Around this time MyHeritage released an AI photo animator. I didn’t want to use someone I knew, dead or alive; that would be too weird. So I grabbed an image off ebay and gave it a go.
Unknown woman, c.1900, photographed at Arundel St, Portsmouth
Here’s the result:
It’s fake, but it successfully creates an emotional reaction. It has a lot of the same problems that colorized photos have, with a dash of something extra on top. Ho hum.