Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "NASS" channel.

  1.  Hector Hernandez  : Well, duh... obviously! It says so in the above text and in the beginning of the video. My point was that the colourisation operator did not choose the colours intelligently. No computer can know what colours cars came in. It is up to the operator to find out. He didn't bother. As I recall, greens and maroons were popular back then. Reds and maroons render dark in black and white film, especially reds, if orthochromatic film was used. Vivid blues come out almost white on ortho film, however few cars then were blue. Panchromatic film, which gives a balanced black and white image almost identical to a colour TV or computer image with the colour turned right down, wasn't common until after the War. This is another thing an operator must understand and correct for, if he wants to do a good job.
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  2. @Proper : Yes. To get colourisation right, the operator needs to understand that the grey scale in ortho film is not correct, as ortho is blue sensitive and ignores red. With pan film, not widely used until after the war, the grey scale is such that all you need to do is add a likely tint to each object until it and its shadow looks natural. With ortho film that method won't work. Of course, even with pan film, you or the AI need to know or intelligently guess what tint to add. With trees it's obviously green, but with cars it isn't. The sound in this series of old films is pretty sloppy too. In this film of Burbank it isn't too bad, it just sounds like the view point is the back of a low geared truck. But in other films it is laughable - just a sloppy careless mix of sounds from a standard sound effects CD - the films would be better without it.
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  3. Very interesting scenery, but hilarious! All car horns were blipped with the exact same rhythm, and all cars are purple, even the (then) old ones. I don't think paint manufacturers mastered making a really good lasting blue or purple paint until after this time period. In fact, Ford (at least in Australia) was still having trouble with purple paint in the early 1970's - my mother bought a purple Ford and it had to be resprayed a few years later.
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  4. I forgot to say that this video has all car horns sounding on the exact same tone and pitch too! And a lot of them would have had klaxons, which sound quite different.
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  5. Nice footage, very interesting. But the added in sounds effects, obviously from a standard sound effects CD, are a bit bizare in places. The horse sound is a constant speed clip-clop regardless of how fast the horse is going, or even stopped. All drivers in 1940's New York do the same horn rhythm farp-farp...farp-frap.. farrrrrp apparently.
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  6. Finally! Cars are not all purple, and the sky (except between the telephone poles) is blue! Still got the daft repetitive sound though.
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  7. Why are nearly all cars purple? I don't think that would have been the case. If you were to compare a typical suburban street in Australia of the same time period, you would see that Australia was very poor, third world, in comparison. Nice street in Burbank, lots of trees, various house styles that look nice, lots of garages for cars. When I was a child in Australia (1950's), our house had no electricity, as was the case with most in the street. Only one house in our area had a phone - when someone took sick, a kid was sent to run to the house with a phone to ask them to ring for a doctor or ambulance (which took 30 minutes to come). Gravel roads everywhere, only 30 km from a capital city. Now, Australia has caught up, we have everything, and our road surfaces (bitumen) are much better maintained than the roads in this video. America has not improved.
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  8.  Hector Hernandez  : Yes it was - it shows you what the place was like back then. I assume from the poor roads this was not a particularly well to do town, just middle income, but the houses and trees are very nice.
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  9.  Hector Hernandez  : Yes it was - it shows you what the place was like back then. I assume from the poor roads this was not a particularly well to do town, just middle income, but the houses and trees are very nice.
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  10. I should have pointed out that the washed out smoky appearance of the sky indicates that ortho film was used. Of course, it could have been an overcast day.
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  11. I meant to add: .. but its not overcast , because the shadows are distinct.
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