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Listen to our history and restored film projects on the Intercot Podcast!

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The team over at Intercot (John, Cindy, Gary, Christine & Melanie) invited me to their podcast this week! I sat in for the entire 162 minute show and had a blast. At at the 3:20 mark I’m introduced during the opening, after the team gives tribute to Robin Williams we begin to go down my past history and get into the films starting at 20:40 right through 78:00 or so. For the remainder of the show...Read More...

We return to WDWFanBoys podcast this week, to talk about our ’71 film

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We are back with the WDWFanBoys podcast this week. We open discussing Robin Williams and his career and associations with Disney and then move on to a virtual “play by play” of the 1971 home movie we recently restored. As we step through the film Brett and I find some very interesting relics of days gone by and glimmers of the future, well, as the future of WDW was seen over 40 years agol Suggested to...Read More...

Listen up, we reveal a Secret Spoiler on the WDWFanBoys podcast!

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We were a special guest last week on the WDW Fan Boys podcast! Myself and Brett talk about the films we’ve restored and a few other interesting retro tidbits. Be sure to listen all the way through where we reveal a spoiler/secret about an upcoming film restoration! http://www.wdwfanboys.com/wdw-fanboys-podcast-episode-220-8102014-going-retro/Read More...

Improvements coming to our Film Restorations – New version of ’72 film coming tomorrow – Comparison photos!

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First, we want to thank everyone for the amazing response to our first restored WDW film (1972 Super8 WDW Home Movie restored in HD – Final Film Released!). Second, we need to say that we weren’t satisfied with the results… yes I know, that sounds crazy, but something just wasn’t right. The gamma was a bit too high and we felt we could tweak the scripts to make the picture even more amazing.. The still frames...Read More...

1972 WDW Film Restoration Status – Teaser Comparison Test Clip

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Busy weekend here at ImageWorks… But I did find time to render out a quick comparison. this is far from done, but you’ll be able to see some of the clean up we are working on. The film needs to be brightened up a bit; currenly we are focusing on stabilization and dirt/dust removal. Potentially we will have our first full length clip available early this week!Read More...

10 still images from our 1972 film – Bonus full size frame demo – Vintage WDW!

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We know you are all awaiting the restoration of the early WDW home movie film that we recently had converted. We expect, that by 5/9 we can release the first fully restored clip from 1972. But for now here are some resized (but not restored/color corrected) frame captures from our recent 1972 home movie conversion. [ The Film can now be seen here. ] Bonus full size frame at the bottom of the screen! Hmm, something is...Read More...

ImageWorks Update – WDW Home Movie Film restoration

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We’ve broken out our original article into an all new section of RetroDisneyWorld.com… The restoration of old home movie film and video is starting to gain interest. Here is where we stand and what we plan to do next. First 8mm movie transfers are complete – They are enroute back from the lab, scanned at HD 1080p. Final display resolution is yet to be determined, but it will be higher than anything you’ve seen before. The...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...