ImageWorks Film Restoration

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In closets, basements and attics around the world lie hide hidden gems…grainy, off color footage of days gone by, closed attractions and worlds some of us never got to see. RetroDisneyWorld presents its all new ImageWorks Film Restoration Lab – taking the films of yesteryear and restoring them for today’s viewing. While we will be working mainly on our own personal films and videos at first, we will expand out to offer this [free, for now]...Read More...

1966 EPCOT Film – Restoration Comparison – Should we do more to it?

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Here is a side by side comparison of the restoration we have been doing on Walt Disney's 1966 Film about EPCOT. We employed a few different techniques to remove dust/grain, smooth the motion, steady the picture and improve the color balance. You'll notice it is cropped a bit, that needed to be done in order to compensate for some of the scenes where the camera shakes quite a bit.Read More...

What if the Maelstrom soundtrack was “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure?

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Tonight, I again took a good look at the Norway grand opening celebration hosted by Willard Scott from 1988. The guy clearly had about 8 jars of Smuckers before they shot this; he’s on a sugar high that rubs off into the other actors like a bad cologne. What surprised me comes at the 5:51 mark where the adventure of Maelstrom begins. Do we hear “You are not the first to pass this way…” followed by...Read More...

High Resolution 1982 EPCOT Center Map – Free for download/printing!

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Over the past few months we have been working closely with Jason at Deep Water Studios, he is our key 3D guru for our Retro Replicas project (for more on that, visit www.retro-replicas.net). When Progress City posted a photo of an 1982 EPCOT Center Map a few days ago, Jason followed the conversation and realized there is a demand for a high resolution and zoom-able version of the map. Jason quickly reached into his bag of…Read More...

WDW Info Packet from 1989 – A window to the past, and future

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In the 1980s and 1990s if you wrote to WDW asking for information (I often did under the guise of a “school project”) they would send you all sorts of information goodies…now they would just re-direct you to some sticky sweet looking PDF file loaded with stock photographs of perfect families skipping through the Magic Kingdom. Brian one of our users sent us a scan of a 1989 WDW information package. There is a wealth of...Read More...

Retro Replicas is open!

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A few months back two confirmed Disney nerds collided in the ether of cyberspace. Each had expertise in areas that the other was looking for, and before you knew it, a partnership was formed. Since then they have been lying the foundation for a new and exciting venture that no one has tried before. Enter RetroReplicas, formed to bring your favorite theme park attractions to your very own home. Thousands of fans have fallen in love...Read More...

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