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Description: Time travel back to London's Piccadilly Circus in 1945 at the tail of WW2. We see so many young men and women in American and British uniforms. The film has been enhanced using AI deep learning techniques and we added a soundtrack for a more immersive experience. Piccadilly circus is a famous road junction and public space in London's West End. Known for its large illuminated signs and video displays mounted on the corner building on the northern side. The term "circus" means 'circle' or roundabout. Built to link Piccadilly to Regent street. It also connects to Shaftsbury Avenue, Haymarket, and Coventry street which leads on to Leicester Square. Piccadilly Road is home to Fortnum & Mason among others. Piccadilly has inspired several works of fiction, including Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the books of P. G. Wodehouse. The street had been named for Piccadilly Hall, where a tailor named Robert Baker had prospered selling the fashionable broad lace 'piccadill' collars popular in the 17th century. In its heyday, the main attraction at the circus junction was the Trocadero, which housed the London Pavillion, now long gone. You can see the entrance to the theater just around the corner. The camera is filming at No1 Piccadilly, just on the corner. Back then it appeared to house a tobacconist called L Hill & Co. The iconic statue of "Eros" in the middle of the junction was removed for safety during the war, but you can see its base in the background, which was boarded up. In the classic 1981 horror movie An American Werewolf in London, Piccadilly Circus forms the pivotal location for the movie's unforgettable finale. Original silent 35mm footage held by the Internet Archive in the 35mm Stock Footage collection. Uploaded by AV Geeks. archive.org/details/35mmstockfootage Used under the CC BY 2.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This was the AI enhancement process: 1. Removed artifacts and noise. 2. Interpolated new frames ( from 24 to 60fps) using the DainApp, to add depth awareness 3. Upscaled the original 480p film to 4K resolution using Topaz Video Enhance AI and Vidcoder. 4. Created ambient soundtrack Keep your comments respectful. Hateful speech will be deleted and users banned