1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Before & After [4K Colorized]

Описание: Witness history restored. This 4K 60fps colorized documentary footage with added sound reveals San Francisco's vibrancy before the 1906 quake and the haunting ruins left in its wake.

In early 1906, San Francisco was a booming metropolis of 400,000 people. This restored footage strips away the grain of history, revealing the chaotic energy of Market Street in stunning 4K. You can almost feel the rush of dodging cable cars, horse-drawn carriages, and early automobiles. The added sound design transforms silent shadows into living, breathing people, removing the barrier of time.

The contrast that follows is devastating. The aftermath segments reveal a landscape of skeletal ruins and smoldering fires that looks shockingly modern in its destruction. Seeing the rubble in color shifts the perspective from an abstract historical event to a visceral human tragedy. This isn't just archival film; it is a digital time machine, allowing us to walk the streets of a lost city and witness the resilience that rebuilt it from the ashes.


How silent documentary footage is colorized and brought to Life

I take early fragments of silent 16fps footage and restore them to life by a combination of manual frame-by-frame colorization as well as the use of deep exemplar-based video colorization techniques. The footage is upscaled and the frames interpolated to a higher frame rate ( in most cases 60 frames per second.) Finally, I produce a soundtrack which helps build a new immersive experience for the viewer.
Together, these processes revive old fragments of footage, offering audiences a more
vivid and engaging glimpse of lives long since lived in the distant past.

The colorization process used Deep exemplar-based Video colorization.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909

Original Silent Footage:

Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
Prelinger Archive
https://archive.org/details/TripDownM...

The San Francisco disaster
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/00694433/

Exploded gas tanks, U.S. Mint, Emporium and Spreckels Bld.
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/00694426/

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