According to the video\u2019s YouTube description, the DeepMind team discovered a batch of 1800s photos at a thrift store and then fed them to a LoRA fine-tuned image generation model, in this case Google Imagen<\/a>, to create new images in the same style. <\/p>\n The three-minute movie follows the format of a Charlie Chaplin-era silent movie from the 1930s. Title cards appear on the screen with a music score, which is also AI-generated, playing in the background. <\/p>\n The odd story follows an inventor, Francis, and his wife Edith as they sail to a new world and find \u201call manner of strange creatures.\u201d It is all a little Metropolis (1927) by Fritz Lang. <\/p>\n The DeepMind team revealed that, in addition to using Veo 2 Image to Video to bring the stills to life, they also used Gemini to come up with prompts and motion ideas. <\/p>\n Lyria 2, an AI music generator, was used to make the soundtrack and the entire film was edited in Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. The background for the title cards was generated on Imagen. <\/p>\n Despite their efforts, plenty of commenters weren\u2019t impressed by the video. \u201cI really do appreciate the effort that went into generating\/producing this, and you (and we) should definitely keep trying \u2014 because this is pretty terrible on multiple levels,\u201d writes Cosmic Lettuce. \u201c1925 movies are at least three orders of magnitude better both in terms of content, quality, and production.\u201d <\/p>\n It is still early days for AI video, and while silly short videos<\/a> are doing okay on platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts, AI video is yet to be taken at all seriously in long format. <\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TheGreatVoyage-800x450.jpg\")
<\/a>The images all have a carte de visite quality to them, an analog format popularized in the 1860s that features washed-out sepia tones. <\/p>\n