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My parents double exposed my first birthday over the only footage of my great grandmother. It looks like I will live to see those two exposures separated and restored.
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This is so much more exciting than that train station clip we saw earlier! Definitely going to be fun to see is applied to archival footage…
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PS: what a time to be alive indeed!
Didn’t we all decide about fifteen years ago that colorizing old black and white films was oh so lame? Thanks, tech undustry!
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There’s a difference between colorizing movies (as in artistic works where the shots were designed around the light and shadow that B&W film provides), and colorizing footage/pictures that are of interest because they give insights as to what life was like at some point in the past before color photography was a thing (or before it was common, anyway). There is an argument that say, colorizing WWI/WWII footage makes the people in them seem more real and relatable even if you believe (as I do) that attempts to colorize Bogart’s The Maltese Falcon are crimes against art.
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Ted Turner must be rolling over in his grave-shaped bed.
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