[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
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Published 2020-08-08
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đ Upscaled with neural networks footage of "Wuppertal Schwebebahn" shot in 1902. Btw, the train system hasnât changed much and still functional. The "Schwebebahn" was built mostly over the river to save space.
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â Upscaled to 4K;
â FPS boosted to 60 frames per second, I have also fixed some playback speed issues;
â Stabilized;
â Colorized â please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
âč Note: Contrary to the text at the beginning, the city "Wuppertal" didn't yet exist in 1902. Back then, these were a handful of seperated cities and towns called "Elberfeld", "Ronsdorf", "Cronenberg", "Vohwinkel" and "Barmen". These cities were united in 1929 under the name "Barmen-Elberfeld" and were renamed into "Wuppertal" in 1930, according to the fact that the cities are located around the Wupper river.
đ An interesting fact about that train system:
Tuffi was a female circus elephant that became famous in West Germany during 1950 when she accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper underneath.
On 21 July 1950 the circus director Franz Althoff had Tuffi, four years old, to travel on the suspended monorail in Wuppertal, as a publicity stunt. The elephant trumpeted wildly and ran through the wagon, broke through a window and fell ~12 meters (39 ft) down into the River Wupper, suffering only minor injuries. A panic had broken out in the wagon and some passengers were injured. Althoff helped the elephant out of the water. Both the circus director and the official who had allowed the ride were fined.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi
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All Comments (21)
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Dear subscribers and viewers, please excuse me for a glitch on the right side of the video, it is not a problem of neural networks, but my mistake in the final render. In the future, I'll avoid this problem, sorry for that đ
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This looks like some alternate universe and not the past... it's so weird ._.
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i feel this is the closest that we have to a time machine
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The more I learn about the past, the less advanced the present seems. In some ways I think they were even more sophisticated.
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Wuppertal actually has a museum that now actually offers a Vr experience of that. You get seated in an old traincar, get Vr googles and then get the entire train ride simulated as if you were driving through 1922 Wuppertal.
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Less than a minute in and my brain canât handle this. This video looks like something from the future. So artistic and incredibly beautiful that I struggle to believe itâs real and over 110 years old.
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Germany in 1902 was more developed than some countries today
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The fact that this still exists today is mind blowing
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Who else wishes there was a time machine to go back and experience these magnificent times again?
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The thing is even 118 years later, riding on this floating train feels like a very unique experience (I visited Wuppertal 2 years ago). Futuristic too but the steel beams that support the system look vintage. Overall it feels like something out of a steam punk fantasy.
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Do you ever see some random person walking in one of these videos and wonder who they were? What their life was like? Just me? :)
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The most amazing thing about this is seeing how tranquil it looks with roads that are not clogged with thousands of automobiles.
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Knowing Wuppertal today it is insane how different the city looked and felt back then. We may have gotten bigger and more efficient with our building, but damn have we lost any sort of aesthetic aspirations for our buildings in the process...
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Its only a few generations ago really. My grandfather was alive at this time (1894-1967 RIP). Life goes by quick people, from 0-20 seems an eternity, once you hit 30 every year is a flash.
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Why does this look more futuristic then today? I don't know why, but it looks so fascinating.
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Just wow, I have never had a video move me more than this one. Being able to peer back in time and see a 120 year old society cleanly and freely carrying on their daily lives and routine, oblivious to my omniscient gaze flying through the sky of a grand and marvelous city. The architecture is breathtaking, the streets were immaculate, the population sparse, the water clean. I truly felt like I traveled through time. What an amazing marvel of human ingenuity and expression.
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The city of my mom's birth, Sept. 14, 1927. We went back together in 2002. Much has been lost over time. It brought back memories for her. It also turned out to be her last trip back to the old country. Once she came to the US she never looked back. Beautiful video, much nicer in 1902. She and my grandparents would have enjoyed watching. Thank you for posting.
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could these passers-by think that someone would look at them after 118 years on ... the phone
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OMG! 1902! I am completely astonished by how advanced Germany was. Super awesome work!
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The flying train and its infrastructure feels so retro-futuristic even in today's standard. Feels like another reality.
