Palm Beach Scenes - c.1920: Silent BW Footage Restored to Life
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- Time travel movie takes us back 102 years to Palm beach Florida in 1920. A group of high society friends relax by the seaside in the January sunshine.
Silent film AI colorized and upscaled to a 4K 60 fps video with added sound design.
The styles are amazing, and pretty much represents the high fashion worn by wealthier people in 1920. From the hats and turbans to the beach parasols and pretty summer dresses.
The men are pretty snazzy too.
Appearing in the film:
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Guthridge; Mrs. Charles B. Dillingham and Miss Marjorie Newton; Mr. and Mrs. Jerome N. Bonaparte; Mrs. E. Clarence Jones; Mrs. H. M. Baruch and Miss Simona Baruch; Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Meyer; Mrs. Morgan Belmont; and finally Miss Bonnie Boyd leaving beach house.
Published by GlamourDaze by kind permission of the University of South Carolina.
Their generosity and support in this restoration project is hugely appreciated.
AI restoration by GlamourDaze.com
Filmed January 22 1920.
Palm Beach Society personalities
Fox News Story 8226
Moving Image Research Collections.
digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/co...
Intro music: Contemplate The Winter Day by Erick McNerney. Licensed to GlamourDaze by Pond5
AI Restoration Process
1. Cleaned noise artifacts
2. Increased frame interpolation from 15 fps to 60 fps.
3. Increased resolution from 540p to 4000p.
4. Applied color using Deoldify ( Jason Antic) and “Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization”
5. Created ambient soundtrack for an immersive experience.
For more on “Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization”
See: arxiv.org/abs/1807.06587
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For one minute and twenty-nine seconds, I was transported to another time and place. A lovely little vacation from reality. Thank you.
That was wonderful. Thank you so much for your efforts and care with this small piece of history.
Those were times. Only white people were everywhere.
Today those beaches are full of black, brown, and Latino people.
@@oldi184 if you have to make everything about race, you're the racist.
Beautifully done. Nice touch to have Annette Hanshaw say "That's All", the way she did after many of her songs.
Eric van der Meer
@@oldi184
That was uncalled for.
“They lived, as we do, in the throbbing nerve-pocket of the now. They were anxious and unsure, bored and silly. Nothing that would happen in their lifetimes had happened yet. The ocean of time was crashing fresh waves, nonstop, against the rocks of their days. And like us they stood there, gasping in the cold spray, wondering what people of the past were like.” - Sam Anderson, writing for the New York Times
Beautifully written💖
And only a short while before... the Victorians had enjoyed their ways at the shore...some still on that beach watching the younger set in their wild ,new styles! Probably wondering..Where is the world going to!?
@@lorenheard2561 And before that the Native Americans. The Native Americans in the year 1290 were wondering about their ancestors from 1020, only nothing had changed at all. Now everything changes all the time. For the Natives time stood still for a long time.
Beautiful. We are indeed traveling into the future in a snails pace and eventually we'll be just like them...just ghosts on someone's computer screen reliving the past.
Michael, that painted a wonderful picture for me. :))
Nothing like cooling off by putting on a suit, tie and hat and sitting in the sun. Refreshing. 😆
I’ve never managed to cool off sitting in the sun.
In Florida of all places 😂
Don't forget to wear a string of pearls too!
My Grandad was still doing that in Yorkshire in the 1970s lol I’ve loads of photos of them on huge extended family days out. All the men have their trousers rolled up whilst sitting in suits, waistcoats and ties. Looks so odd lolol
@@thebigpicture2032 that's the joke ;)
Truly the days of glamor.
How well they dressed ! WOW 🤩
The clothing was beautiful back then, I’d love to dress like this someday even if just for a day!💕😭
Now if you go to the beach people wear as less as possible lol.
I love the women’s shoes - gorgeous!
So beautiful! And funny to see them sitting on the sand with no blanket or towel to protect their fancy clothes! :)
Also, Halloween is coming up - makes me want to search the thrift stores for some "olden days" clothes, and dress up, umbrella and all! :)
Do it! What’s stopping you? I’m obsessed with the 1950s and dress like a lady from that era all the time. I hope you also have that joy!
The elderly man with I assume his wife looked amazing. Reminds me of my great grandfather who would iron his shirt and wear a suit to walk down to the corner for the paper.
@wilsonserv If you look closely enough, you can tell his hands have noticeable tremors. Doing the math, there's a good chance he was a teenager during the Civil War. If you carefully look at how each of them behave, there are a few other interesting things about that moment on an afternoon, so long ago.
Reminds me of my Dad who would wear a suit to go to the bank & get lunch.
Он был аристократом по духу ,если не по крови.
The only thing that I don't like is that you feel that you are there and that you can just go for a walk about and enjoy the day with them, however you can't as you are in 2021.
100 years later. You don't often see men wearing suits on the beach these days or women all decked out including stockings, shoes, hats & jewelry in the sand.
So true, and they've improved the film by adding such vivid colours, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that this was 100 years ago, and these were real people, and not actors on a modern movie set! Mind boggling, but fascinating. :)
I know! I could cry! 😢
@@donnaduncan494 I did actually shed a tear thinking of my grandparents all the way over in the UK at the time, 9 and 13 years old respectively...
And how could they possibly have known that as they looked at the camera they would be looking at viewers from 2021?
No plastic garbage on that pristine beach. The pleasures of a non disposable society.
This is so beautifully restored. Looks like it was filmed yesterday. Thank you for what you do. 👏 👏 👏
Palm beach today still has no garbage.
No phones either...People actually looked around and spoke to each other
@@noahway13 before phones people had their heads in books and magazines. People have always tried to avoid conversation. How old are you? You don’t remember a time before mobile phones?
@@dariel7001 People did not walk down the beach while reading a book. They put the book down and walked. Now, they walk while playing with phone. They sit down and still look at phone. Someone speaks to them, and they answer while looking at phone. You did not hear of people back then being addicted to books or magazines like is discussed today about phones. Do you have enough brain cells to understand this?
Just horse poop and smokey old car engines.
The intensity with which the man on sand bottom left speaks to the girl hidden under the umbrella at 1.01…
a long forgotten conversation that was important at the time.
Such beautiful, feminine clothing the women wore. And their lovely smiles.
The days were dignity and self respect were still in fashion. I am so grateful to people like you, Working hard to preserve our history, It makes my heart swell being able to see them.
Back then, people didn't have access to a lot of the fabrics we use for beach wear. No spandex, polyester, nylon. That meant that once clothes got wet, they stayed wet and stretched out. As much as I love natural fibers and the styles of the time, I'm extremely grateful that my swimwear choices include those synthetic fabrics. I can't imagine swimming in wool was particularly pleasant feeling or smelling.
Bingo, their clothes when smartly tailored were a sight to behold but the truth is that we have very significantly better clothes due to petroleum. Being able to get wet and dry off extremely quickly is a huge boon.
I think that you are right to some extent and wrong to an extent. The idea that wool is unpleasant feeling and smelly shows that you clump all wool together regardless of weight, construction and fiber. As one who has deliberately benefited from wool many times in various outdoor adventures I can assure you it matters a LOT. Wool can hold it's own with any other fiber in the segment if dealt with properly (right kind of fiber constructed properly into a sturdy but lightweight cloth and then tailored into a well fitted purpose built garment). Not that I cannot appreciate the synthetics we drape ourselves with these days because I certainly can.
Right? Like the women @1:13 it’s a beautiful outfit but I feel so bad for her. haha
@@SaneAsylum soggy wet "i literally went swimming in this" wool is miserable and smells like dog, no matter how tailored or fine. It gets heavy and if it is knitted, as those old fashioned bathing suits were, it stretches out. It's fine and even preferable for other outdoor applications (socks, sweaters, blankets) for its excellent thermal properties. Washable wool (chemically treated in a modern process) even takes away a lot of the downsides as far as care is concerned. I'm a huge champion of natural fibers, but you seriously can't beat synthetics for some things. I'm quite happy with a swimsuit that doesn't get heavy and doesn't stay wet for days.
@@junipertree2601 I do appreciate you proving my points relative to you. My points relative to wool stand on their own.
These people were the rich elite of their time, Palm Beach has always hosted the upper crust during the winter months.
Still does... Less class, but still lots of money. West palm beach is another story. :-/
Yes I still go there today as an upper class individual.
@@bertiewooster3326 Nothing says class like Rivera beach right!😜
So what?
Black folks lived in Palm Beach first before they got forced out . Facts!
It’s like looking briefly through a lens with a view to 1920.
No odd, flickering images of people jerkily moving about - but people as “real” as those next to us right now.
Breathtaking,
Thank you for doing this.
Those outfits! Those parasols!!! 💕
"A bit of color" and it immediately looks real and approachable ... thanks for this great video. Simply beautiful to look at.
I love how elegant people were in those years.
Hats, pearls, stockings.. plopped down on the sand and looking comfortable. I'm amazed!
This is stunning. So well done. History is so interesting. Not to mention what changes happen in the matter of 100 years! Lol couldn’t be more different. Makes me wonder what people in 100 years from now will be like and think when looking back on videos of us now. (Hopefully we improve…)
Great comment 🌟🌿
@@kherise thanks ☺️
Depends. If people start taking responsibility for their actions like most of these people did, then yes.
@@BaronBoar I sure hope so…
It is an interesting concept to wonder how people 100 years from now would view something so specific as our beach activities. Will they have embraced public nudity by then and wonder why we bothered to cover up what little we did? Will they have gone the other direction and wonder why we willingly exposed our skin to UV rays? Will outdoor activities even be a thing, for that matter? After all, unless you're a surfer or the like, all you do is sit there, on the ground, maybe at one point walking to put your feet in the water, as if water is something special... Okay, falling down the cynical rabbit hole. Will people 100 years from now know what that means?
i just realized that you restore this footage yourself... whoa, mind blown. great job
Terrific, who could vote the thumbs down for this...The mind boggles. This restoration is truly amazing. Apart from the visual enhancements the painstaking way you have synchronized the pseudo sound is a masterpiece..... A wonderful film......
There are still some idiots around who object to b&w film being colorized. Which makes you wonder why they came here to look!
I didn't down vote anything and I have no problem with this being shown or it being colorized.
These old films are always strange though. And when enhanced the strangeness is also enhanced.
It's the bewilderment. Look at the faces. Fish out of water. Clothes on the beach. Never seen a beach before.
As the character they call Napoleon once supposedly said. History is a series of lies agreed upon.
The people in this reel are are actors playing roles. Showing new citizens what is correct and expected.
Now what's correct and expected is that you get vaxed and follow all directives of the totalitarian state.
Interestingly, Florida is one of the least tyrannical places now.
@@gmw3083 Have fun in the sun with your covid!
@@389383 Have fun with low vitamin D and your covid. Stay clueless and Law full. Believe everything the corrupt officials tell you. Get in line for your booster.
Someone who thinks it's too white, probably lol.
That was so impressive.. wow! :))
oh my this seems like traveling thru time and it feels like it is today and I wish I was there just for the experience because I love my time as a 67 year old 2021!
I love these!! ❤ so peaceful
Its just stunning, maybe born in the wrong century, all beautiful. Thank you.
Your awesome. Thanks for sharing...
The voices sound so natural. Great editing.
Beautiful work. Best one I've seen yet
Oh glamourdaze...You NEVER fail to amaze me. What a wonderful job you do in the art of restoration. Wow...You are just wonderful. You share the past with us and we appreciate it. Thank you. " That's All. "
Thank you so much!
The quality looks better than a 70's home video.
Its pretty amazing watching old films like this , it looks so unreal.
Outstanding...
I love the gloves. what elegance and style back then
When you bring it to life it’s really unbelievable! And very cool and shocking!
Wow this is unbelievable! Great job 👍
Another fabulous job
Who says a time machine can't exist. Here it is i went there and came back to the future. And its sooo cool
It’s amazing that they don’t mind wearing their beautiful dresses in the sand. It’s so relaxing watching these videos. Thank you for your hard work transforming these films. The people of that era become more relatable when the speed and color is changed.
Love that we can see the colors of their clothes. Thank you for this video.
Wonderful, reminding us all our time too shall pass, future generations will observe…..
Beautiful people in stunning clothes i like the lady at the end with the hourglass figure! ❤
She's still wearing the edwardian corset I guess. Might be because she prefers the look or the support.
The woman in the red jumper would certainly have attracted attention wearing that corset. She must have borrowed it off her mother -- that corset style is from pre-1900. What makes it look really odd is the jumper: Coco Chanel popularised knitwear for women, but it was not acceptable to wear knits back in the corset era (except for factory/ rural workers).
I think she was wearing a corset?
Absolutely unbelievable. What a treasure this is. ❤️
Gorgeous clothes, who doesn't appreciate a man who wears a suit to the beach! So we're still trying to leave the Edwardian styles and move forward to more modern clothing. You can see the older lady still holding on to her styling while the younger generation is raising those hem lines, except for the last lady who I think might still be wearing a corset.
Most of them are still wearing corsets, and if not corsets, then corselettes. The last lady was obviously a fan of tight lacing and narrow waist, but the style was over. The shaping underwear back then was about straight lines and narrow hips.
Who doesn't appreciate a man with sand in his suit?
@@mark8846 The last lady was a fan of the hourglass figure look, and it certainly works on her! Wow! :P
I was just thinking the other day, that out of all the channels I have subscribed to…this is hands down my favorite channel! And now you post this beautiful vintage video from Florida and I am only about 2 hours from Palm beach. 🏝 These videos make my day!! Thank you!! ♥️♥️♥️😊😊😊
I always watch these 2-3 times, paying close attention to the clothing and hair. Fascinating!
Красивые и утонченно элегантные люди прошедшей эпохи. Жаль, что сейчас таких редко можно встретить...
Loved the dubing.
Look at how well they’re dressed!!!! What a difference from today’s beach goers.
I feel sad when the ending says "that's all", I want to continue to watch, I can't look away!!. I also don't feel like much of a lady when watching this. I'm modest with my entire but these ladies bring class too a whole new level. It's sad to know most of these lovely people are gone now. I want to talk too each one of them, find out about who they are, I want to know more. 😉❤️
For so long we saw pictures from this era as fuzzy black and whites images that ran speeded up. This is eerily contemporary.
These completely change my views of history. I see it so differently now
Как подумаешь, что всех этих людей давно нет.. А они жили...любили...как и мы... ❤️👍😊
Im from Palm Beach so this is extra cool to me. That pier definitely didn’t last, everything now is industrial and hurricane proof!
Stunning!, Thanks.
Best possible time travel sequence......
You guys are making miracles bringing these videos back to life like this
Love this. People dressed better on the beach than what they dress for church or formal events now. 😢
Looks like it was filmed yesterday with an I-phone or GoPro. Lovely colours.
Exactly! Definitely fools the brain into thinking these are actors on a movie set or something, and not real people 100 years ago, long dead. Sad, but fascinating.
well that's overrated but it sure looks like a 50's-60's movie in technicolor. So a bit like the movie "the wizzard of Oz.
@@3DPeter clueless is your middle name but should be your first name. This is way above your pay grade anyways so best you just go back to the land of OZ. Wow
Beautiful, such a privilege to look back at these stunning images, so much happiness and simplicity
I love your videos I just wish they were longer they make me feel like I'm right there within the movie
If you take away the time and place, the fashions and other material things, you are left with something that will never, ever change; humans gathering together, seeking community, love and joy. From that perspective, the 1920s aren't all that different from the 2020s.
Thank you for posting these wonderful videos of days gone by!
Truly amazing. Anyone could be forgiven for thinking these films had been taken this year - they were that good.
This is amazing
I love the fashions and styles of that year ! You did a wonderful job with this !
Can’t think of a better way to use this technology. Not so different than us, were they? Culture, style, and innovations have changed.🤗
Once we’ll all be dead but we’ll not leave such a grace and beauty behind us.
I guess having a tan in 1920 was still thought to be that of an outdoor laborer and not of the pasty white rich. That being said, this video has the quality of something recorded yesterday. Well done. I love this channel.
If you stop and think about it, why would white people want to change color during the summer? We aren't birds with seasonal plumage.
@@JonFrumTheFirst No more so than black people would want to be white according to your plumage theory. Birds of a feather flock together unless the color differs.
@@user-qz9zu1fq9k Opinion noted.
there are a lot of tanning elitists in these comments which makes me wonder whether their minds are stuck in this era. Like why would someone be upset over what occurs naturally when you stay out in the sun? And if people like tans, well that’s well and lovely. Bringing class into it just sounded like jealousy from the pasty people who probably turned red instead of brown lol
@@urmom90210 "Like why would someone be upset over what occurs naturally when you stay out in the sun?"
You mean skin cancer?
This looks like the winter in Florida. You can tell by the last woman's outfit for sure. People are not uncomfortable in clothes on the beach at this time of year, we do have some cooler days down her especially by the water. If this was June-August these people wouldn't be on the beach like that. And since these are wealthy folks you can safely assume they are wintering in Florida as there was no air conditioning back then so living down here all year round was not for the wealthy, only for the workers. People didn't actually start living in Florida year round until air conditioning became widely available.
No one was perspiring. Not a bead of sweat on anyone's forehead.
Winter in Fla is beautiful
They’re call snow birds
In March 2018 we had a family holiday in Kissimee ( did the Disney thing) and it was a superb experience. On one day we went to a water park and it was slightly overcast, the temp had dropped by only 2 or 3 degrees...the staff were in tracksuits, jackets and beanie hats telling me how cold it had " gotten".
It was positively balmy compared to March in Lancashire , England where we are from...we had the whole place more or less to ourselves. No queues, no " come back in ten minutes" or anything like that.
Tje next day we went to the parks themselves and it was cracking the flags ( very warm) again.
Amazing that wherever you come from gives you a totally different concept of weather.
Superb video, brings these long dead folk to life again.
Good luck from England
@@bluetickfreddy101 Now they are called Snow Birds back then they were simply just called rich 😀
And yes it is beautiful down here in the winter. And the snowbirds are coming down earlier and earlier now a days. It's only October and Naples is full of them already.
It says this was in January, we do have cooler weather then, usually. Then again, one year it was 98 on my birthday. In February, lol!
What joy and calm at the same time, that really were people with really interesting lives, healthy, who appreciated more every detail of the world, not being consumed by new technologies.
If I had a time machine over there I would go.
Amazing stuff! The quality of these restorations is getting better and better! I'm particularly impressed with the coloring on this one. Very beautifully done!
sera que essas cores seriam reais da epoca , ou e feito na imaginacao do editor ?
So cool....looks like actors in period costumes. Really brings the past alive!
Interesting how everyone is pretty well covered up. This was before Coco Chanel popularized tanning. A tan then was considered "lower class"...it signified you worked in the sun.
Women then cherished their beautiful skin! In China they still do and beautiful skin raisers eye brows! I felt like I was in the video day dreaming thinking of all kinds of things as they must have thought. That long ago video is now in their lives and minds. Just like we are here now in another century thinking thoughts as they did but differently towards our dress and clothing, cheerful to be at the beach hearing the sounds of laughter, thinking of relaxing and enjoying family and friends as then as today. People might then had a lot of the same desires, laughter, remorse, desires as we have today.
Lovely to see beautiful white skin
Yes. The couple at 0:46 & the men at 1:08 are too dark-skinned.
god im so tired of this “worked in the sun” crap. everywhere you turn on the internet there’s someone telling you about how tanning means you’re a farmer and no one has grown out of the mentality in the modern era🤣 Let’s hope Asia get a Coco Chanel of their own then so they can stop discriminating against their own people for not being the colour of polished rice
@@-.Whiteness-.Witch-. they look pretty pink to me.
sadly, I hate to say it, most of these folks have passed on. RIP to them and thank you for your service to the ones who fought for our freedom.
Yes, time travel is real, Thank you for the glimpse...
These videos are awesome. It's as if you're actually there in the past. I really enjoy these. Thank you.
Love your videos. They transport you back in time if only a few minutes. Thank you for posting.
Realmente muy agradecido para ver el pasado como si fuese ayer, prestando mucha atención a las personas, modos y costumbres de esa época. Saludos!
Wow - this footage in colour is sensational. Fantastic job!
It's wonderful what the colour and clear footage do! Makes them so realistic, like we're looking through a screen of time travel. Much easier to view them as real. I just can't watch it enough.
I used to work in a film company and I am very glad that new techniques can enhance the old films to this high level. It is unbelievable and I love it. Thank you for all the efforts that you make.
Much love and respect from philippines 🙋♂️
Great quality, thank you! It really feels like time traveling 🤗🌟
Absolutely wonderful! and thank you for sharing this video with me and many others.
Great work! Seems like such a long time ago now would love to be back in Florida then to experience what it use to be like before all the mass development.
They had no idea that 100 years later their descendents would be living in a dystopian hell hole.
Yep, you can thank the _tribe_ for that.
Carl Marx you can’t stop evil ....
Radicals don’t die they multiply!
@@kmg501 they sank the titanic too.
Iceberg.
You realise the 1920s was a horrifying shithole for the majority of (non-rich) people unlike these layabout wankers? 😯
@@peterpiper5064 life then,as now,is what you make it.
Lived in west palm beach most of my life, crazy to see something so close to my doorstep!
They all lived their lives and are gone now. Just as someone viewing videos in 2121 will see us all today and we'll all have lived our lives and be gone.
One of the reasons why people were dressed to the nines was that this was filmed on January 22! (1920).
It's amazing to see how my state and county looked like in 1920s feels really cool to be able to see this!
It's wonderful to see such class and elegance.
You time Machine'art is a big gift to entire humanity. Tks❤
Beautiful job with the video! Here are some of the people in the video and a little about them:
0:09 - Jerome Bonaparte, great-grandson of Napoleon's brother - he was offered the Albanian throne in 1921
0:23 - Eileen Dillingham (a former dancer in the Alla Nazimova dance troupe) and Marjorie Newton
0:26 - Mr. and Mrs C.W. Guthridge
0:32 - Mrs. H.M. Baruch and Miss Simona Baruch, Simona married Edgar H. Myers in 1929
0:58 - Margaret Francis Andrews, socialite, was in D.W. Griffith's film Way Down East with Lillian Gish in 1920
1:05 - Charles Dillingham, theater critic for the New York Post, was one of Harry Houdini's pall bearers, at the funeral he said "Let's see him get out of this one"
1:10 - Miss Bonny Boyd
How do you know?
@@iansoutryer3189 Because I'm a time traveler. The raw footage is from the University of South Carolina, which provides much of the information. I have a video elsewhere on CZcams discussing New York Jewish high society (Baruchs, Warburgs, Gimbels, etc.) in Palm beach in the 1920s that utilizes this video (although not with the wonderful upgrades that this channel provides).
Here's the link: czcams.com/video/NQdhqbJGIZs/video.html
@@hatalatesting6476 Thank you so much for providing all the additional information on all those characters. So it is apparent they all were figures of the day! Makes them come alive even more.
I've taken the liberty of giving that link in a comment further up.
A time when we were more civilized . And Florida was a Beautiful Jewel of a State . Both times have passed sadly .
"More civilized"? In some ways yes, in other ways, no.
@@italia689 More civilized (at least in appearance) for those who could afford being so.
So many orange orchards then!🍊🍊🍊
I don't know but when I see videos of the past my eyes are such a bit of tears
I adore those seasons 💞💞💞
TRULY AMAZING. Viewed like this.... makes everything appear just like us today... simply with different styles and older stuff. People.... just like us. Families just like ours. THANKS
Good old roaring twenties, video is a time machine.
Outstanding conversion! But - I cannot imagine going to any beach dressed like that! Here in Vancouver we have a major beach where they definitely do not wear formal attire like this. In fact, they wear no attire at all. It's called Wreck Beach, at UBC. (University of British Columbia)
I went to a convention at UBC in the late 1990s when I was a graduate students. We walked down to that beach for a lark - and hoping to see whales. Our eyes were almost burned out. 😨 Two or three naked late middle aged men pleased to show themselves off. Make it stop!!!
THIS IS DONE SO WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE CURRENT DAY WITH ACTORS IN COSTUME ! WELL DONE !
Wow! I really felt like I went back in time! Omg I love videos like these 😍 (I live in North Palm and I just couldn't imagine them not being hot under the sun with all that clothing on lol).