Restored Video, Videos

Captain EO – 1996 MTV Broadcast – AI Enhanced Video

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We’re working hard here at RetroWDW to keep you occupied with new content over the next few weeks. Another rare find comes to us from the How Bowers Treasure Collection! This time How set his VCR to record MTV on June 26, 1996…why?  The only time that Disney aired Captain EO on Television in a special 2D 4:3 aspect ratio. We’ve applied all of our standard video enhancement tricks to clean this one up. While it’s...Read More...

Official Films, Restored Video, Videos

WDW Resort Information Channel Video – May 1992 – AI Enhanced VHS Recording

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This is just one of five WDW Resort Information channel videos that we will be releasing. We’ve gone ahead and cleaned up the luma/chroma alignment, reduced the noise and then ran it through the AI enhancement process. This runs nearly 1hr 30 minutes and will take to places that are now long gone, including Top of the World, Pleasure Island, River Country and more! This was recorded in May 1992 during the year-long 20th-anniversary celebration of...Read More...

Restored Video, Videos

A Day the Magic Kingdom – 1991 AI Enhanced VHS

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With the parks closed for the next few weeks, we figured we’d give you a virtual tour via the early 1990s videos, “A Day at The Magic Kingdom”. We used some of the techniques we learned while enhancing Horizons: Revisited on this video, including an all-new deinterlacing process and we’ve used AI to upscale the video to 720 lines. A Day at the Magic Kingdom – 1991 with MSEP – AI Enhanced A Day at the...Read More...

Imageworks, Restored Video, Videos

Horizons: Revisited 3D – HD Wide Angle 3D Ride Through

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The Lake Buena Vista Historical Society proudly presents… Horizons: Revisited 3D How does 3D work? From physics.org: If you look at an object near you and close your left and right eyes in turn, you’ll see that each has a slightly different view of the world. Your left eye sees a bit more of the left side of the object, and your right eye sees a bit more of its right side. Your brain fuses the...Read More...

Disney World Home Movies, Imageworks, Videos

Comedy Warehouse at Pleasure Island – May 28, 1992

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We have some more Pleasure Island fun for you and this time we take you inside the Comedy Warehouse. This comedy club opened back in 1989 and ran until 2008 featuring the look of a warehouse, filled with various props and things of that nature. Improvisation was the main idea of the act and our very own How Bowers is on the receiving end of the stage to audience phone call. You get a quick view...Read More...

Imageworks, Restored Video, Videos

Horizons: Revisited 3D Announcement & what you will need to experience!

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What happens when you have a fully restored tripod-mounted recording of Horizons? You turn it into a 3D video! Now you are probably thinking, how can you possibly have a 3D video when there was only one camera?  On March 25 2020, at 9pm Eastern we’ll let you ride this attraction like never before and let you in on the details on how we pulled off this amazing one-of-a-kind experience.   This production will be compatible...Read More...

Imageworks, Restored Video, Videos

Horizons: Revisited – HD Wide-Angle Lens Ride Through

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The Lake Buena Vista Historical Society proudly presents… Horizons: Revisited The following video is a restored and enhanced ride-through of the attraction featuring AI Interoplated HD video and an all-new remastered stereo soundtrack. For details on how this video was created, check out our Horizons: Revisted – Behind the Edit article! (Note this video features all 3 endings remastered from laserdisc copies: Space, Desert, and Undersea! They play in sequential order at the end)    Read More...

Imageworks, Restored Video, Videos

Horizons: Revisited – Release Day Announcement & Vote for the ending!

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    Join Todd, Brian, JT and How on a live video chat where they discuss the history and technical details of the restoration of the video before it premieres at 9 pm. Afterwords they will take live questions via the YouTube Chat feature and will then unveil a teaser trailer that you don’t want to miss! Once the live premier has ended the full video will be available on Youtube, Vimeo and at RetroWDW.com. Don’t...Read More...