What's Old is New

Franklin and surrounding communities were well chronicled in moving pictures from the 1930s to the 1960s in the highly professional, 'amateur' films created by Franklin resident Stanley Chilson.

Many of those pertaining to Franklin can be viewed online, including at the Internet Archive.

Sections of some of the earliest films, originally created in black & white, have been adopted and thoroughly improved by someone only publicly known as "NASS" and seemingly located outside of the USA.  Self-described as someone who 'loves to restore and upscale old videos with neural networks, enhancing them with modern software tools, stabilization, speed correction, sharpness enhancement, noise removal, dust and scratch removal, with AI-based `colorization,' and plausible ambient sound added.

The result, for now only about 10 minutes in duration (we hope more may come in the future), is impressive and brings alive the Franklin of the 1930s with astonishing fidelity.

Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc64ZaQXX6s