World's oldest 4K video
News / / January 03, 2021
Russian youtuber Denis Shiryaev has published a new video in which he was able to restore and improve the world's first celluloid film entitled "Scene in the Roundhay Garden." It was filmed in 1888 by Louis Le Prince on a camera that he invented himself. Only 20 negatives have survived to this day - these are copies of Le Prince's original negatives, which are kept by the Science Museum of Great Britain.
The original looks like this:
The author took a photo of the negatives from the official website of the museum, cut them into frames, and then used several neural networks to enlarge the image to 4K, add intermediate frames (the frequency increased from 12 to 60 frames per second), stabilize the image and add color.
Of course, the video is not perfect - for example, the man on the left turns into a bright spot due to a defect in the original negatives - but the work done still looks amazing.
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