i Colorized, restored, and created a sound design for this video, which offers a rare glimpse of everyday life in Oklahoma during the 1920s, showing thriving Black communities in Wellston, Okmulgee, Sapulpa, Drumright, El Reno, and Oklahoma City. The film captures busy streets, local stores, schools, churches, and neighborhoods filled with energy, resilience, and pride. Through these scenes of work, worship, and daily life, we see a generation building opportunity and unity amid the challenges of their time — a timeless portrait of progress and community spirit.
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)
added sound 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.
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- Variety
Everybody in this is looking so poised. Gentile. All the ladies dressed so pretty for class and their hats. The men, gentle souls. The ancestors of today's generation. I'm sure these folks would be shocked. All those kids are happy going to school for their education. Today, the radical loons in the Teachers' Unions could care less that 96% of the kids coming out of 8th grade can't read. Keep our children uneducated and you can control them. Stunning. How far we have fallen. Elections matter.
Plus, I had no idea we were going to attend a funeral. That was surprising.
Thanks for the experience, Mel. Greatly appreciated.