[4k, 60 fps] San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906

Hi, this is Denis, welcome to my channel and thank you for subscribing. Modern machine learning algorithms make amazing things possible nowadays While playing around with different neural network stuff I ended up building a pipeline of several neural networks in order to do video upscaling In my work, I use DAIN for frame interpolation ESRGAN trained on a custom dataset for frame upscaling and DeOldify for video colorization All these algorithms are publicly available feel free to google them anyone can experiment with them if you are familiar with a terminal and have a modern GPU Today we will time travel to San Francisco in April of 1906 a video upscale which has been heavily requested by you, the subscribers 4 days after this video was shot the earthquake and fire killed an estimated 3 000 people and destroyed over 80% of the city of San Francisco As a source video, I have used an amazing video from Mike Upchurch also, I have used his audio reproduction so, please credit him for the immersive audio I have spent almost half a month processing this video because of how slow the algorithms are So I want to say a big and sincere thank you to all the people who have already donated to my channel your help is really appreciated. If you want to support my work you can find the paypal link in the first comment where you can suggest a new video for upscaling So, have a nice time travel experience and one last thing don't forget to manually switch the quality of the video to 4k if you have compatible hardware.

Channel: Denis Shiryaev

Views: 3,332,961

Rating: 4.9382434 out of 5

Keywords: San Francisco, 1906, usa, old, upscale, machine learning

Id: VO_1AdYRGW8

Length: 14min 22sec (862 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 09 2020

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[u/pbd87]

He mentioned the earthquake that destroyed most of the city 4 days later. This movie only survived because, by chance, the makers mailed a copy to their New York studio the day before the earthquake.

The makers of this movie also made another movie, including another trip down Market St, 1-2 weeks after the earthquake. That footage was mostly lost for a long time, but found at a fleamarket in 2017. So you can see the difference, with most of the buildings gone, rubble everywhere, etc.

You can read the story and see some excerpts here, the PBS story linked shows some side-by-side views of the 2 movies.

https://blog.jumpstartrecovery.com/1906-san-francisco-earthquake-video-footage/

[u/seniorwings]

Ok holy shit folks really did not mind jumping out in front of streetcars back then either

[u/Quesabirria]

This is actually a staged shoot -- so it's not actual traffic from that time.

The film records a total of thirty cable cars, four horsecars, and four streetcars. At first there also appear to be many automobiles; however, a careful tracking shows that almost all of the autos circle the camera many times—one of them ten times. This traffic was apparently staged by the producer to give Market Street the appearance of a prosperous modern boulevard with many automobiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_Down_Market_Street

[u/DFParker78]

Everyone in this video is dead - that’s what always goes through my brain. Great video!

[u/[deleted]]

That was cool, apparently driving has not improved much in 100+ years

[u/bananafest_destiny]

That was fascinating. I would like to see more of this kinda stuff from this guy (his info is at the beginning of the video)

[u/ModernContradiction]

The amount of people almost getting hit by moving vehicles is fascinating, ha.

Also, for me it seems that playing it at 1.25 speed is more accurate

[u/p2thejay]

Many people died crossing streets back then. In reference to the Brooklyn Dodgers, this was considered a feat when crossing the street unscathed. You had all contemporary modes of transportation; trolleys, horse drawn carriages, cars on top of no crosswalks, no street lights, no speed limits, no turn/changing lane signals, and no lanes!