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Believe it or not, this entire clip required just 45 keyframes to get it right. 17 initial keyframes- one per scene- to get the base scene colors established. A blend of automated and manual colorization. And then the rest are auto-generated from that and minor corrections made.
A small clip from the classic Western movie "Angel and the Badman," originally released February 15, 1947. Restored & Colorized via Recuro Media (in 30 mins).
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#VeteransDay2022
#BlackSoldiers
1/3 It's more than just a day off from work or school.
Until 1954, Veterans Day was known as #ArmisticeDay & only recognized #WorldWarI veterans. #WorldWarII veteran #RaymondWeeks (the #FatherOfVeteransDay) had the idea to expand Armistice Day to
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From “Old Ireland in Colour 2”
Free State generals: Eoin O’Duffy, possibly Barra O'Briain, Michael Brennan, Fionán Lynch, and WRE Murphy
Limerick, 1922
Photographer: WD Hogan
Source: @NLIreland
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KLM Flight 633 was a passenger flight from Amsterdam to NYC. On 5 September 1954, immediately after takeoff from refuelling at Shannon, the Super Constellation Triton ditched on a mudbank in the River Shannon. 28 people were killed in the accident.
@openbeelden CC BY-SA
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As seen in "Old Ireland in Colour 2":
Workers on the steps of Liberty Hall, Dublin
Saturday, 6th December 1913
Delia Larkin is front centre with the Irish Worker headline
Source: flickr.com/photos/nlireland/… @nlireland
Machine and hand colourised/restored (@DeOldify, @Photoshop)
'[Women are] weary of...toiling to fill the pockets of unscrupulous employers.’ When her brother James was imprisoned in October 1913, Delia Larkin (d. #OTD 1949) increasingly became the public face of Liberty Hall & frequently spoke at rallies. dib.ie/biography/larkin-deli… #DIBLives
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Sir Roger Moore and Carole Bouquet in this colourised pic from For Your Eyes Only. A Bond legend, a UNICEF hero - today would have been his 95th birthday. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #sixtyyearsofbond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
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Behind the scenes on the chess set (ahem) of From Russia With Love - 59 years young! Here D. Bianchi, I. Fleming, L. Maxwell, L. Lenya, S. Connery. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #sixtyyearsofbond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
This is so important. Basically, default to being skeptical of any set of metrics you have until you’ve thoroughly compared them to how humans evaluate.
This isn’t just for AI either.
Sometimes….often… there just isn’t a substitute for human judgement.
✨New preprint✨
Zero-shot GPT-3 does *better* at news summarization than any of our fine-tuned models. Humans like these summaries better. But all of our metrics think they’re MUCH worse.
Work/ w/ @jessyjli, @gregd_nlp. Check it out here: arxiv.org/abs/2209.12356
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Trespassers indeed! Colourised promotional photo from LALD. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
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Commander James Bond CMG RNVR (colourised) or as we know, Sean Connery on what would have been his 92 birthday. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
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Thanks to #DanaKelley of #DeOldify for the shout out in a recent article on @boredpanda. Read the rest on nannyjack.com
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John Glen gives Roger Moore the direction of travel. And probably didn’t tell him the tank was nearly empty! (Just fly across the border Roger, you’ll be fine… ) Colourised Image. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
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#MondayMotivation
#RealPhotoPostcard
#SpiritualMessenger
Rev. Henry Sweaney (c. 1836-1913)
Active in #WashingtonDC, #Maryland, and #Virginia (#DMV)
#BlackHistoryisEverywhere
#NegroHistoryDetective
#ArtifactualJourney
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This is why metal and hats are a bad idea. Especially when you’re in a gold vault. A colourised still of Harold Sakata, alias Oddjob from Goldfinger. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
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#LetTheChurchSayAmen
#AMEChurchHistory
#EbenezerAMEChurch is the 2nd oldest Af Am congregation in #HagerstownMD founded in 1840 by #RevThomasWHenry (1794-1877). He pastored the church for over 40 yrs and & possibly buried underneath the church.
Colorized by @DeOldify
Here's a great sampler video @RecuroMedia put together both our video colorization work with them, as well as many of their own amazingly effective video restoration filters. It's all fully automated. youtube.com/watch?v=tlP_8mGf…
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Alison Doody reading the script of AVTAK (colourised as usual). If you zoom in you can see that the page covers the scene where Bond and Tibbet sneak/break into the stables at night. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
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The #HugoAwards are nearly a month away. In honor of the 80th #scifi #Worldcon and Hugo Gernsback's monumental contributions to our modern world, I rendered a #colorized, superresolution portrait of Hugo from DALL-E mega tiles.
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Between Thunderball takes. Maybe a coffee? Medium sweet. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
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Daniela Bianchi and Sean Connery (colourised) boarding a BEA flight during filming of From Russia With Love. #bond60 #60yearsofBond #jamesbond #deoldify #bondtwitter
























