We thought it would be fun to run some classic Carshalton images through an AI movie generator and the results are fascinating. We uploaded two static images and offered prompts to bring the photo alive.
These are the results.
1. Prompt: “Create several elephants standing in the pond, with some birds swimming on the water and flying in the night sky”
A rather large and scary elephant appears from Pound Street to get a coffee at Honeywood.
2. Prompt: “An old horse and cart travels along the main street. A few victorian dressed people are walking along the pavement”
Clearly cropped together from other old photos, but it does create quite an evocative solution.
3. What location would you like to see? And what prompt would you use? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll recreate our favourite suggestion here – assuming we get any suggestions that is!
A few related links
The Sanger’s travelling circus elephants that stopped off at Carshalton and Ewell
Bringing Old Carshalton Photos Back to Life Using Incredible New 3D Technology
Wow , that’s good fun ! I’m sure it all really happened!…
Yes, just a bit of fun and very easy to do. The black and white image we were trying to recreate a feel of old Carshalton – an interesting experiment. This is still early days of AI.