【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.
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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.

[@user-mz1uy6qs3l]

I hope so,but the possibility is little. It is difficult for staying alive at wartime,especially for child.

[@mahonghao9971]

it maybe possible. THere is once a Qing denasty lady who lived 128 years old .Just 2019 or 2020 news I heard online.

[@nuj427]

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

[@ericjoin7811]

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.

[@kwchew3302]

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, 角度是不同，但却也誏我们看到了那个年代的真实生活，也是我们先辈在中國的生活缩影，感觸很深！希望您能用您的專才，在这方面專於还原那个年代所有拍摄的視頻，这是很有历史性的記录！意義深遠，对后人有很大的贡献 ! ！

[@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

[@glenchua3315]

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 !!!

[@angeldrawsdoodles6653]

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

[@dgspitzer4771]

Thank you so much!! I'll keep working on it!

[@thuandao4243]

@@dgspitzer4771 love your work, please continue.....

[@thebay1642]

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

[@ReiKuroshima]

Wow，amazing！where are you from

[@thebay1642]

@@ReiKuroshima San Francisco,Ca

[@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 .

[@alonagold535]

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

[@axnjack5]

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.

[@MuIIigan]

These vids are amazing

[@RA-gj6hm]

wow this is really cool

[@martinbraescher894]

thanks for it!

[@idolinocreon4418]

Awesome!

[@namkaengpancharat9031]

Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@JinnSong]

爱了，一切都是那么生动😍

[@realist2095]

Iv always been fascinated by Chinese culture.

[@xiaoshanwu1353]

大谷老师您好，能不能出一期关于此类视频的教学，万分感谢，太想学了

[@thesavvyartist]

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

[@verybarebones]

Theyre kids?

[@qouavang3646]

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.

[@ajaydeva3531]

I can't see john xina here..

[@lospuntosstudios5149]

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

[@XdvFf-fx9mu]

以前的剃头匠是如何用剪刀把头发剪得那么短那么好的？

[@padhebas]

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

[@hnyylilu]

太神奇了，身临其境的赶脚

[@leilei45]

请问这种老旧的视频在哪里找的？？我想去看看，谢谢

[@takitslo7812]

可以問一下你的AI修復技術是自己做的嗎？ 還是通過某種管道載來的😌

[@dgspitzer4771]

😃我用到的基本都是开源的AI项目，可以参考description里的项目名称在github上找到对应的代码（比如DeOldify, GFP-GAN这些），也有配套的预训练模型，搭一个Anaconda虚拟环境运行即可~

[@takitslo7812]

@@dgspitzer4771感恩感恩，我會試試看的

[@fishou3080]

知道了 谢谢

[@sylviendongondo6820]

✌👌

[@shelltheobjectthingy2ndcha916]

Software 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢?

[@acolyte1951]

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.

[@LiBobkk]

2:19 handsome

[@ludy4723]

皮肤太光滑😄

[@user-ev1qr9cp8e]

還集體拉了雙眼皮

[@lordbig7875]

地點是哪裡？ 怎麼小孩大人都是雙眼皮的.

[@kongkong987]

国内抖音包括其他平台的账号为嘛注销了啊？

[@BHB9980]

想想画面里活生生的每个人基本已经作古。。。

[@mhyunsook]

never saw female adults except one so far including other videos

[@user-po5sq7ic8e]

看完觉得生命就是个轮回，投胎转世真的存在，就是体会不一样的人生罢了，没必要太较真，想过什么样的生活就随性而过吧

[@ramanjeet1111]

hehehe......alll thes children are our ancestors

[@eldonvincent7917]

☹️ 𝓟Ř𝔬𝓂𝔬𝐒ϻ

[@EmAnh-ot1qj]

vietnam😢.china mao school????????????????????????/

[@peanut_butter_thief]

Great work but i wish it was soundless, lol. Those high-pitched voices made my ears bleed.

[@aoibheannnibhroin9951]

Where is some kung fu fight in streets?

[@lengthao8424]

China is a civilized country. Unlike wild wild west America or European wild man killing on the streets left to right..........!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@33Donner77]

The crowd appears to be appropriately dressed and well-fed, unlike some later communist years.

[@anonanon7235]

You had to sneak a low blow in there didn't you Anderson.

[@lindaisy6567]

1929，China hadn't been invaded by Japan and enjoy a short peaceful period.

[@33Donner77]

@@anonanon7235 The years of communist revolution under "The Great Helmsman Mao", the starvation of about 35 million from 1959 to 1961 and the destruction of Chinese society during the cultural revolution under older Crazy Uncle Mao and his "actress" wife were very hard setbacks in the history of China. How would China have evolved under Chiang Kai-shek? Like Taiwan?