Restored Films Archives

1975 Super8 Magic Kingdom America on Parade – Restored in HD – Home Movie

Tagged: 1975, Magic Kingdom, Parade, Restored Film, Spirit of America Parade, Super8, Video

This is #4 in our series of restored home movies. From July 20, 1975 comes the Magic Kingdom Parade - Spirit of America. This was shot in Frontierland and shows that the parade was going opposite the normal parade route for that day. Not sure how often that was done...…

1975 Super8 Magic Kingdom – Restored in HD – Tomorrowland Bliss & Swan Boats

Tagged: Adventureland, Grand Prix Raceway, Magic Kingdom, Restored Film, Skyway, Super8, Swan Boats, Tomorrowland, Tomorrowland Skyway Station, Video, WEDway

This particular piece of film had some nasty issues I had to deal with. For one, there was a massive amount of film grain; this caused compression artifacts in motion areas after the film was scanned and compressed. As a result, I'm sending the reels off to be re-scanned and…

Restored Horizons POV Ride Through – Go Sniff an Orange and Watch This!

Tagged: 1990, EPCOT Center, Horizons, Restored Film, Ride Through, Video

This is the first video restoration that we are releasing…We couldn’t think of a better attraction to start with other than Horizons! Martin Smith, whom you all know from his Ultimate Tributes (www.martinsvids.net) was kind enough to send me this footage from June 1990 for enhancement/restoration. A few things before…

1972 Super8 Magic Kingdom Parade – Restored in HD – Home Movie

Tagged: 1972, Magic Kingdom, Main Street USA, Parade, Restored Film, Super8, Video

This is #2 in our series of restored home movies. From 1972 comes the Magic Kingdom Main Street Parade...if you can call it that. Flanked on one end by the marching band and a fife and drum on the other, this parade really should be called a Character Cavalcade. It…

1972 Super8 WDW Home Movie restored in HD – Final Film Released!

Tagged: 1972, 20K Leagues Under The Sea, Admiral Joe Fowler, Adventureland, Fantasyland, Fantasyland Skyway Station, Frontierland, Grand Prix Raceway, Jungle Cruise, Magic Kingdom, Main Street USA, Mike Finn Keelboat, Restored Film, Skyway, Super8, Video, Walt Disney World Railroad

In 1972 my grandparents took a road trip from New Jersey to Florida...armed with AAA highlighted maps of the I-95 east coast corridor they stopped at South of the Border, Marineland, Busch Gardens, Walt Disney World and a host of other attractions. To this day I still have the 3-ring…

1972 WDW Film Restoration Status – Teaser Comparison Test Clip

Tagged: Imageworks, Restored Film

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…

1972 Walt Disney World Film – Short Teaser Clip

Here are a few quick snippets from our 1972 home movie footage that we recently had transferred. My grandparents shot this on Super 8 film in 1972. What we found in the film will amaze you… This film was scanned in at HD, 1080 lines of resolution. We have not…

Disneyland Dream – 1956 – Restored

Tagged: 1956, Archive.org, Barstow Family, Disneyland, Restored Film, Video

This is a portion of the Disneyland Dream film from the Center for Home Movies collection. The Library of Congress has placed this film in the National Archives as well. We only restored a portion of the 30 minute film; specifically the footage of Disneyland from 1956 to demonstrate our…

Film Restoration Demonstration – Disneyland 1956

Tagged: Disneyland, Imageworks, Restored Film

We figured you couldn’t wait until Thursday to see our 1975 footage of WDW; so to show you the power behind the software we are using, we restored a short clip from the “Barstow Disneyland Dream”. This film is part of the Center for Home Movies collection and only has…

1966 EPCOT Film – Restoration Complete

Tagged: 1966, EPCOT Center, EPCOT Film, Florida Project, Restored Film, Video, Walt Disney, Walt Disney World

We have completed and published the fully restored verion of the 1966 EPCOT Film which was part of Walt Disney's Florida Project. Filmed in October 1966, this film shows an eager Walt, just two months shy of his sudden death. This film is an amazing piece of Disneyana and Americana.…