Beautiful Gibson Girls c.1899 Film: Brought back to Life

Time travel back over 120 years to Pittsburgh c 1899 - 1904 to a mesmerizing group of women clocking out from Westinghouse Electric factory. The real Gibson Girl from silent film to 4K 60 fps colorized w/sound with facial recognition.

Filmed at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cinematographer G.W Bitzer. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

The Gibson Girl

The Gibson Girl was the epitome of the American progressive era fashion in America - the ideal feminine figure. The name was attributed to artist Charles Dana Gibson who's pen-and-ink illustrations from the 1890s helped cement the chic look.
This AI restored footage is a chance to see the Edwardian era fashion of American working women in color and 4K clarity. The trumpet skirts and blouses and pompadour hairs were the staple daily style for women. These ladies also wore stiff corsets. It can't have been easy.
I particularly love the little purses many of the girls carry.

AI Enhanced 4K 60fps film by Glamourdaze.com

Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization - Bo Chang & associates
Read the teams paper on deep exemplar based video colorization here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909

The AI Film Restoration Process:

I take early fragments of silent footage ( in this case at 15fps ) 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 to 4K and the frames interpolated to a higher frame rate ( 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 silent footage, offering audiences a more vivid and engaging glimpse of past lives long since lived.

Silent footage held by Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/96522103
Citation:
Bitzer, G. W., Camera, American Mutoscope And Biograph Company, and Paper Print Collection. Girls taking time checks, Westinghouse works. United States: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.