Disney World Home Movies, Restored Films

1974 Magic Kingdom Parade – Restored Super8 with Sound in HD

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First before we get started, we all need to thank David Coolidge for this fantastic Super8 sound footage from March 1974. David is a client of ours, entrusting Pixcel and our ImageWorks department to transfer and restore his home movies. Along with his wife and two kids, the Coolidge family trekked to Orlando on the Amtrak Autotrain, spent their nights at the Polynesian Village and days at the Magic Kingdom. This is our second film from…Read More...

Disney World Home Movies, Restored Films

1974 Magic Kingdom Super8 with Sound – Mickey Mouse Review and more!

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First before we get started, we all need to thank David Coolidge for this fantastic Super8 sound footage from March 1974. David is a client of ours, entrusting Pixcel and our ImageWorks department to transfer and restore his home movies. Along with his wife and two kids, the Coolidge family trekked to Orlando on the Amtrak Autotrain, spent their nights at the Polynesian Village and days at the Magic Kingdom. Inside the film you will be…Read More...

Disney World Home Movies, Restored Films

1978 Super8 Magic Kingdom Home Movie – HD – Restored

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A few months back I stumbled upon a 3 minute reel of film on ebay titled "Disney World '78". The seller had no information of what was on the film, so I took a chance and bought it...I kept my fingers crossed that it wasn't laced with character greetings! The short 3 minute film is like most that were taken years ago; The family full of excitement boards the monorail, enters the Magic Kingdom, sees a…Read More...

Imageworks

Place a Order for Restoration

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Please follow the steps below to order a restoration. Any Questions? Email us:  info@retrodisneyworld.com Step 1: Transfer Place your transfer order at Pixcel.com – Utilize the appropriate coupon code from the table below to apply your discount and select a service level with us. During checkout at Pixcel you must select the option for hard drive output. You can buy a external hard drive from Pixcel, or supply your own – 1TB or higher is recommended....Read More...

Restored Films

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

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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... We are having this film scanned and will be updating it with a cleaner restoration once that is complete. The color on this film was pretty…Read More...

Disney World Home Movies, Restored Films

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

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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 this time the files sent back to me will be uncompressed, allowing for a much cleaner restoration. The film also did not hold its color as…Read More...

Restored Films, Restored Video, Retro Disney World

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

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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 you jump right to the video. Some of you will ask, if this was shot in 1990, why does it look “softer” and less realistic than...Read More...

Disney World Home Movies, Restored Films

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

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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 is not much more than the characters marching down the street or riding on the Main Street Vehicles. Scrooge McDuck is featured swerving around...Also interesting to…Read More...

Blog

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...

Disney World Home Movies, Restored Films

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

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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 binder that contains the handwritten account of their entire itinerary; mileage logs, fuel stops, and notes. For many years I've had in my possession 700 feet…Read More...