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Civil War Veterans Playing Instruments (Live With Sound) - Enhanced Video [4k, 60 fps]

This believed to be the only known video clip with sound of Civil War Veterans playing their instruments. Only 32 seconds exist. It's likely either from the 1929 GAR Encampment in Portland, Maine (Sept. 8-13), or from the 1938 Reunion in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which had both Union and Confederate soldiers in attendance and occurred between June 29 and July 6.

For this video, I colorized it using AI optimization software, interpolated it to 60 frames/second, up-scaled to 4k, speed-adjusted it and refined it with De Blur, Sharpness and Stabilization.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F4q36KnnFCs

Description Civil War Veterans Playing Instruments (Live With Sound) - Enhanced Video [4k, 60 fps] >This believed to be the only known video clip with sound of Civil War Veterans playing their instruments. Only 32 seconds exist. It's likely either from the 1929 GAR Encampment in Portland, Maine (Sept. 8-13), or from the 1938 Reunion in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which had both Union and Confederate soldiers in attendance and occurred between June 29 and July 6. >For this video, I colorized it using AI optimization software, interpolated it to 60 frames/second, up-scaled to 4k, speed-adjusted it and refined it with De Blur, Sharpness and Stabilization. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F4q36KnnFCs

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wow if they fought as good as they played, that would be why the war lasted so long

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YouTube recommended the following.

Two ladies in around 1950 whose grandfather fought in the revolutionary war

https://youtu.be/vDfQLKIMGHY

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Grandfather had 23 kids! Lol! And the last around age 70! Life was so much different back then.

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The sound doesn't even remotely correspond with the picture. Watch the lips of the piccolo player.

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Back in the day there was no magnetic tape attached to the film. Yes, it would have been nice if the author could have aligned audio/video a little better. It seems like he went overboard on the rest - 4K and 60FPS but couldn't align audio/video better.

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I'm not buying it. The sound recording technologies of the late 1920s did not have a wide frequency response, a high dynamic range or such a low noise floor. There is no drop out typical of early recordings and there is no discernable wow and flutter. Without precise mechanical timing in the recording mechanism, the pitch and tempo would be all over the place since the speed of the recording would not be stable for proper playback. The audio has too many red flags to just accept as real.

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Yeah, i've watched a bunch of these from different uploaders.

They just take audio from an online audio file archive and adjust speed , pitch , tempo etc to replicate what they think matches as best they can.

Same as the bs colorization AI, simply guesswork and basically faking what the actual colors, shades and textures are.

Take a photo of something with multiple colors (a large book case with dozens of different colored books ) or a scene with several different shades of different color, make it black and white and run it through an online colorizer app a number of times. Which one is the correct one - if you didn't already have the original ??

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I have no idea what the author did technically to resolve these audio issues.. You could ask him how he overcame these issues in the comments on the video.