I colorized, restored, and created sound design for this rare footage showing Baltimore, Maryland between 1958 and early 1960's , capturing the city’s public transportation system, including buses, streetcars, and streets, as well as shopping centers, train stations, a nighttime drive through downtown, and other notable locations, including a historic scene from the 1958 snowstorm
Video Restoration Process:
FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
Image resolution boosted up to HD
Improved video sharpness and brightness
Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
sound design added only for the ambiance
restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
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.
Opens with that man and what maybe 8 books he's carrying (no backpacks back then). Loving the mix of cars. I wonder what that "new construction" looks like today. Are they still standing? Good to see the cabbies not driving like lunatics. Cops directing traffic, no whistles. People out shopping. Ladies wearing their scarfs on their heads, hats were phasing out. Today, no thank you on that Hijab. I'm American. I'd like to think those city structures are still in operation. Beautiful architecture. 7:45 mark has that guy holding a doll of some sort -- why? A cluster of Nuns at the train station. B&O trains. Oh my. That was A LOT of snow.
Thank you so much, Mel, for the trip down memory lane. Life in America. I totally enjoyed it.