A short film from 1902 of a German suspended railway called the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, shot in 68 mm, colorized and upscaled in 4K. It shows an unusual drone-like view of a German city at the beginning of the 20th century. [MoMA]

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1. The Cost-benefit factor here does not add up.

2. Beautiful its a shame not many of these exist

3. Is the original available somewhere as well? The upscaling and colorization makes it look more than CGI than actual footage in my view.

4. Wuppertal had it before North Haverbrook! And look at them now.

5. Very nice. Got that steampunk/Ghibli vibe.

   I know it is not steampunk, I just got the feeling of it.

6. u/savevideo

7. Feels and looks far more future-esc than modern times.

8. I see people walking, few horse chariots (counted eight horses), and a tram but interestingly I see no bikes. Riding a bike did not seem common those days.

9. fuck. Imagine germany if Hitler never came to power.

   What a marvel of Architecture and history preserved.

10. Can someone fly a PoV drone along the route to get a comparison of then and now?

    Loads of little details I’d love to dive into – kids with a toy that looks like a huge set of wheels.

    It’s interesting how the AI couldn’t cope with the flying birds, and how it treated them!

    Also strange to think that all those people going about their lives would be completely unaware that in 122 yrs time, someone in another country would be watching them and making comments on an internet forum, watching them on a flat screen from a data serve somewhere in the cloud, streaming the video of them doing their everyday business.

11. Saw a suspended monorail segment on bbc the other day.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0h7xczy/the-schwebebahn-germany-s-spectacular-flying-train

12. Must’ve been wonderful having this thing right next to one’s house

13. amazing footage!

    edit: found a side by side comparison to today (2015)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TqqdOcX4dc

14. I think I locked up Deadshot in one of those

15. Idk why but these videos always look like ai and a historybook crossbred in the prototype of unreal engine 5

16. surreal. the monorail looks/feels way too futuristic for its time.

17. I can’t imagine how unbelievable it would be to see this at that time, especially if you came from the countryside for the first time in the city or something like that

18. it reminds me of the game “myst”

19. I knew a rapper from Wuppertal, his name was *Schwebe Schwebe*.

20. It’s no exaggeration to say WW1 and WW2 set European civilisation back by 50 years.

21. Germans keep their stuff nice and tidy. I like that.

22. Morning mister Freeman,

    looks like you’re running late…

    but seriously though, the movement of all those people, especially the first ones. Look like a bunch of npc’s

23. Idk how I feel it being over the river though. Little too industrial looking

24. What an extreme amount of infrastructure for such low capacity system.

25. Looks like Dishonored 2 to me

26. It’s still there. I have traveled with it.🥴🇸🇪🇯🇴🇺🇦

27. Cities sure were nice before the mass adoption of cars, huh

28. Unbelievable

29. Without context I’d swear this is AI generated

30. Looks like a tieser of the new Bioshock game.