to go back to see these people and places.

[@Revealthereal_]

We will all be dead soon just like this lot of humans.

[@otishibbard1677]

most if not all the people in this film are now dead :(

[@veryslyfox]

Everyone there is white. Not single minority. What's so wonderful about a monolithic and racist past?

[@catfeeder5306]

That shot of the cars on the street in France looks absolutely stunning, like it was filmed today. Brilliant piece of restoration work on that footage.

[@DaraGaming42]

It’s like I’m watching 2013 Great Gatsby

[@masterfulsky]

if it was filmed today the cars would be on fire

[@dancarter482]

@@masterfulsky Like a Soweto ghetto!

[@uhuihiuihiuh3042]

@@masterfulsky Sad to think of the paradise the West gave up in the name of diversity.

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

@@dancarter482 what cars are on fire there?

[@ineffablemars]

I loved this. The restoration makes it feel so much more relatable. These were real people with lives, feelings, thoughts.. made me tear up a bit that we can even get a glimpse into the past like this.

[@_MaxHeadroom_]

Surprised nobody is mentioning how incredibly accurate the artifical sounds seem. That must be much harder to do than it might seem

[@sartorio2007]

Actually not so accurate at least at one point: people at Odessa beach in 1928 highly unlikely would speak Ukrainian - it would be Russian or sometimes Surjik (mix of Russian and Ukrainian), but mostly Russian, because it was the language of the city from its founding time and the language (or lingua franca) of most of the turists in USSR. Ukrainian itself at that time was mainly present in rural areas or in far western parts of present Ukraine.

[@StarlitScimitar]

@@sartorio2007it sounded like Russian to me

[@DasherBeats]

It’s crazy how much older film footage looks when there’s no colour. Adding colour makes things feel more real

[@Osprey850]

Also important is the more than doubling of the framerate to 60fps, which makes it look less like a movie. The "soap opera effect" that 60fps produces is generally considered too distracting for movies, but suits sports and home movie material like this, since looking as real as possible is the goal. Switching the quality of this video to 480p also drops it to 30fps and helps to demonstrate this. It suddenly looks more like a movie at 30fps and some of the uncanny feeling watching it disappears.

[@sn98886]

And when the quality isn’t potato like.

[@datboi7160]

im the 399th liker!

[@carlj7466]

I feel the opposite once they add color lol

[@robertmasina7388]

The color adds something like I was physically there as to see what I saw visually.

[@slvrangel22]

I'm fascinated with the early 1900s. So much has changed drastically since then from fashion, to technology, to even values and lifestyles. The family structure has even changed. But the simplicity of enjoying the sand and ocean and sun ties us together. Thank you for sharing this footage.

[@zero_pc_6234]

Its all gone woke thats the problem.

[@gigasipke]

Yes, I feel like I'm watching something from today, the clothes might be different but it is all familiar.

[@veryslyfox]

First thing I noticed is no obese walruses

[@jamie.goodson]

@@poa2.0surface77 Fake news. There were hand-held video cameras in the '20s. From Wikipedia - "In the 1920s, more cameras such as the Zeiss-Ikon Kinamo, Newman-Sinclair, Eyemo, and De Vry were beginning to be created with *hand-held* ergonomics in mind. These smaller cameras satisfied the demand from both the growing newsreel and documentary fields, as well as the emerging amateur market."

[@stratford1]

@@guyledouche6839 diversity is objectively a good thing. This comment section is full of right-wingers being idiotic as usual. “Woke”, my ass, it’s called not being degenerate racists.

[@Katriiify]

This is why is LOVE KZbin, you always end up finding these hidden gems. It's incredible, i somehow feel kinda privileged watching this.

[@WendyQallab]

These are some of the best I have ever seen . So colorful and real . They dressed so beautiful.

[@SeaBreeze2247]

This is an amazing restoration. I thought about my parents, who would have been the age of these young people, and felt a great connection. Thank you.

[@chriscaputo5390]

thats amazing, my grandparents werent even born yet

[@ZakRoloff]

I don't believe for a second your folks were born in the early 1900's...

[@SeaBreeze2247]

@@ZakRoloff My father was born in 1904 in South Carolina. My mother in 1914, in Staines, England.

[@Unknown-jt1jo]

@@ZakRoloffOlder people do exist, you know. Some of them even use KZbin.

[@visualdosage234]

@@ZakRoloff why not, the person typing this might be 80 years old

[@branevans3705]

So strange and interesting at the same time. People alive way back when, but now passed-seeing them as if it's just happening.

[@gregdolecki8530]

Even the kids. All long gone.

[@sharjeelhumayun2691]

Ikr exactly

[@mrssmg4756]

​@@gregdolecki8530welllll there are a few people who get to live 100+ years. So maybe there are a few still alive?

[@mrssmg4756]

​@@gregdolecki8530 Who is the oldest person alive today? The oldest living person as of May 2023 is María Branyas Morera. She is 116 years old. Born on 4th March 1907, the American-Spanish supercentenarian is the world's oldest person. (Source: google)

[@JROME69]

It always is. And always will be. Right here right now.

[@gortnewton4765]

Look how clean and well dressed they are! No torn jeans and torn shirts, no shabby clothes or dirty clothes.

[@lindahollander3588]

Also they didn't talk filthy and then act like they are so cool,how miss guided people are now

[@plantwizard666]

yea that's because there were LAWS on the beach about what people wore lmao. The style also changed as people became more free. Fashion is an important part of history. Believe it or not, the roaring 20s style was a shocking and risqué change to the 1910s. That was their torn jeans and mini skirts

[@lindahollander3588]

@@plantwizard666 in late 40s or early 50s my mom was young, when she wore shorts for the first time her mom, my grandmother, was shocked and told her she shouldn't dress like that. So when I had to introduce my miniskirts to her,she didn't like it and I reminded her about her wearing shorts.

[@UNSTABLE111]

@@lindahollander3588 idk about that, I highly doubt everyone was clean and pristine back in the day.We always see good things through lenses, but Im pretty damn sure there were people with egos even back in the 1920s and 1910s..

[@Thot_Patrol_USA]

alright, i’ll give you the ripped jeans one. but some people can’t help if they’re clothes are dirtier. cause they’re too poor

[@JohnMichaelson]

The fashion and technology is different but the people are the same when you catch them in candid moments just living life. What a fun restoration!

[@udospanier8321]

I love those jazzed-up time machine video clips, but it always gives me a stab in the heart to know that these busy, going about their daily lives, sometimes happy people are long gone - ghosts of the past.

[@cathleenmoyle1476]

Not even ghosts... just soulless memories.

[@Superbad22]

We live and we die that’s our curse. They had they’re time to live just like today we have our time to live, then one day just like we are doing, a future generation will look at footage of us after we are long past. It’s just the nature of things

[@destinyyt6675]

At some point everyone becomes ghosts of the past sadly that's just the sands of time, it keeps turning weather your there or not.

[@once.upon.a.time.]

the littlest kids might still be alive. I worked at a retirement community and there was a resident who was born in the 20s still kickin it. She was nearly a hundred and had recently quit driving her convertible and went from a cane to a walker. But she always came down to dinner dressed and done up all prim and proper. :) I really loved her because she was born around the same time as my own grandmother, so I could see how she might have been were she still here. :)

[@naomisoltesz9890]

People die. What really sucks is knowing that in a few years many of these people had to live through the second world war.

[@bunnywavyxx9524]

1:02 sounds so modern and the ending clip, "you can always see my reflection" wow!

[@darania1]

Watching these vintage clips with a sense of wonder feeling like a strangely vivid deja vu dream of a past life I never knew I had...

[@aenigmatica8]

Incredible footage. I’m actually always amazed at how much peoples’ mannerisms and speech have changed in just 100 years!

[@HMHLongboarderz]

Big facts on god. Bet

[@MothsAreTheBest]

Remember that the audio isn't from the video

[@jimboramba]

You need only go back to the mid 2000s to see people acting entirely different from how they do now.

[@mamavswild]

Pretty sure the audio has been dubbed in recently and wasn’t their exact words

[@pronounshismajesty3542]

Blame the blx and Jews

[@tinarennett9041]

Everyone happy and enjoying a day at the beach just wonderful.

[@belle3055]

Wonderful to be a white person lol

[@steveb9151]

These people feel so ALIVE. Great work!

[@Mavisaurora]

0:14 a glimpse of Ryan Gosling in the 1920s. :P

[@cedarledgepublishing]

Enhanced videos like these are the closest we will come to time travel. Well done!

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Maybe not, maybe in top secret projects we've already figured out how to time travel it's just us the public unaware of this. After all, the late boss at Lockheed Martin Ben Rich, once said that 'everything you see on Star Trek we've already done'...

[@morgdaforg]

I love these old videos, as an actor who is currently playing a 1920s role they are really helpful to see how people moved and talked back then

[@vlada4718]

Wasn't expecting to see Odesa here at all!😍😍😍🤯 Wow, thank you for this video!🙏🏻😍

[@Shadowman9348]

My great grandmother born in 1927 passed away recently. This footage is a real treasure, I love it.

[@perceive8159]

Watching videos in black and white makes me feel like I'm looking into the past, but in color it makes me feel it's current with people dressed up😊 Excellent!

[@ChadRosas]

WOW. Amazing work. Amazing times. Thank you for sharing.

[@user-dw4kn9oi1m]

Wonderful 1920s beach scenes !

[@leea2112]

Oh how I love the 1920s fashions they are so classy !! 💖💖💖💖

[@trollnerd]

And racist! Oh the racism was glorious.

[@gooselord1898]

@@trollnerd just like today, not everyone was racist. but historically, people from all over have had racial prejudice. so shush, and let people enjoy things.

[@trollnerd]

@@gooselord1898 no its not like today. You know why these beaches are only white people? Because were black people literally weren't allowed.

[@cardboardcapeii4286]

@@trollnerdyes it is. Problem liberal?

[@trollnerd]

@@cardboardcapeii4286 yes that is a problem you cretin

[@shadow__dancer]

The upressed framerate really makes this look like it's happening today. This is amazing.

[@preciousmousse]

Amazing! Life is really short. Probably all of these people are gone now, they were living life just like us. Thank you!

[@kennyguitarallen5662]

just brilliant time travel,wow,these people long long gone.rip

[@karenhoward6712]

Fabulous! I love vintage clothing too!

[@PopCultureAnticSS]

The girl from English Bay Canada in the greenish brown bathing suit was a beauty.More simplicity in those days than todays.Thank you for preserving these videos

[@teshamusic6048]

No cellphones. Everyone just enjoying each others companion and real bonds.

[@Robbeltje]

The sound is spot on

[@Scalpaxos]

It's amazing how the colors/framerate give an entire new perspective, as much as I like the vintage black and white footage, it has a distortion effect on how things really were and looked like. Fantastic job.

[@adrianthelibrarian]

they used AI, so the lack of distortion is just illusion. for me the AI-generated audio actually detracts from the realism of the scenes depicted.

[@outlander234]

@@adrianthelibrarian The colors arent an illusion. Its much more realistic than black and white lol

[@bornanagaming3329]

The framerate makes them move weird

[@provisionalhypothesis]

@@adrianthelibrarian nah

[@heatherrue2655]

What a time to be in France… ❤

[@tacticalsapper]

Because a few months later the second world war started after the last one just ended a few months before?

[@akrenwinkle]

Better than 2021. Flu-la-la!

[@paulmcdonough1093]

then the germans invaded

[@todaywelive2267]

It's crazy to think that my 100 year old great grandma was around during those times, and these times. It wasn't as long ago as we all think it was.

[@Floppyearsmomma]

Exactly! That’s why there’s such a movement to “romanticize” our lives by reading fiction set in this time wearing the fashions, and listening to nostalgic music.

[@ruthpaige6689]

People look so happy and healthy. Very well dressed, too. Thanks for posting.

[@davidmitchell6873]

Except for the polio and small pox.

[@pj1343]

the people behind these old footage restorations are amazing. keep at it with this outstanding work!

[@hahandroo]

It was done by AI

[@fizzypizzel6477]

AI

[@Lionheart1157]

Great film. Such great skin tone too. People look so happy.

[@BigPaPaRu]

OH MY, there is sound. Wonderful

[@nas10iris]

This is such beautiful footage. But I just kept thinking of how much they were sweating!

[@yuppers1]

They might have been wearing linen

[@Oberbaumbruecke]

They had better clothes for warm days then you and me. Natural vibres. 🤗 😂

[@TrephineArtist]

Very hot weather well before the climate change alarmist agenda began!

[@tristanflynn4014]

Probably wearing Muslin or some other light, breathable fabric made for the purpose.

[@ratrm]

Their body was also adjusted and used to dressing like that. They didn't have air conditioning etc. We are spoiled and feel the heat more because of our constantly controlled environment.

[@canadaclub8920]

The water and beaches look so clean

[@bonjourtoi3894]

La classe pour aller à la plage. Que dire du bonnet. C'est vraiment trop beau. Les voitures ! Wow !

[@ShaunNugent-bp6hl]

This is everything

[@nella10123]

This resolution is amazing! By the looks of it, you would think it was filmed in the 90s or early 2000s. Its amazing what technology can do. There was so much class and elegance back then, wish I could time travel but this is the closest thing to time travel I'll get. Thanks for this upload!

[@ecMonify]

nothing classier than laying down to sleep on the beach in a full suit! :D

[@nella10123]

@@ecMonify hahahah I mean that was the style back then so I guess they were used to it 😂

[@user-wh5ir4fo4r]

A tiny part of that is that the hairstyles are the same. We were doing the '20s and '30s mixed with the '70s in fashion and beauty in the '90s. I miss it.

[@Firebrand55]

..the sound editing.......10/10!...and brilliant colourization.

[@artierobinette4903]

Really excellent audio, the wind noise at times made it feel authentic.

[@user-xg6yc8ho3w]

Amazing footage. Thank you.

[@koolerpure]

Fascinating times lol. Bringing a fancy suit to the beach

[@stargirl7646]

Fun to see that people have always enjoyed a nice day the beach 🥰 I hope they enjoyed their time

[@herrunbekannt3822]

Spoiler alert: ...

[@everIark]

@@herrunbekannt3822?

[@-Aashish-]

It's hard to explain how I feel watching these people having fun and then realising that they're probably gone. Great restoration btw. 👍🏼

[@Louis275]

Probably gone? The only ones that could possibly still be living from that time are the children. Even they would be close to a hundred by now.

[@SaithMasu12]

The form is gone, the spirit moves on.

[@Phrancis5]

Yes, watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.

[@thomaslechner1622]

Mind-boggling!!

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

Incredible stuff...thanks!

[@Mariposa1217]

So lovely to see how elegant those days were. ❤

[@gboo7563]

They were dressed too the T and just carried themselves different

[@barneyboyle6933]

They had dignity and pride. This was before the good guys lost WWII and were subjected to half a century of humiliation rituals

[@davestevenson9080]

@@barneyboyle6933 surprised to see this comment here. All of these people wishing they lived like this, not realising they still would if the rebels to this monstrous global order had succeeded. long live the austrian painter.

[@jovannyc7158]

@bigdaddy9489you think the holocaust was the good guy?

[@rose-yeah]

@@barneyboyle6933black pepper disagree with that😂

[@ericpalacios920]

0:57 "maybe you should cut that out" sounds so modern

[@antoniocasias5545]

?

[@ericpalacios920]

​@@antoniocasias5545it sounds like a modern American accent and speech rhythm. Doesn't register as 100 years old.

[@antoniocasias5545]

@@ericpalacios920 and you know what 100 year old speech sounded like? I mean you know those TV programs don’t represent the accent you hear everyday.

[@ericpalacios920]

@@antoniocasias5545 I've watched lots of old casual interviews and most of them don't sound like me (Californian accent). This one just happened to, maybe by coincidence. Idk it's not that deep.

[@elianamarinho9542]

Beautiful images, great restoration 🕵️🥰 🎞️🎥👏

[@BennyTygohome]

I love this. Thank you.

[@ctgeorgia]

Absolutely loved watching this! I remember my grandmother talking about what it was like back then...and now I get to see a glimpse of what she saw.

[@chanelfitzgerald]

I love the lady at the end topping up her lipstick on the beach. They all looked so calm, relaxed, respectful of one another. Those brown carriages on the beach back then, were they change rooms? Lovely video, thanks.

[@francine8806]

Yes, they were portable changing rooms, called bathing machines. They were also common in the Victorian era and were wheeled a little ways out into the water so ladies could change and then plunge into the water without being seen on the beach in their bathing attire.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@francine8806 I'd have been shocked then to see a hint of ankle! I'd be shocked now! Okay, I'm sheltered.

[@peterlawrence6079]

OK, I understand these films have been colorized, but I'm surprised there were portable movie cameras at all in the 1920s. And with sound, too? Or were voices added later?

[@latinolawdog5067]

@@peterlawrence6079 sound is artificially added later.

[@Aethelhadas]

@@latinolawdog5067 you mean the sound of this video arent the actual sound of the clips?

[@richardea4223]

I love the Atlantic City clip. It's is so different today than it was back then; so pure. The casinos ruined that was once a beautiful city. My Aunt Francis was a flapper in the 20s. By having the pleasure of viewing this wonderful footage, I am able to get a glimpse into her world. The ladies are beautiful ❤

[@roseissance]

May all those in this footage who are no longer with us rest peacefully in the afterlife. ❤🕊️

[@davidmitchell6873]

That's pretty much all of them.

[@salcherttraenkner]

the beach, they still dressed up so nice. There was so much class and elegance back then

[@stevemolina5470]

I love these old videos! A sense of community was so common in those days. Something we lack here in Los Angeles. Nobody in this video is on a phone, or device. They're all just enjoying each others company.

[@tristanflynn4014]

You mean like everyone still does at the beach?

[@stevemolina5470]

@@tristanflynn4014 i wish I knew what beach your thinking of. Because I go to Redondo, Hermosa, Manhattan and Palisades beaches and everyone just stays to themselves. And they are all.on their phones or sleeping.

[@AshleyxVlogs]

You mean like how you’re on your phone/the internet right now instead of enjoying other people’s company? 😂

[@stevemolina5470]

@@AshleyxVlogs exactly! You get it!

[@jasmynnmaleah7553]

Because they didn’t have any devices…

[@jj-if6it]

0:20 it's cool to imagine that some of these people could be my Dutch great grandparents, enjoying a day at the beach

[@rodterrell304]

Now this is more like it. I always thought the past was in black and white and it was hard to imagine how it looked back then. This really is the best I've seen. Great to see people that were not actors.

[@jenkem4464]

Wow, the conversion to 60fps really makes these way more realistic.

[@Cablecol]

The color reimaging makes the people seem modern and vibrant. The audio was a nice touch too.👍😎

[@Lenny.262]

This is uncanny. It's almost from a century ago. Incredible.

[@ZackstaDaxta]

Something about this seems so superior 🥰

[@bondsons]

My skin is itching already, so much sand in those clothes!

[@jj-if6it]

These are amazing. Fixing the colour and speed brings it instantly to life and makes 100 years ago not feel so distant

[@user-fe5lq6tm8i]

They were so elegant!

[@charlesedwards4160]

Wow. Such dignified people.

[@goombabear]

This looks better than video that I took back in 2007 of my newborn baby.

[@vidiot9006]

Excellent restoration and enhancement... Really brings our past to life! Wonderful to feel a connection with this past era, as my dad was born in 1925...

[@bd764]

I love videos like this. Its amazing.Cars were in their infancy,tv didnt exist,and radio was just coming around. Nothing even close to a cumputer,or much less a smart phone. But yea,with amazing clarity and color,it seems almost unreal.Like this was staged and filmed yesterday.

[@vinyltimewithamy1984]

Ok….this just made me smile ✨🤍 Thank you!

[@tannerg4511]

Wow it makes it feel like this could have been filmed recently. Because it looks so modern, it makes it so much more spooky to think about how its very likely that every single person captured in these videos are deceased. Makes you think about how fast life is...all these people so full of youth and enjoying things that we still do to this day.

[@bumbabees]

its weird to see such old footage look so new. i guess its easy to forget that they lived the exact same way we did. just in a different period.