19th Century Life: Aran Islanders in Amazing Color
Time travel back nearly 100 years to experience the 19th century lifestyles of the Aran Islands in old Ireland. AI colorized and upscaled to 4K 60fps resolution with added sound.
The Banshees of Inisherin was filmed recently on Inishmore, the largest of the islands.
00:00 - On the beach on Inisheer in the Aran Islands 1929. A group of Islanders, men, women and children. Island cattle being taken to a waiting steamer ship.
00:19 - A group of women and men on the Steamer to Galway.
00:30 - More footage of men tethering a cow to a curragh on Inisheer beach 1929.
00:34 - Aran Islanders. Children and a group of men on the beach of Inisheer.
00:42 - On Inishmore island, a man chasing hens form his house. Some men and women dancing to some traditional Irish music.
01:02 - A group of Aran island children line the beach of Inisheer. Men tether a cow to be transported to a waiting steamer.
Film Restoration;
To recreate the colors of vintage 19th century era clothing, still being worn by the Aran islanders in the 1920s, I used the early 1900s paintings by Sean Keating as a reference. They tell many vintage stories. An excellent resource for colorized photographs of old Ireland is the book Old Ireland in Colour 1 & 2.
A long running project created by John Breslin. The second edition is now in print. Highly recommended.
1. Improved original black and white historical footage. removed noise artifacts.
2. Upscaled video resolution from 360 to 2k
3. Improved video brightness and sharpness
4. Increased fps (frames per second) from 24fps to 60fps.
5. Original soundtrack cleaned, separated and restored to stereo.
6. Ambient sound design added for an immersive experience.
7. Colorized using reference paintings of the period.
8. Remastered to 4K
As well as Deoldify I also use a newer deep learning machine called "Deep exemplar-based video colorization." It is time consuming, but worth the effort.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909
The Original BW Footage
The Movietone footage, supplied with the kind permission of the Moving Image Research Collection at University of South Carolina.
Irish footage outtakes - Shipping Cattle by Boat
Fox Movietone News Story 2-920
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/co...
Licensed Music by Erick McNerney/ Pond5 Licensed
The Aran Islanders 19th Century fashion
Sources include artist Sean Keating. He first visited the islands in 1914. The playwright John Millington Synge, author of The Playboy of the Western World., also talked about their clothing in his writings.
Women wore pinafore dresses, with calf length woven skirts or petticoats along with knitted shawls and wool sweaters. The Aran belt or 'crios' was a colorful affair.
The fabric was dyed using 'secret' recipes' from local flowers and plants in yellows, blues, greens and reds. In particular women favored red petticoats, paired with green, blue or yellow knitted shawls or jackets.
The men wore homespun trousers and waistcoats made of tweed. Their shirts, when dyed were noted in yellow ochre and indigo blues. Children of any gender usually wore dresses until they were a little older.
Footwear worn by Aran islanders were a type of calf skin moccasins, called 'pampooties.'
The Lost Culture of the Aran Islands
Money for rent was raised by harvesting kelp, and later farming cattle. Fuel for fire was mostly from washed up flotsam as well as turf. Food was grown in carefully tilled grass fields, which were fertilized by seaweed in stone enclosures.
Remote from civilization, unique in custom, the hardy Aran islanders eked out a tough existence from barren and rocky soil.
Having no harbor, the islanders drove their stock into the sea. They would then swim their cattle out to a waiting steamer. Held by ropes from the small tar lined traditional island boats named 'curraghs.'
Short History of the Aran islands.
There are three islands which make up the Aran islands. From west to east, the islands are : Inishmore ( the largest), Inishmaan and Inisheer ( the smallest.)
The first settlers were monastic. Enda of Aran built the Killeany monastery in AD 490, and for some time, Inishmore was a center of learning and asceticism. You can still find round dwelling places known as 'clocháns.' Similar to the round beehive houses seen in Star Wars on the Skellig islands. In all, there are about a dozen monasteries on Inishmore alone.
Early Settlers of the Aran Islands
During the Cromwell invasion, many people fled to the western islands. On the Aran islands they had to adapt to the harsh weather and frugal supplies. The population reached a peak of 3500 in 1841 which has declined to about 1200 today.
Under colonial rule, the islanders were made 'tenants' on the islands. This was deeply resented. In 1921 the Irish Free State allowed the inhabitants to purchase their land. Life on the islands was always hard. Electricity didn't arrive until 1973!
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