Amazing Restored Variety Show from the early 1940s

[@richin2123]

How much more fascinating historic footage like this must be languishing in studio vaults?? Thank you for your efforts to rescue this stuff from being forgotten!

[@drctrs]

Not much. Most of the vault footage was discarded by the studios or destroyed in their storages' fires.

[@blmi5591]

@@drctrs ☹☹☹

[@richin2123]

@@drctrs That's sad. 😞

[@magus104]

sadly more has probably been destroyed forever from sitting in personal collections then family members viewing film reels as garbage to be tossed after the owner passes away

[@SoonerStateProspector]

Finding a copy of London After Midnight is impossible. Destroyed in the MGM fire in 1965.

[@eclecticx]

Winter Sisters were an amazing and gorgeous acrobatic and tumbling act.

[@snoosri]

notice they are not using a modern springboard floor! pretty hardcore!

[@eclecticx]

​@@snoosri Incredibly talented indeed.

[@azillliasmith2734]

Absolutely 🌹❤️🌸👍🏻

[@1980peterv]

She did a round off full!?! Crazy

[@andrzejnowacki3341]

Siostry są super.Ogląda się ich występ z przyjemnością.

[@philipinchina]

The years it must have taken to train that horse. What dedication.

[@MarkWhich]

No it's a costume puppeted by two men.

[@arnowinter462]

The horse was trained by Mister Ed... :-)

[@laurentguyot3362]

@@MarkWhich LOL

[@helenandrichard]

@@MarkWhich a man and a woman.

[@jeffreyedwards5262]

@@MarkWhich Well, fancy that.😀

[@nustaniel]

I love how enthusiastic the bass player is, so enthusiastic he doesn't even play any of the notes. That's talent.

[@davidmiranda4745]

You couldn't even hear his playing over all the trebly sounds, so I get why he did THAT xD

[@frank6048]

He was playing, I don't know how they restored this, but you can't hear anything any other instrument including the girl with the maracas. It could have sound a lot more impressive if we could hear all the instruments harmonize and not just the guy in the middle

[@RenanDavidSoriaAhumada]

thats tv for real remember how all the jackson 5 tv presentations where full of lipsync

[@FreyaOakley]

Don't know what y'all are on about. I can hear all of the instruments, though I agree they are fainter than the lead man.

[@framegrace1]

I think is just that some sync was lost on the montage. (Some parts the bass is in sync and some parts not).

[@MrThidj901]

I would pay cable TV if there was a channel replaying this restored content all year round!

[@MinecraftMartin]

That would be pretty amazing wouldn't it

[@Friendo111]

Thanks guys, stay tuned ;)

[@taurusguy9305]

You're not alone. I could sit and watch all day all night for restored classic videos on this particular era.

[@bleizbreizh6264]

Amazing! My mother did the Pansy the horse act, touring the States at the end of the war. She got a nice mention in 'Variety' magazine and even met Sinatra in Vegas. In her later life she was passionate about 'real' horses!

[@GrantTarredus]

It fascinates me when any tidbit of unrecorded show biz history surfaces before it’s lost forever, so this is interesting. Did your mother share any anecdotes or information you’d like to tell us about? Working in that costume had to be very difficult and very hot, and I can’t imagine dancing in it. Do you know if this was the suit she used? This is the first time I’ve heard of the character, so for all I know this was the only Pansy suit ever made, or maybe there were dozens. Thanks for telling us about your mother, and many thanks to Vivid History for a terrific upload.

[@bleizbreizh6264]

@@GrantTarredus luckily for mother she was the horses trainer and got to wear the glamorous outfit! I understand life in the horse costume wasn't that great, they once did television and heat from the studio lights was terrible. There must have been several 'Pansy' acts, the clip from Variety mentions a famous Hollywood actress of the day who started out in the same role (wish I could remember her name). Somewhere I have a couple of publicity photos from Radio City Music Hall

[@james5460]

@@bleizbreizh6264 Virginia Mayo was one of the previous "horse trainers", she became famous afterwards - big star in the '40s and '50s. She got her stage name (original name was Jones) from this act, which her brother-in-law Andy Mayo (as shown in the title card in this) ran.

[@bleizbreizh6264]

@@james5460 Thank you! That's exactly it

[@kenlieck7756]

@@bleizbreizh6264 You're talking about the same Pansy though, right? Rather than there being several acts like this just coincidentally happening to share the same name, you're saying it was actually a sort of I guess franchise? That's an interesting insight into old showbiz...

[@Shazbut0191]

The best bit is Pansy walking out on stage to absolute deafening silence from the audience

[@MarceldeJong]

It felt like a lot of audio was missing from that bit.

[@dbhstockton]

@@MarceldeJongyes but it’s still funny

[@DoubleMonoLR]

It's pretty likely all of it was shot in silence, with the audio added afterwards(at least some of which has definitely added by the uploader - as per the description).

[@elm1230]

Yes it’s dubbed over lol audio added later. The horse most likely had the audience roaring with laughter lol

[@mildheadwound]

Possibly dumbfounded by how high the trainer's skirt was. I know i was!

[@chegeny]

Nice old film. Found the record of this short in the US Library of Congress, as "Jazz on the Screen", 1944. Andy Mayo and his wife Florence played the pantomime horse Pansy, with Connie Haas as the trainer. The Winter Sisters performed in vaudeville shows to earn money after their fathers' premature death. They toured in the USO with Bob Hope during the Second World War.

[@MN8]

they're insanely fit

[@bobert8618]

Six of the best legs I’ve seen 😍

[@Lasalas777]

Gracias por la información

[@salnaturile8653]

Sorry they had to endure that (touring with Bob Hope)

[@ugolagazzi4246]

I noted that the Pancy horse girl keeped legs very close, may be fot the time she was too nude...

[@brentjohnson4212]

Pansy’s silent, terrifying introduction and the metalhead bassist during the marimba scene are gold

[@christoffasmr7580]

Or Psychobilly

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

The women in this film were probably born around the same sort of time as my grandmother. I only ever knew her after her hair went grey and had false teeth. She died about 7 years ago now and would have been 103 now if she’d stayed alive. But my goodness what a remarkable woman she was! Hard-working, kind and fun. I remember when she was in her 80s she danced the can-can, not long having had a life-saving heart valve replacement, to try and encourage her sister to take her heart medication “Nora, if you take your pills you’ll be able to do the can-can like me”. And she’d let her false teeth drop out to frighten us as kids. Hilarious stuff! She was so full of life even if she was getting nearer the end of it. It’s hard to think that our sweet little silver-haired grannies were once active, vibrant, beautiful young women with energy, verve and youth on their side. It’s all too easy to think of them as just old people that need looking after, and forget that they once used to do so many amazing things. Some could sing well. Some could do gymnastics, some could play the marimba. Other did other remarkable things as part of their day-to-day lives. Many, many of them would turn young men’s heads and melt their hearts! And some would even work with pantomime horses! They were living lives just as exciting as ours, maybe even more so - and often under much harder circumstances. This video really brings it home to me. Thanks for posting this, and thanks to whoever did the remarkable restoration and colourisation.

[@kylesanders9]

Nearly made a grown man cry. Should be the top comment here. And it’s all true. When nanny would tell stories, kids would roll their eyes. But they had a much better life then we have now. They didn’t have to get hammered to have fun 🍻 they went to tea dances. They all had to work from a very early age and they all still had household chores to carry out when still living at home. No benefits. No hideous tattoos, Botox and weird lashes. The blokes used to woo the ladies and hope for the last dance… so many pluses to life then. There will of course be the obligatory comment on what society has now. Well when you don’t know what you don’t have, you don’t miss it. In 100yrs time, I wonder what folk will think about today’s society. And what will all these grotesque, caricatures of today look like? Nancy’s lips will be swinging from her chins, empty of Botox. And that full leg tattoo….. Well that’s going to be a talking point. Thanks for the comment 😉😉😉

[@ManicMindTrick]

@@kylesanders9 Pretty sure guys used to woo the ladies back then. Otherwise, we wouldn't be here ;-)

[@williammkydde]

That acrobatic dance was one heck of a performance. I don't understand how they managed their heartbeats and brains. Just as I thought they were done they started the most difficult part.

[@goodmorning2386]

Right? Their cardiovascular fitness must been insane

[@williammkydde]

@@goodmorning2386 Yes. And back in those days, TV couldn't do much editing. I can see no seams. There was this static camera, and the whole routine was danced from beginning to end, as I understand. I can't even think of how much practice it took. And with all that prowess and strength, they look fantastically feminine. We won't see anything or anybody like that nowadays.

[@ray.b.75]

Sad thing is, today one of those girls would have been body-shamed endlessly.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Apparently they were forced to fend for themselves from an early age when their father died, so they’d probably been doing acrobatics for at least 10 years at this point.

[@maksphoto78]

IKR, I nearly passed out from just watching them! This reminded me of an AGT act recently performed, check them out ^_^ kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZuTl2hoqLJ_gqM

[@4.0.4]

These restorations do more than enhance the image. They make it all feel relatable, while old film look can make it seem from an alternate dimension.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Indeed, it gives it an eerie quality and how it's like our own lives but weirdly different

[@PeterPaoliello]

I've always been amazed by the idea that in 100years they'll have 4k footage to look back on people who are equally distant in time and culture to what we see on b&w film.. And even more interesting perhaps it'll still look just as dated to them!

[@batacumba]

@@PeterPaoliello that’s sweet you think the world will still exist in 100 years

[@4.0.4]

@@PeterPaoliello I think by then AI will extrapolate our 4K and even the ancient film into whatever new 360 VR holographic format.

[@bjornunderabadsign]

Counterpoint: they make it look like shit.

[@gubbah]

The girl with the horse is Connie Haas, there's not much information on her, but damn she was gorgeous!

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Indeed

[@TucsonDude]

One of the commenters said it was her mother and gave some history.

[@therunawaykid6523]

She sure was, kind of reminds me of Maggie grace 😉

[@SalmanMahmood1]

Yes she died in 2008.

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

Because she didn't age well at all. She was done by 30. One of those...

[@kenfu9334]

the lady from pansy the horse made my heart jump up and down what a beautiful stunning lady wow

[@BuckarooBanzai333]

Connie Haas, not much known about her besides doing this act

[@peponwi2716]

There is something oddly pleasing about her, besides her obviously being pretty

[@therealgaragegirls]

She was lovely. Long dead by now, I imagine.

[@valberm]

She looks like Marilyn Monroe to be honest.

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

She's a rotting corpse now... you wanna dig her up and give her a kiss?

[@spacekitt.n]

this really makes people in the past feel so much more real

[@jonathaningram8157]

there is something about the way they move that feels strange nowaday.

[@kizzysnow4392]

@@jonathaningram8157 Really? I was thinking the way they moved was quite modern- that's why it feels so much more relatable. Because the way people move doesn't really change drastically with time.

[@jonathaningram8157]

@@kizzysnow4392 It felt less optimised like modern TV show, more authentic. At least that's what I felt.

[@leokimvideo]

Fantastic & Stunning restoration, Pansy the horse was plain spooky. Seeing the Reg Kehoe band reminded me very much of early Disney cartoon bands.

[@ElanaVital83]

Heyyy I know you!

[@helderjulio7753]

yes, when they, Disney, not had the activism virus in their woke agenda, as today.

[@wheelzwheela]

I thought they sounded very vintage Disney as well.

[@Leo0718]

There was only 1 person who knew how to fake playing a musical instrument on camera in that performance.

[@jeremymain7303]

There was a horse?

[@kernowarty]

I think those 3 girls at the beginning would win America's Got Talent or the X Factor today. Better than most of what I have seen on those shows.

[@davidmiranda4745]

Maybe someone will take inspiration from them, even with the style of their clothes and hair and such :P

[@AlienfromY841]

The most impressive part of all this is how crisp and smooth it plays on high definition. Whoever worked on this did an incredible job.

[@melissahourihan2344]

I have never seen a man rock out as hard as the man playing the bass for the marimba group

[@yal100]

For some reason I thought of cowbells. The stage director was probably like "I got a fever and the only cure is more bass!" 😂

[@lollybowser]

It's so cute!! Playing and dancing combined.

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

Like an ape!

[@Dial8Transmition]

I really like this, because when you look at the low quality black and white footage I feel kind of disconnected from it all. But when the videos have smooth motions and colors, you can relate to it a lot better. It's a bit weird to see but also very fun and charming in a way

[@thebigbanimationco.2985]

Super to see a clear and clean colorised version of the classic Reg Kehoe clip! One of my alltime favourites.."slap that bass!" Lol 😀

[@WildVee]

I'm so stunned by Connie Haas's beauty. I do wish we could see more from her!

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

She really didn't age well. She's one of those that was pretty much done by 30.

[@stevennicol7626]

Really entertaining. The girl with the horse, Connie Hass is one of the most beautiful woman ever seen on film. Absolutely adorable.

[@ManicMindTrick]

Yeah, you are not joking. She reminds me of the girl I was madly in love with as a young man. She was a stunner out of this world.

[@BestBadCover]

Yeah she was very cute 😊

[@ИванЛисьих-ц9с]

Попа узкая, какая то она не женственная в этом плане

[@Jesus_Saves_Believers]

She was in her teens and 20's. She didn't age well at all, tbh.

[@ashtonskyegorlewski2248]

Pansy is an absolute icon! I would love to go back in time for just a few hours or so, and watch this live during that time.

[@pdavide1]

You don't see acts like that anymore. In fact the old fashioned variety show I used to enjoy growing up with is basically a thing of the past. Thanks SO MUCH for making the effort to restore these great shows!

[@virgilblaze9090]

Acrobatics never fail to amaze me. The most i ever dared to do was a forward flip on a bouncy castle 😂

[@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391]

You call your wife a "bouncy castle"?

[@piffpaff9674]

Every performance so nice and charming, funny and talented, full of harmony and effortlessness- wonderful generation of artists and the best music ever. That kind of shows deserve to be preserved for many more generations to come. 👍🤩

[@SelectCircle]

If I were an archivist - I'd treat it like radioactive waste.

[@DAnny423h23]

The bassist is going all out. He puts more energy than 3 bassist of today combined

[@GothiicAngels]

have you seen the video of the "drummer at the wrong gig"? Him and the bassist would have made a great double act, shame they are 70 years apart

[@EricTViking]

@@GothiicAngels Steve Moore - I thought exactly the same 😂

[@brizzieleif5258]

I got a George Costanza vibe from the bass player.

[@tomcat3360]

'hep-cat' bass player Frank DiNunzio, Sr., of Hershey, Pennsylvania, who played his standup-slap bass almost until his death in February 2005.

[@greenvelvet]

Must be the grandfather of that wedding drummer, that played Sharp dressed Man by ZZ top

[@bigredracingteam9642]

Great job! (and wow, the Winter Sisters were awesome!)

[@KristerNielsen]

This is so surreal. It's almost like It's not real. Love the details and keep up the good work. The more we can preserve of history, the better.

[@howardcoles3537]

That is just amazing ! I especially loved Pansy and the lovely lady who appeared with Pansy. It was really funny and all the acts fascinated me !! Well done for sharing this !!

[@scottlewis4387]

Just think that the dancers at the beginning were doing all those flips on a hard floor, not the padded mats gymnasts use today. Impressive to say the least!

[@TheGeekMonster]

The sound of our grandparents' world. So strangely nostalgic and bittersweet

[@SelectCircle]

Our grandparents - if we're grandparents!

[@mymoonearthsun]

Yes!😩❤

[@fordhamdonnington2738]

Parents world. I came from an old family. So did alot of people who are still alive and well.

[@TheGeekMonster]

@@fordhamdonnington2738 Okay?

[@222MovieMan]

atleast from one country of that age

[@hackptui]

That bass player putting his heart and soul into his music, but not a sound is heard... yeah, that's a good metaphor for my life.

[@DJDGLM]

What an absolutely stunning enhancement. It almost beggars belief. Brilliant❤

[@MichiganExplorer236]

The girl singing with the four men was such a beauty.

[@OleSwingmeister]

At the 1944 date of the Glenn Miller Modernaires Soundiie recording and filming sessions, she was Mrs. Charlie Barnet, aka Harriet Clark.

[@hunterericson6782]

They agreed as they were all competing !!!

[@showalk]

So was the girl in the Pansy act!

[@therunawaykid6523]

@@showalk you got that right!

[@bukster1]

@@OleSwingmeister Harriet certainly was a beauty. I can't find much about her. Charlie Barnet was married eleven times so she doesn't show up on his wikipedia page. I wonder what happened to her? She could still be alive but would be about 100, so unlikely but not impossible.

[@kingdomofgeorgia1751]

What a great show and talented people. Made me smile for 10 minutes.

[@crescentgemini9093]

This! THIS IS WHY i LOVE TECHNOLOGY! It's not just a restoral, it feels A-LIVE, BABY! GREAT STUFF!

[@hzhz3469]

Thanks for sharing. Pleasure to watch

[@Mizerableklaha]

that girl who plays the bit with the horse is absolutely stunning

[@JohnAsquith-ey6ld]

u need glasses

[@ChrisJones-ij3xp]

She is ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

Yes she is, prettier than any girl I have ever seen in today's world. She looks a lot like a young Drew Barrymore.

[@ToshioHito]

Yes, she´s adorably amazing

[@alexchan3287]

0:27 That spin after the flip by the lady in the middle was so well choreographed.

[@XxBlueEyedxX]

I love the Winter sisters. Maybe it is just me but every time I see old photos and videos I get the feeling that every girl had this suuuuuper skinny, petite body type. Those three sisters are super fit and healthy but not in the "my legs are thinner than a broom stick" kind of way.

[@ohsweetmystery]

It's only the present times where people are body-obsessed. In the past, no normal people used to care.

[@Liusila]

I was wondering about that. Don’t assume they weren’t pressured just as much or even more to be juuuust the right level of plump. Do you think women who were overweight or boney were not made fun of back in the day? And it would have been openly harsh remarks or even physical abuse and might have been considered normal back then (war time).

[@leonie7754]

I feel too chubby but actually look at those women and realise I'm about the same as them and I wouldn't say they were chubby!

[@aboutfeddy]

Different standards 💖

[@JMarieCAlove]

They had the good thick leg muscles. Not thick as in fat but like most people who do gymnastics and acrobats, have to use their legs a lot. Girls in Gymnastics now, still get those strong muscles in their legs.

[@1001Hobbies]

Thank you for your time and effort that you put into this. It looks great considering when and how it was shot. I hope these performances never get lost.

[@SeaCrestInNOut]

I didn't grow up then, but the smile on those faces seem pretty genuine.

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

Pansy the horse is too funny!! The leg and eye-blinking/fluttering comedy really works!

[@Skywatcher68]

Annette Funicello did a variation of that act for Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue. Rather than a horse costume, they used a buffalo costume.

[@hestheMaster]

I must say that your computer colorization method is far more steady than another channel on YT that I have been watching Subbed! Well done VH!

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you :) I indeed use a special method to make the frames more consistent.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

They all use the same apps

[@hestheMaster]

@@randomvintagefilm273 The app directly changes B&W to color or is it user adjustable?

[@FungusMossGnosis]

Still looks like shit and is completely unnecessary.

[@zenpistoler0]

@@vividhistory2092 Mostly okay, but I was getting queasy from the wobbling background behind the singers in the second number. That's where I stopped watching. Would really prefer to have the option to watch the original. Please provide a link to where you got it.

[@tomwotton9]

Truly amazing! Thank you so much for doing this.

[@FGN666]

Love 🩷 the acrobatics dancers. Just 3 , Beautiful and amazing- talented girls . ..

[@RLJmusic4life]

This really brings out the styles, dedication, and pride of people back then. Excellent restoration and enhancement of the talents of our greatest generation. Well done.

[@jogibaerr50000]

This is sooo dense, so hypnotical, because its real - no movie. This stuff is so great, man...👍

[@climeaware4814]

1950s,1960s and 1970s was the best time in American history.

[@rosstee]

@@climeaware4814 But this was 1940’s 😉

[@1974UTuber]

Amazing colour restoration. So interesting to see what it would have looked like in colour

[@EmberwolfXR]

Its crazy, when your watching something this vivid, and relise how much we are alike...theres your great grandmother or grandmother who is just as (wow) as any young woman now!!!

[@imwelshjesus]

Your lack of knowledge and imagination is so so underestimated.

[@imwelshjesus]

@markjohnson7488 When it comes to any response to you, I suspect you maybe be correct.

[@davidmiranda4745]

Hopefully they turned out more sympathetic and loving in spite of the politics and views of other humans in those times, as my grandmother did not

[@keithbrown8814]

...but WAY more feminine (x1000) than today's women (2023)

[@davidmiranda4745]

@@keithbrown8814 Yeah, women aren't held as hostage as they were back then, so now they don't need to make as much up for toxic ass men anyways.

[@Madfattdeeb]

I really enjoyed this. Thank you for sharing it with the world. ❤

[@kirbyscurious]

He really slapped that cello! 😂 So awesome to see old footage not lost to time. Thank goodness we can restore these! :)

[@The_best_days_are_yesterdays]

That is a double bass. Cello is smaller, played with a bow, and the musician is seated. But yes I agree, he was killin' it! 🤘

[@tanhelmet]

Those gals were nimble, strong yet delicate. Awesome video

[@tonybarruk2]

Fantastic, there's something "uncanny" about the transformed version, but it's still amazing to watch, thank you!

[@madgebishop5409]

they are often running at a higher frame rate which makes the movement in them almost too smooth

[@briantrash]

The original frame rate has been doubled from 24 to 48. I appreciate the high definition of the image, but to artificially smooth the motion by having a computer interpolate frames is going too far. It's commonly known as the "soap opera effect", and it's a typical setting on modern televisions that videophiles despise. This isn't a "restoration", but a "transformation".

[@madgebishop5409]

@@briantrash yes exactly! The soap opera effect is very jarring in my opinion

[@danielbacca7980]

@@briantrash I was thinking that instead of doubling the frame rate, just increasing it by half might be preferable.

[@GrantTarredus]

I’m reminded of the old song that asks, “Whaddaya want for nothing, a rubber biscuit?”

[@reggievangleason9511]

5:15 There might have been a horse in the act, but my eye were distracted elsewhere. What a beauty!

[@Bevity]

What a bore to be a male, only focussing on the female form. As a female, I got to laugh at absurd Pansy without the distraction of the lovely you couldn't take your eyes off of.

[@johnhankinson1929]

i bet the horse performed when it got out of the costume and got her out of hers . what lovely legs she had

[@EaglePicking]

huh horse?

[@Bevity]

@@johnhankinson1929 The front end of the horse or the back end of the horse, or maybe both?

[@jtlanci]

Connie Haas :)

[@orangeziggy348]

I was thorough-bredly entertained!

[@hawkmaster381]

That bass player is having entirely too much fun! 😂😂😂

[@58christiansful]

Absolutely wonderful. And amazing restoration.

[@hotfightinghistory9224]

The knockout dancing alongside Pansy the Horse is drop dead gorgeous in any century :):)

[@vicsar]

🥂

[@EvilestGem]

Connie Haas is her name.

[@vicsar]

@@EvilestGem Wow! Some research skills! 🥂🥂

[@SnoopysVet]

knock out indeed

[@ManicMindTrick]

One of of Gods most precious creatures here in her full glory. Reminds me of the girl I was head over heels in love with as a young man. She was just as stunning.

[@Chadwilber]

This makes it so much easier to connect ourselves with the past.

[@01narrator]

the eerie silence when the camera focused on the horse was too funny

[@tubeorn0ttube]

The Reg Kehoe Soundie has long been a favourite of mine largely because of the bass solo so I'm delighted to see such a good job of colourizing it.

[@nigelcarren]

Heavens above!!! The elegant lady with the horse had everything bless her. 🌞 The last time I saw an elegant lady was 1999. I remember exactly where and when it happens so rarely! Amazing slice of history, thank you. 🇬🇧

[@jerimcgee]

That might be Virginia Mayo and the Mayos Andy and Florence

[@sg-yq8pm]

@@jerimcgee It's Connie Haas 1944, she died 2008, and she looks absolutely nothing like Virginia Mayo.

[@k_e_d_e_i]

What made the elegant lady in 1999 elegant to you? 😲

[@petesmitt]

@@jerimcgee yep.. that's Andy and Flo Mayo in the horse and Connie Haas is the trainer.

[@Bailaaaaaa]

That Bass player was Rock&Roll !!

[@ruthparker1140]

("Sgt.J."). Just barely heard some of those bass notes.😁✌️

[@ncorp2668]

Wow, can we talk about how bizarre that bass player was? I couldn't even hear any bass and he was performing like he was playing the world's greatest solo 😂😁

[@The_best_days_are_yesterdays]

Ikr. I was listening on a portable speaker and had to turn the volume WAY up just to check if he was really playing. He was, but I think the marimbas drowned him out.

[@damionkeeling3103]

Imagine how much better these will be when the purple filter is replaced by genuine colours.

[@joeconcepts5552]

Wow, aside from the color being a bit off, you'd think this was live video today! Great job!

[@walley2637]

My parents wouldn't let me go on the road to join an xylophone band sadly. everyone of those people are legends!

[@aucourant9998]

The girl with the 'horse' was so pretty. She could have made it in films.

[@randomvintagefilm273]

5 years from now we will look at this and be amazed how far colorization has come!

[@dwderp]

I sure hope so. I’m getting really tired of sickly purples and grays being called color restoration.

[@georgechilvers5086]

@@dwderp I completely agree. I colourise old black and white photos using Photoshop across the whole range of hues, and these purple and greys do my head in 😂

[@DigitallyRemasteredMusic]

@@georgechilvers5086 We didn't recolour this way in my day, I still dont. I use the traditional method of hand inking each frame (over 10,000 images). AI recolour is very poor in comparison to us artisan restorers and colourists. No one deserves credit for this video other than the programmers who coded the AI software. All this channel has done is load the file into software (probably TOPAZ LABS) and let it do the rest.

[@FightAgainstDogsPigs]

3:50 her name is 'Harriet Margaret Umbach' Born: June 17, 1922 Died: April 17, 2009

[@ToshioHito]

thanks

[@qohenleth4472]

That bassist is a rock star

[@GuitarBillCurran]

Before Rock 'n' Roll was even a thing!

[@ChrisJones-ij3xp]

​@@GuitarBillCurran He goes 1000% rock n' roll at about 9:04

[@ToshioHito]

Steve Harris grandfather lol

[@pacificostudios]

I've heard that one reason we don't have many recordings of old comedians is that many comics would say "If I get on the radio, they'll have heard my whole act!"

[@monkeyman123321]

Wow these girls are so beautiful and the color restoration with the crazy stage lights they used make them glow.

[@janegreen9340]

I love variety shows - this is brilliant.

[@pfffffffffft]

Dude going ham on the bass at the end was great, but I'm going to have to say the bit with the horse and fox is too hard to beat. Nice upload.

[@leereyno]

The bass player is proof that David Krumholtz is a time lord.

[@Alan..W]

Wow!! The 2nd performance and the 3rd with the horse the girls were absolutley beautiful, stunning!

[@HeatherB81]

I would love to hear the “behind the scenes” stories from the people in this show!

[@michaelterry1000]

I was about to make that same comment. I am sure that these depression era acts all have a story behind them.

[@jankk]

It’s like Vaudeville

[@liteney]

Nice old film. Found the record of this short in the US Library of Congress, as "Jazz on the Screen", 1944. Andy Mayo and his wife Florence played the pantomime horse Pansy, with Connie Haas as the trainer. The Winter Sisters performed in vaudeville shows to earn money after their fathers' premature death. They toured in the USO with Bob Hope during the Second World War.

[@michaelterry1000]

@@liteney Wow, thanks for the info.

[@michaelterry1000]

@@liteney From The Wikipedia article on Morton and Mayo In 1931 Andy Mayo recruited Nonnie Morton out of high school to continue the Pansy the Horse act with him and his wife, Florence Mayo. Nonnie took the place of Al Morton in the front of the horse and Florence acted as the horse's trainer. Morton and Mayo toured Europe in 1937 and in 1942 starred in Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe club in New York, NY. In 1943 Nonnie joined the army and continued his Vaudeville career raising money for war bonds

[@Domarius64]

The original has that fantastical old world vibe to it - the upscaled one is such a trip... I feel like I could talk to these girls after the show, actually walk on that stage, it doesn't feel so far away at all. It's cool to have both.

[@bigkk758]

The young lady with the fake horse was quite beautiful

[@hansscahdata6642]

Yes....The Word "Amazing" is absolute true. Simply amazing done.😮

[@vividhistory2092]

Thank you :)

[@Naftalinoff]

As someone who worked through a lot of vintage recordings I have to say that your restoration is very spectacular! No, "spectacular" is a huge understatement - it is genius! A common problem which I faced by myself with traditional filters is that when the noise is reduced and the picture looks nicely smooth you typically realize that small features on the picture have been smoothed away as well. This is especially harmful for appearance of human faces, of clothes etc. I observed this shortcoming even in plenty of videos claimed to be AI-restored. Your method apparently does not have this problem! All the small details are there, the facial features are sharp and natural, overall the video looks like it was taken with a modern digital camera! Congratulations! (Ok, some shaking is still there, but it does not disturb when watching and is not critical) I think such restoration would be especially valuable for dance, ballet and novelty acts videos. Those are visual arts and for them the picture quality is crucial for perception. Restoration of that level of quality could help to bring the masterpieces of the past to the modern audience.

[@kodfkdleepd2876]

It's because you are not using AI. Sheesh. AI does all the work. Eventually it will be able to "restore" old footage to modern quality to our eyes. But it changes the video and it can change faces or alter content in subtle ways. Now days one can simply run video through AI and have it do all the work. It isn't perfected tech as it can screw up faces, hands, etc but over time it will restore old video to hi quality so that we perceive it as being modern. They have software now that can do this already such as Topaz. The only problem is that it takes a long time to do a video and you don't know exactly the outcome so it might have to be redone or require some patching up but things will get better. Basically the way it works is that you take AI(a generalized machine), train it on modern video(turns it in a video processing machine), and then put in old video and it will turn the old video in to new video(you taught it what it was suppose to output). It's a little more complex than that but technology has made leaps and bounds. I imagine in a few years(assuming society doesn't collapse due to all the fraud in the government and corps) that we will see a lot of people restoring old footage to modern standards. It's amazing what it can do but remember that it does alter the original but it does it in a way, if it gets it right, that fools our mind into accepting it and that is ok because we don't care about the insignificant changes except maybe faces(it could change someone to different such as making their nose longer or whatever). It is likely though he didn't use the full blown AI software I'm talking about but mainly upscaling, smoothing, and colorization. If you don't know much about this stuff and are in to all those things I suggest you start looking in to it. AI is going to take over and when processing power, optimizations, and acceptance increases over the next few years we'll see a new revolution in this sort of thing(We are at the start of the AI revolution which will change how humanity works because we can now properly program computers to do whatever we want in a very simple way. We can make our own AI's to do whatever we want and all we have to do is train them(sorta like we do animals or machines but AI is more general, less work(you can automate the training so you just start it and then go do something else), and only requires the training to build such machines(with a little setup work). Also, once you have those things you have them for ever and can simply tweak them over time to improve them so it gets easier and easier to do better and better. Of course AI is being used for many other things and unfortunate bad things too(chat bots to manipulate peoples minds(works extremely well), the fraud market, politics, etc). [Also, AI can completely alter the footage. It can do things like change the textures. We will have the point where you could, if you wanted, change the hair styles or color or dress/outfits or whatever. AI is moving very fast lately and you should look in to it(it's important due to the fact that people that ignore this transition will likely end up at the bottom of the pile]

[@Naftalinoff]

@@kodfkdleepd2876 AI in this context means neural networks? Then the result must depend on the choice of traning sets and on their relevance for particular type of images.

[@kodfkdleepd2876]

@@Naftalinoff Yes, it does. It depends on a lot of factors. It depends on how you train the AI but they already have many AI modules that can do various tasks really well. But the thing is that once you get the setup done that does what you want, which might take several months or so, then you can apply it to almost all videos with just paying the cost of the computation(electricity). The point is that you no longer have to do it all by hand. AI isn't perfect so you will have to fix up certain things here and there but it's not like you have to go frame by frame. As long as the training sets are large, the NN's are configured correctly, and you can select for the desired result then you can do quite amazing things now. it might take a few years for the tech to mature but it will get there and is close already(depending on what you want). Doing coloration and quality up scaling is relatively easy. Also, what you could do say, if you had a lot of videos you "corrected" then you can create a specific AI that models what you have done and can repeat that process for you on new material automatically once you train the NN. It will likely be less robust unless you have a ton of training data to use. What the AI mainly does is simply add in "noise" that can fool us as humans. We don't care if the texture of a dress or wall is off as long as it looks real so the AI knows how to "repaint" pixels as to provide plausible results to convince our minds it is real at least most of the time. It's worth looking in to if you haven't done much with it.

[@Naftalinoff]

@@kodfkdleepd2876 It sounds like a lot of work! Indeed, I only did very primitive and basic video editing in my life. And now I feel too old to learn the new tools. Maybe someone else with knowledge and skills will colorize and clean the video of my favorite vintage comedy acrobats one day ...

[@IllusionSector]

Would you happen to know what solution could've been used for frame interpolation? I can't seem to observe much of the characteristic artifacting you'd normally expect from the process, which is all the more impressive given the high motion nature of the material.

[@idjles]

All of those girls are still younger than my grandmother

[@JCSAXON]

I’d have worn a spooky horse costume to follow Connie Haas around ❤

[@mzwere1]

Man those Winter sisters are fit, stunning dames for sure. I love how one of them has that extra bit cuddly plushness that a fella can appreciate when the weather turns cold. Seriously, I need a time machine, hehe! With all the lovely gals in this video I can see why no silly little blue pills were needed then.

[@SuperXzm]

The girl with the horse is so cuuuuuute!

[@olegpetrovskiy1583]

I thought bassist would break his contrabass in the end punching it along the floor

[@babsnadoy]

When the clip transforms into it’s remastered clip, I feel like the performers somehow suddenly looked younger than they were in their black and white versions. It made me a bit emotional. What I would give to have the chance to travel back in time and see for myself how simple life was back then. I’m sure it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows but simplicity is very interesting.

[@JMarieCAlove]

The last clip, the bassist would have been awesome at playing at a rock concert! Lol He was in his own world!

[@Nicodemus1971]

Wow…I was actually quite amazed at how entertaining that was. That horse routine was genuinely funny, even today.

[@erice7111]

Great restoration! I bet in the early 40’s those outfits would have caused quite a stir.

[@krtlkid]

Very classy

[@stephenindc9102]

I'll bet that the GIs in WWII appreciated The Winter Sisters. Amazing work.

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

that is bizarre. feels totally different. what a splash of colour and a stable image can do... looks like it could have been filmed yesterday. that's wild.

[@NIGHTGUYRYAN]

even the horse dances better than i do.

[@Save21]

awesome restoration 👏👏👏

[@kosiak10851]

After looking at preview, I was expecting to see actual horse that was improperly augumented with big eyes by neural nets.

[@dwellerrealm]

a purple contrabass looks absolutely natural for 1940s