Dug up from the archives of The Museum of Modern Art, a YouTuber has upscaled a video from 1902 depicting a ride in the German ‘Flying Train’ into glorious 2021 detail. The train, which still operates to this day, takes you on a virtual tour over what is now Wuppertal and shows the life of people in the 1900s as if you were there.
Capturing spectacular views of horse-and-carriages, children playing in the streets, and the River Wupper, the footage captured is of great interest to historians, who rarely get a film as detailed as that captured here.
The incredible footage was transformed by YouTuber Denis Shiryaev, who is well-known online for colorizing and upscaling old footage to give a modern glimpse into lives lived long ago. Denis is the CEO of neural.love, a company that improves footage quality and increases the smoothness using neural networks and AI. Notable footage they have improved is that of the Apollo 16 Lunar Rover ‘Grand Prix’, and various trip