[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1918) WWI, The Battle of the Lys and the Escaut. 11 November, Armistice Day.

The Battle of the Lys and the Escaut was the third and last phase of the Second Battle of Belgium (French: 2ème Bataille de Belgique) or the Ypres-Lys Offensive, and took place in Belgium between 20 October and 11 November 1918. Armistice came into force at 11:00 a.m. Paris time on 11 November 1918 and marked a victory for the Allies and a defeat for Germany, although not formally a surrender. Fighting continued up to 11 o’clock, with 2,738 men dying on the last day of the war. Music: Officium Defunctorum (Tomás Luis de Victoria) Classic films and historical footage as never seen before. New editions, restored, colorized and enhanced using traditional editing techniques complemented by the most recent advances in artificial intelligence applied to video and sound processing, including: Footage edition. Motion stabilization if needed. Analysis and reduction of noise and artifacts of the initial footage. AI FPS interpolation: realistic recreation of intermediate frames by AI algorithms, from 15 - 25 fps, depending on the initial footage, up to 50 or 60 fps, achieving a great feeling of realism. AI assisted upscaling: up to 4k, in several iterations, dramatically improving original detail. AI assisted colorization: also in several iterations. Manual color and levels grading and correction. Adding soundtrack. Videos will necessarily be brief since each minute of final result involves approximately 5 hours of manual treatment and 10 hours of heavy gpu computer processing.