Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Arrival at La Ciotat


Here's a rather impressive thing. A famous clip from an 1895 film by the Lumiere Brothers of a train arriving in La Ciotat (in the South of France) has been "up-scaled" to 4K using an AI algorithm, presumably to interpolate missing pixels. In any case it looks really good when compared to the grainy blurred original, I wonder if there's a market for re-processed B&W classics from the early 20th century and before? Amazing how the world has changed in 120 years, what will it be like in another 120, circa 2140? I wonder if we'll still have a habitable planet to film?

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