I colorized and animated this photograph of my great-great-grandfather and his friends, taken in 1914 in Russia. They are about to go to war on the Eastern front of WW1. He's the one standing, second from the left. He survived the war. Crazy what AI can do with images.

Workflow: 1) get very old picture from grandmother 2) ask Gemini to “colorize this photograph” with Nano Banana Pro. I tried a bunch of different prompts and got mixed results so simple works better 3) ask Gemini to animate it. I had to be quite precise with what they do in the prompt, otherwise they were just kinda sitting there twitching Ran many iterations of steps 2 and 3 and picked my favorite