AI technology is giving old Chinese movies a brand-new look and lending film restorers a helping hand to sail through an otherwise slow and tedious process.
Before the age of digitization, film preservation was a mammoth undertaking involving cleaning, repairing and patching together the best surviving pieces of a film from bygone eras. Technicians needed to manually transform footage recorded on a film stock into a digital format – frame by frame. It was time-consuming and laborious.
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