1920s New York Flappers | Saks Fifth Avenue 1927

Time travel back to 1927 for an immersive experience of 1920s New York. Chorus singers and dancers from the Earl Carroll Theater on Broadway. We join them for a stroll past Saks Fifth Avenue and St Patrick’s Cathedral on East 50th Street NYC.

1920s New York flappers - 1927 film
1920s New York flappers – 1927 film – © University of South Carolina.

Created in association with the Moving Image Research Collections. GlamourDaze have up-scaled, colorized and sound tracked an old silent outtake. Part of the Fox Movietone Film Library preserved by University of South Carolina.

Watch New York Flappers in 1927 – AI Enhanced Film

Broadway girls on a stroll past Saks Fifth Avenue NYC on a March day in 1927.

AI restoration by Glamourdaze.com
Original Footage courtesy of Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.
Title: Chorus girls in NYC–outtakes.
Filmed March 11th 1927.
(Fox News Story B8972.) Fox Movietone News Collection.

Two chorus girls walk arm in arm down 50th Street NYC 1927 © University of South Carolina

AI Upscaling – Colorization – Frame Interpolation Process

  • Cleaned noise artifacts
  • Increased frame interpolation to 60fps.
  • Increased video resolution to 4K
  • Applied color using Deoldify and “Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization
  • Created ambient soundtrack for an immersive experience.

Find out more about “Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization.”

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