This Animation Was Created Using Old Photos from the Early 1900s

[demmiblue]

Here’s an amazing short film titled “The Old New World” by photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia. Zakharov found old photos of US cities from the early 1900s and brought them to life.

The photos show New York, Boston, Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore between 1900 and 1940, and were obtained from the website Shorpy.

It’s a “photo-based animation project” that offers a “travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine,” Zakharov says. “The main part of this video was made with camera projection based on photos.”

Via: http://petapixel.com/2016/04/06/animation-created-using-old-photos-early-1900s/

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. Amazing

Thank you for the link

[pintobean]

2. Cool!

[alcina]

3. Wow! That's so beautiful!

Thank you for posting it.

[sarge43]

4. That is amazing.

Love the steampunk book of memories.

[FSogol]

5. Way cool. See People's Drugstore (Wash, DC) at 1:04?

Thanks for posting.

[Octafish]

6. Wow!

Outstanding work. Alexey Zakharov is a genius.

Thank you, demmiblue!

[demmiblue]

8. Amazing, isn't it?

I was hoping for more pics from Detroit, lol!

[klook]

7. Genius.

This is gorgeous - thanks for posting.

[allan01]

9. !!!!!!!!!!

[Silver_Witch]

10. You had me

With the steampunk beginning. This is awesome work.

[drm604]

11. This is fantastic.

The animation is amazing. I think current technology isn't quite there yet in rendering people, some of them don't look quite real, but that's not Zakharov's fault. He did an amazing job with this.

The day is coming when real actors will no longer be a necessity.

[liberal N proud]

12. Incredible piece of work/technology/art

[Hiraeth]

13. just lovely. really beautifully done. kudos to all involved. thanks for posting it, demmiblue.

[blackspade]

14. Incredibly well done.

[certainot]

15. fantastic

[intheflow]

16. What's up with the 1931 date on the front of the "album" cover?

No woman was wearing hoop skirts in 1931 yet every woman depicted in the animation was dressed like an extra from Gone With The Wind.

Other than that, pretty cool. I saw photos from places I recognized in NYC, Boston, and DC. And I loved that there were a number of dogs in the animation.

[Kalidurga]

17. Bumping because this is awesome

And I didn't see it before.

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. Yeah, WOW!

[Phentex]

19. very cool!

thanks for the link!

[annabanana]

20. What fun! . . .n/t