🇮🇩 Kali Besar in Batavia in the Dutch East Indies in 1938
(current day Jakarta, Indonesia)
Input: original photo
-> img2img with Nano Banana "restore old photo"
-> then img2video with Kling 2.1 Master with ChatGPT-generated video prompt
-> then video2audio with MMAudio for background sounds
I think we'll have years of fun being able to finally interpret somewhat accurately the imperfect drawings people in human history made
And show how it actually would have looked if we had cameras then!
This is nano-banana with map input prompt: "full colour photograph. New Amsterdam in 1660. make sure it's full modern colors as if it's a photograph taken today."
This is old Dutch fortress of New Amsterdam, in 2025 the place in New York City where the National Museum of the American Indian is built on exactly that location!