great video of times gone by

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[Max Demian]

Do you mean "when dinosaurs ruled the Earth"?

[jon_t]

Not many aliens then.

[jim.gm4dhj]

just the odd darky

[Brian Gaff]

Don't be daft, he cannot be that old.

I remember somebody telling me that modern AI systems were capable these days of taking those very old movies that ran at slow frame rates and making them look smoother and in some cases in colour. IE as long as they knew the placement of every pixel in each frame, it could add 'tweened' frames in between. Also if somebody coloured all the objects and the light source was known, then really reasonable colour rendition was possible. Of course this was not instant, it could take a very long time to do it, but nonetheless it has been done with historical footage. To my mind though, what are we seeing here? I guess you could argue that tweening was reasonably accurate, but colour? Nobody was probably still alive from those days to know if it was right or not.

Brian

[wasbit]

24 Square Miles

The film was commissioned in October 1945 but grew out of a survey carried out in 1943 by the Oxford Agricultural Economics Research Institute. The study was based on 24 square miles of north Oxfordshire to the southwest of Banbury.

[Chris J Dixon]

Here is a rather clever bit of film:

"A digital reconstruction of Eldon Street, in Barnsley town centre, in the 1960s, showing how the street has changed. Featuring views of the Victorian Arcade, Barnsley Market, the Civic and the Odeon cinema (now the Parkway). Created by Dextra Visual working with Barnsley Museums and Archives as part of the Eldon Street High Street Heritage Action Zone, with support from Barnsley U3A. With additional thanks to the Tasker Trust for the use of their wonderful collection of historic images of Barnsley Streets."

It is much closer to my mental picture of Barnsley than what exists now.

Chris

[Tim Lamb]

Pretty much how it was here. No mention of using prisoners of war for agricultural labour. We had both Italians and Germans. They were very kind to us kids. Big change was London overspill housing in the early '50's.

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[JNugent]

Ray Gosling, who later fronted a section in the Granada local news magazine which I think was called "On Site".

[Andrew]

Never saw one in the town where I grew up (pop 50,000).

[jon_t]

I remember it very well, I see there were several cars I had at the time.

[Cursitor Doom]

Great days.... great days. Sigh.....