The-Flying-Train-1902- Wuppertal Suspension Railway in Germany - in 480p (see pinned coment)

This explains a great deal.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/434861


Originally shot in 68mm film..... WOW


Medium
Digital preservation of 35mm film, derived from 68mm film (black and white, silent)
Duration
2 min. at 30 fps
Credit
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1939
Object number
W19606.2.AV
Department
Film

https://www.moma.org/calendar/galleries/5521

https://www.moma.org/collectio....n/works/103075?sov_r

https://www.moma.org/calendar/galleries/5384

The French poet Charles Baudelaire voiced the sentiments of many when in 1863 he called for artists to abandon historical subjects in favor of the present moment. “Modernity,” he wrote, “is the transitory, the fleeting, the contingent.”

Newly invented lens-based technologies like photography and cinema were perfectly suited to capture the spontaneous pleasures of everyday life. As a product of the Industrial Revolution, photography was modern from the start. Much like locomotion and electricity, it introduced a new way of seeing the world—a form of vision mediated by machines. Some artists, awed by the speed of railway travel, depicted the blurred landscapes they witnessed from train windows. Others favored domestic interiors, using newly available gas and electric lamps to flood their scenes with light. Still others wandered the city, photographing and filming its dazzling illumination as dusk fell.

Organized by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, and Clément Chéroux, Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator of Photography, with Kaitlin Booher, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography, and Dana Ostrander, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography.



Jesus Fuck - here it is with speed correction, colourised and with synchronised sound, from the same modern railway all more or less exactly at the same timing.... in 2010p60 - Fuck - This is brilliant.

"The original 2-minute black-and-white was released by the Museum of Modern Art and shows “aerial” views shot from a suspended train, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. It’s surprisingly clear because it was shot on proprietary 68mm film by the American motion picture company Biograph.

“For many years our curators believed our Mutoscope rolls were slightly shrunken 70mm film, but they were actually shot on Biograph’s proprietary 68mm stock,” MoMA writes. “Formats like Biograph’s 68mm and Fox’s 70mm Grandeur are of particular interest to researchers visiting the Film Study Center because the large image area affords stunning visual clarity and quality, especially compared to the more standard 35mm or 16mm stocks.”

Denis Shiryaev of Neural Love then took the original footage and used a neural network to upscale it to 4K. He also colorized it, stabilized it, slowed it down to better represent real-time, and boosted the frame rate to 60fps.

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn railway is still operational today."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQs5VxNPhzk

Very good!