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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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Disneyland Dream – 1956 – Restored

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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 restoration techniques. The original film, which also includes a voice over audio track, can be found here https://archive.org/details/barstow_disneyland_dream_1956 “In July 1956, the five-member Barstow family of...Read More...

Film Restoration Demonstration – Disneyland 1956

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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 a resolution of 480 lines. Our clips coming later this week will be over 1000! Enjoy! Note this is for demo purposes only and has been...Read More...

Before & After

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Before and After Comparisons We could show you screen shots, but its better that you see the video enhancements in action, side by side with the original source: [youtube id=”K9aizzx43OI”Read More...

Restoration Process

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Our Restoration Process We are fanantics for quality. The reason these haven’t been transferred yet is that my dad purposely waited for the right technology to come around. Well the time has come and with a little help from my friendly computer I was able to amass a set of tools that can polish most home video/movies into something of beauty. So just what do we do? Once you’ve read through how we do it, take...Read More...