Time travel to the real Babylon Berlin of the roaring 20s. AI colorized 1927 film, restored w/ sound at 4K 60fps. Glamorous 1920s flappers, fashion and Berlin cabaret club dancers.
00:00 1920s Berlin at 8 am. Shop window blinds reveal fashionable mannequins as the metropolis awakens.
00:13 A train pulls into Berlin Friedrichstraße station. We hop on a tram to the city center. We stroll amongst Berliners on the Kurfürstendamm sidewalks.
01:04 At noon we have lunch at the Hotel Excelsior. A brief thunderstorm forces umbrellas open. Fashionable women in furs and cloche hats walk along the Kurfürstendamm. There's a brief glimpse of a 1920's fashion show.
01:49 At dusk, the real Babylon Berlin of the 1920s comes to life. At the El Dorado bar, a group of women and men are already partying.
02:16 Cabaret girls apply their makeup and fix their bobbed hairstyles before a show.
02:26 On with the Gatsby flapper dresses and away to Clärchens Ballroom and dancing the Charleston.
In the 1920s, Berlin was the capital of the Weimar Republic. The city experienced a cultural and artistic boom known as the "Golden Twenties." 1920s fashion was characterized by more streamlined silhouettes in clothing. Berlin's flappers wore skirts with shorter hemlines, bobbed hairstyles and everyone had a more bohemian attitude towards gender expression.
The roaring twenties cabaret scene in Berlin was famous, with venues like the Kit Kat Klub and the Eldorado. Performers such as Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, and Kurt Weill entertained audiences with a mixture of music, comedy, and political satire.
However, the Weimar Republic was plagued by criminality, economic and political instability, and ultimately disappeared under the rise of fascism.
This is an AI restored edit from Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis 1927 by Walter Ruttmann
AI Upscaled and Colorized by Glamourdaze. Sound design by Glamourdaze.
The acclaimed Babylon Berlin is a fictionalized portrayal of the city during this time, but it captures the energy and atmosphere of the real 1920s Berlin and is a visually stunning tribute to the era. A crime drama set in 1920s Berlin, starring Volker Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries. The series takes place during the Weimar Republic and delves into the decadence and corruption of pre-Nazi Germany.
The colorization process used Deep exemplar-based Video colorization.
arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909