New York 1940s in Color!, Driving Downtown [60fps,Remastered] w/ sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of New York City 1940s , buzzing with activity, with the population of Manhattan almost reaching 2 million inhabitants. first shot is heading uptown on 8th Avenue. Madison Square Garden is on the left at 1:22, at 50th Street. 1:38 is 5th avenue, looking uptown, at 59th street. 4:55 seems to be a crosstown street, (which?) with many stooped apartment buildings, possibly midtown (Thx dvtvrich) Video Restoration Process: ✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second ✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD ✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness ✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate) ✔added sound only for the ambiance ✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,deblur) Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data. black and white Source video: Prelinger
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