Scenes of Vancouver, Canada 1942 footage restored in Color [AI Colorized, Denoised, Upscaled, 60fps]

History in Color
History in Color
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Published 2020-10-04
The original black and white film shows various scenes around Vancouver. The first half of this film documents a Gray Line Tours bus trip through Vancouver and second half contains scenes showing landmarks of Vancouver and surrounding areas. Film contains footage showing: Empress of Japan Figurehead in Stanley Park, U.B.C., Chinatown, Hotel Georgia, Lion's Gate Bridge, Court House, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Capilano Golf and Country Club, Prospect Point, Stanley Park, views of downtown and North Shore Mountains from Little Mountain, City Hall, sailboats in Burrard Inlet, and Swimmers at Kits Beach. Restored it to color using Neural Networks.

* Colorized using AI.
* Denoised video to remove dirt and grains.
* Frames interpolated to 60 frames per second.
* Resolution upscaled to Full HD.
* Added sound for ambiance.

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Original video: searcharchives.vancouver.ca/seens-scenes-of-van-co…
Note the original video is in the Public domain. Please check the link for the license information.

Music: Blue Danube (by Strauss) from YouTube Audio Library

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All Comments (21)
  • @HistoryinColor
    If you liked the video, please hit the subscribe button to watch more historical videos in color every week.
  • @jacobrocks7
    Wish I can go back and load up on real estate
  • @robertchoutka3191
    The VIENNA WALTZ is an awesome musical accompaniment to this film ! WELL DONE ✌
  • @barnhall4395
    Nice video from back when Vancouver, and for the next 3 decades, a great city which the world did not know existed. From a native "Vancouverite" older that the video.
  • @joepalooka2145
    Ah yes, the good old days when Vancouver was a great port city, laid back and beautiful and wonderful to live in and visit. It was like this up until the '80s and Expo 86. Then it all went downhill. Now it's grossly overcrowd and congested, with outrageously high real estate prices and out-of-control condominium development everywhere. All the night life that Vancouver was famous for is dead and gone, taken over by condos and real estate projects. The East End has become a terrible centre of drug addiction, crime, poverty, and homelessness. Compared to how great it used to be, Vancouver in 2022 sucks.
  • @Autostade67
    Loved the video but being of a certain age I keep thinking audiowise I should be seeing a spinning space station and a Pan Am spaceliner; thanks for giving me a new sense of my hometown.
  • @canman5060
    Vancouver was very British in those years.
  • @VazzVegas
    Back when the city had character. Now all you see is glass and it all looks the same.
  • @sng1867
    I sometimes wonder if we can bring people from this video’s era to the Vancouver of today, how much would they trip out? What would they recognize?
  • @maxruedy951
    Hard to believe that was only 20 years before I was born here.
  • @DaTripper
    Imagine selling all the city and making it unrecognizable.
  • @chesterjackson666
    It used to be the best kept secret in N.America and the world. Then came Expo86 and later the Olympics. With these two events came the egotistical preoccupation about having to become a world class city.