1895 - Workers leaving factory, restored in color using DeOldify AI. (HD 720)

Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon (French: La Sortie de l'Usine Lumière à Lyon), also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. It is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made so i though it wold only be fitting i would try and use it as my first public attempt at video colorization.

The Lumières presented their invention with a screening on 22 March 1895 in Paris, at the "Society for the Development of the National Industry", in front of an audience of 200 people:
the first clip they presented was:
La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (literally, "the exit from the Lumière factory in Lyon", or, under its more common English title, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory), 46 seconds, which is being shown here.

if you want to have a look at the original video, please check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEkSgM_GhJg. Make sure to set the resolution to 720, to best the best experience.

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Note:
Even though I used various open-source machine learning models and techniques to try and enhance the video, I want to particularly give credit to the model of DeOldify, which was used for colorization with (in my opinion) impressive results.

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