Rick88888888
250K subscribers
Hi, I live in Leidschendam, The Netherlands. The main purpose of this channel is to provide restored historic film footage, primarilly from before WW-II for viewers to learn from and enjoy. A lot of historic film material has been digitized with outdated scanners, resulting in wobbly, faint and blurry footage. Nowadays a lot can be achieved as regards enhancing such footage by means of sophisticated software tools, including Artificial Intelligence. This involves motion-stabilisation, speed correction, contrast, brightness and sharpness enhancement, noise reduction, dust and speckle removal, and upscaling to HD with A.I. and recently even colorization! It is my hobby to get the best possible film restoration results, using my 15 year long experience and knowledge in combination with the latest software. Most films on my channel have undergone a paintstaking and time-consuming four-stage process before uploading the results to youtube. Many of my films are accompanied by CC captions.
Stunning restored & colorized photos of old Rotterdam before WW-II brought to life (1880 to 1940)
Rick88888888 · 149K views · 10 months ago
How a Fokker WW-1 plane was manufactured in 1918: Splendedly restored and colorized footage
Rick88888888 · 277K views · 5 months ago
A wonderful trip through Shakespeare's land in 1910 in colour! [A.I. enhanced & Colorized]
Rick88888888 · 236K views · 5 years ago
Stunning footage of the construction of New York's Empire State Building in color (opened in 1931)
Rick88888888 · 10M views · 4 years ago
Extra-ordinary footage about Rotterdam on and after the German bombardement on 14 May 1940
Rick88888888 · 22K views · 9 months ago
Spectacular D-day in super HD and color: Commemorating 80 years of D-day, 6 June 1944 - 6 June 2024
Rick88888888 · 1.7M views · 2 years ago
Amazingly restored Dambusters footage, with spectacular scenes of the bouncing bomb trials (1943)
Rick88888888 · 1.5M views · 1 year ago
Celebrating 80 years VJ Day in London (15 August 1945-2025) with stunning A.I. enhanced footage
Rick88888888 · 17K views · 1 year ago
Stoomtrams in Nederland in de jaren '20 in kleur! Steam trams in Netherlands in the 1920s in color!
Rick88888888 · 392K views · 5 years ago
Amazing: The Titanic knocks a funnel off a tugboat when leaving Southampton harbor [A.I. generated]
Rick88888888 · 16K views · 2 years ago
Splendid footage of the Dutch Army during WW1 in 1917 in color! Part-1 [A.I. enhanced & colorized]
Rick88888888 · 78K views · 3 years ago
The liberation of the Dutch city of Amsterdam in 1945 in color! De bevrijding van Amsterdam in kleur
Rick88888888 · 126K views · 4 years ago
The liberation of the Dutch city of Rotterdam in 1945 in color! De bevrijding van Rotterdam in 1945.
Rick88888888 · 64K views · 4 years ago
The Construction of Brunel's Amazing Tunnel Under The Thames between 1825 and 1843
Rick88888888 · 7.4K views · 2 months ago
Spectacular colorized film of the beginning of the German occupation of The Netherlands during WW-II
Rick88888888 · 7M views · 3 years ago
Stunning restored footage of the Japanese Surrender on the USS Missouri, today 2 Sept. 80 years ago!
Rick88888888 · 1.3M views · 1 year ago
How The Netherlands rose like a Phoenix out of the ashes of the Crisis Years and WWII [AI colorized]
Rick88888888 · 22K views · 1 year ago
Beautiful South Limburg (NL) in the 1920s in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized]
Rick88888888 · 142K views · 4 years ago
Beautiful Alkmaar (NL) and its Cheese Market over 100 years ago in 1922 (A.I. enhanced & colorized)
Rick88888888 · 17K views · 1 year ago
Stunning restored and colorized footage of the British evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940
Rick88888888 · 47K views · 4 months ago