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I've been following this, and I have to say this video looks awful. Everything seems to change resolution frame-by-frame, tons of detail appears to be missing (
by CommieBobDole 7y ago
I've been following this, and I have to say this video looks awful. Everything seems to change resolution frame-by-frame, tons of detail appears to be missing (but comes and goes throughout the video), etc. If you posted this video today and said "hey, here's a cool old-timey video I took of the recent 1800's train re-enactment society meeting", people would want to know what kind of '90s phone you used and how many times you dropped it before you took the video.
But (and the 'but' is important here) according to this article, this is not a 4k upscale of a high-quality restoration of the original film, it's based off the second Youtube video on the linked page, which is a terrible low-quality scan of a bad print, haphazardly 'restored' to remove most of the scratches and holes, then uploaded to youtube and compressed to the point that almost no detail remains.
Given the incredibly poor quality of the source material, this is actually pretty impressive.