Modern technology has made it possible to turn the legendary film “Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat Station”, often called the first feature film in history, into a modern short film.
Youtube user Denis Shiryaev, known on the reddit forum under the nickname Shir_man, has released his version of the film “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station,” Gamebomb.ru reports. This is one of the first production films in history. Denis Shiryaev used a neural network in order to improve the quality of the picture. Now the famous short film about the arrival of the train to the station can be viewed with modern resolution and frame rate. On Denis’s Youtube channel, the Lumiere Brothers movie is available in 4K 60 FPS. At the end of the video there are several frames with a split screen, which allow you to compare the quality of the original and the updated neural network version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RYNThid23g
The video was so liked by netizens that it quickly gained popularity, Gamebomb.ru reports. The number of Denis Shiryaev’s subscribers has risen sharply, so he told how the 4K version of the movie “Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station” appeared. It turned out that Denis is usually not involved in video, but recently he has become very interested in machine learning. He studied the topic of neural networks and began to do it himself. As a result, he turned one of the first films into a modern picture.
The Lumiere brothers film “Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat Station” was released in 1896. It is often called the first feature film, since the people on the platform were friends and relatives of the authors of the picture. However, 9 days before the premiere, the film “Watered Waterer” was already released. “Arrival of the train” has gone down in history forever, as the first showed on the screen movement in perspective.
