1960s Super 8 film transferred to 1080p HD video & color corrected - AMAZING!

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  • Опубліковано 11 лис 2020
  • If you want your movie film transferred to digital the right way, send it to a real professional, not Legacybox or Kodak Digitizing. Brad Miller of Film-Tech Cinema Systems scanned this Super 8 film to 1080p HD and 2160p Ultra HD using a Lasergraphics Scanstation Pro 6.5K and applied color correction to it, and even without more advanced processing to clean up the image, I'm amazed at the quality of the results.
    Brad's UA-cam channel FT Depot has other films he's scanned: / ftdepot and here was the e-mail he sent me detailing the conversion of this film:
    "The resolution on this print is quite low for Super 8mm. Actual reversal home movies, especially those shot on Kodachrome 25 and Kodachrome 40 look impressive for how small the image on the film is, but this is a reduction print dupe of a dupe so it's more soft than typical 8mm film. Regardless, the 1080P file is plenty high enough resolution to capture all of the available data on this film, but I've included a 4K version of the scan as well if you will be watching on a 4K monitor and don't want to upscale.
    I think you will find the image cropping differences between the MovieStuff scanner used at Legacybox to the Film-Tech scan quite shocking. We actually had to crop a little bit more than typical around the edges of your image due to the various garbage in the aperture of the camera, but even with that when you compare the two scans, the MovieStuff scanner cropped off almost half of the available image volume on the film. (And FYI the little black line you see in the upper right corner is printed INTO the film. It isn't a "hair in the gate" of the scanner.)
    Also surprising, Legacybox didn't even transfer the first 13 seconds of your film.
    As we always do, we did a courtesy basic color correction. As films fade over time besides the colors fading, the overall density is lost as well, so blacks become light grey and lights become washed out. This is why you may compare the two scans and the Legacybox might appear "brighter" in some shots. Our density compensation should be pretty close to the film print from when it was originally manufactured though. (All of the white lines and marks you see on the image is dirt and scratches on the negative these prints were struck from.)
    Finally, your film doesn't have any splices in it. The various "jumps" you see in our transfer are literally splices that were pre-printed into the film. (A really bad jump example is at 0:13 in our file.) Any image bounciness you see in our file is also printed into the film.
    Note - We included a silent audio track on the H264 file, as we have found occasionally there is player or editor software that doesn't like mp4 files without an audio track.
    Should you decide to post some side by side clips on a followup video, it would be appreciated if you could mention that Film-Tech did the followup comparison scan. ( www.film-tech.com | / ftdepot ) There are a lot of these "professional video transfer companies out there, and most of them are nothing more than a guy working in his garage to wildly varying levels of quality, usually with homebrew equipment rigs.
    Thanks,
    Brad"
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  • @8_Bit
    @8_Bit 3 роки тому +293

    This transfer is fantastic, and the music is even better.

    • @aphexteknol
      @aphexteknol 3 роки тому +37

      I agree, the color correction is pretty spot on considering the badly faded dyes in the original film.

    • @onyourjackjones
      @onyourjackjones 3 роки тому +4

      Is it the original music?

    • @Narayan_1996
      @Narayan_1996 3 роки тому +20

      @@onyourjackjones No, there is a video here of a compact record playing those songs, it is named "Music for squarewave moods" I think

    • @rivards1
      @rivards1 3 роки тому +18

      @@onyourjackjones The tune was "Sunny Side of the Street", by the way.

    • @Narayan_1996
      @Narayan_1996 3 роки тому +6

      PS: The correct name is "Music for Many Squarewave Moods
      ", here is the link, SUPERB music, i absolutely love it, and it is on my favorite record music playlist ^^
      ua-cam.com/video/2jrGaCzGGtM/v-deo.html

  • @MrCarGuy
    @MrCarGuy 3 роки тому +232

    I'm glad you exposed such a pitiful company and are directing people in the right direction.

    • @jeffreysnow2640
      @jeffreysnow2640 Рік тому +2

      I knew they did a bad job from the get-go !!!

  • @AussieTVMusic
    @AussieTVMusic 3 роки тому +82

    That organ music is so 60s. Took me right back.

    • @George-sv1fm
      @George-sv1fm 3 роки тому +3

      I usually associate organ music with silent pictures. But wasn t alive in the 60's so...

    • @gctechs
      @gctechs 3 роки тому +1

      @@kyria_kous MIDI doesn't have any sound.

    • @2574mcu
      @2574mcu 3 роки тому +2

      When I was a kid in the 60s my neighbor had a organ that sounded just like that. I could hear it if my bedroom window was open. They played it so loud.

  • @und4287
    @und4287 3 роки тому +48

    The color correction simply looks stunning.

  • @TheTapeDiscMan
    @TheTapeDiscMan 3 роки тому +19

    Now THIS is what I call a high quality restoration.

    • @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112
      @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 3 роки тому +1

      Too bad the original is a pretty low-quality positive print (a copy). It's a LONG way away from first-gen (non-copied) films, even shot on comparatively (say, 100) high-ISO film stock. Both Super8 film and the scanner being used are capable of FAR superior results.

  • @gazzmanp
    @gazzmanp 3 роки тому +32

    I think it was filmed in 1963. That's when Charade came out. It was playing at the Chinese Theatre.

  • @runforitman
    @runforitman 3 роки тому +77

    completely incompetent vs highly skilled
    this scan looks incredible
    I couldn't believe the colour that could be retrieved

    • @thatmatt41
      @thatmatt41 3 роки тому +14

      im guessing a ton of colour correction was needed to fix that. I'm guessing that legacybox probably just did a raw scan, didn't check the file or anything and just sent it as it was, but the other company actually took time and care with the scan - even if the colour wasn't on the film itself, colour correction is a damn powerful tool

    • @devikwolf
      @devikwolf 3 роки тому +13

      I was also surprised at how well the color correction worked! I expected some restoration with a lot of leftover fade but that's really Incredible

    • @afloyd4976
      @afloyd4976 3 роки тому +10

      I think you'll find desaturating the reds and magentas reveals hidden details and color information in shocking ways.

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 3 роки тому +4

      There are some amazing AI programs to restore color now.

    • @Kalumbatsch
      @Kalumbatsch 3 роки тому +5

      @@5roundsrapid263 Neural networks tend to make stuff up. It's debatable how much of that qualifies as restoring.

  • @gameoverwehaveeverypixelco1258
    @gameoverwehaveeverypixelco1258 3 роки тому +23

    Legacy box seriously gave you a 640x480p scan of the film in 2020!!!
    Didn't know it was 1998.
    And they didn't even try to color correct it, wow.
    It looks like they even zoomed and cropped their crappy scan so a lot of the movie is missing.

    • @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112
      @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 3 роки тому +2

      well, actually, scanning this movie with anything over VGA would be an overkill. It’s of VERY low resolution - I’d say around 100*150 or only very slightly higher.

  • @tim_brooks
    @tim_brooks 3 роки тому +33

    i use a scanstation where i work to scan film and it’s amazing. i keep hearing legacybox commercials on the radio. i always knew they were a fraud. good work exposing them! (i should’ve volunteered to scan your film when i saw the legacybox take-down video!)

  • @BilisNegra
    @BilisNegra 3 роки тому +18

    Loved the corny background music. The absolute perfect match for that kind of filmed material.

    • @colinscotland2887
      @colinscotland2887 2 роки тому +1

      Here is the whole version of Music for many moods that I have just uploaded ua-cam.com/video/LyOLKnhCcNQ/v-deo.html

  • @chrisandrus2735
    @chrisandrus2735 3 роки тому +105

    About film aging, i've noticed recently that all of the Kodachrome slides that my grandfather took basically look brand new and the Ektachrome ones are all turning magenta-just thought you would find it interesting☺️

    • @jonglass
      @jonglass 3 роки тому +25

      Ektachrome is bad for fading, and whatever Hollywood used for film back in the day. There used to be a company, Seattle Filmworks, that would use cinema film, package it in 35mm canisters, and sell it to photographers. I believe you'd get both slides and negatives/prints from the film. (It's been so long, I forget), but their film had a terrible red-shift as well. All my Kodachrome slides are still nice, and I'm glad I never shot Ektachrome. (I saw my dad's Ektachrome slides as a kid, and decided not to use it, just on a hunch)

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 3 роки тому +31

      Kodachrome is the most colour-stable film stock in existence. That is because Kodachrome is actually a Monochrome film which gets its colour dye added during the processing. A process that was very complicated and expensive but was the reason why Kodachrome colours hardly even faint. That is also why Kodak at one point stopped producing and processing Kodachrome entirely. Normal Colourfilm is only colour-stable for 50 years and then starts to fade. Usually the green and blue fades first as these are the outer layers of colourdye, leaving you with only magenta at the end. Ektachrome even fades a lot quicker. It is estimated that Kodachrome may be colour stable for at least 100 years.

    • @loopshackr
      @loopshackr 3 роки тому +9

      @@jonglass I used Seattle Filmworks and RGB to shoot a bunch of 5247 (the film type) negatives in the 70's and '80s. They printed the negative to the matched positive stock (I forget the type) and/or to prints, as ordered. My positive slides made before about 1982 eventually faded badly to magenta, but slides from after then still look decent today. The 5247 negatives had a different color profile than Kodacolor (etc.), and very few "kiosk" photo printers had that profile available, and so wouldn't want to bother with printing it. Fortunately, even the pre-'82 negative stock seems not to have faded and I've gotten good results with scanning and correction.

    • @BlueNeon81
      @BlueNeon81 3 роки тому +5

      @@KRAFTWERK2K6 All Kodak, or Eastman color positive films made before 1980 use to fade very quickly, which was the reason to develope low fade film stocks. Old Ferrania used to fade to blue. Most stable film stocks, beside Technicolor and Kodachrome, was East-German Orwo, but it was generally the worst film stock ever (too grainy, unable to push up or down without color loss, "creamy" colors).

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 3 роки тому +2

      @@BlueNeon81 Yeah ORWO was actually AGFA East but they weren't allowed to use the AGFA brand. So they became basically ORWO. My parents used quite some of their colour stock in the 80s. Yeah their colour stock was pretty bad. It looked very low-res, rough and unusually bad. Even if shot with actually good cameras & lenses. They looked liked 3rd of 4th copy generations from a print. Black and White stock however looked pretty good.

  • @JSRphones
    @JSRphones 3 роки тому +6

    Holy. Shit. This is incredible! He managed to restore the colour to this nearly colourless film?!
    Can't believe a one-man business would have better service than a team of so-called professionals.

  • @Complextro93kg
    @Complextro93kg 3 роки тому +83

    That man knows his job well, and deserves to be promoted, not like legacycrap.

  • @mxslick50
    @mxslick50 3 роки тому +36

    As a long time member of the Film-Tech forum, I can vouch for Brad and both his technical savvy and his business and personal ethics. I would gladly pay for him to restore my old super8 films, many with sound. Thanks for uploading this!!

  • @chinawheels3558
    @chinawheels3558 3 роки тому +29

    Loved the new conversion. Gave me nostalgia for an era I wasn't born yet.... People outside enjoying a simpler life....

    • @mayshack
      @mayshack 3 роки тому +7

      It takes me back--rampant abuse of animals for entertainment, the haze of leaded gasoline smog in the skies and no concern for emissions, no seatbelts, airbags, or crumple zones to take the excitement out of a car accident.

    • @1marcelfilms
      @1marcelfilms 3 роки тому +6

      @@mayshack i bet the smog smelled amazing

  • @afloyd4976
    @afloyd4976 3 роки тому +7

    Brad is da bomb! Practically took an insignificant little 8mm film and made a masterpiece! Old film doesn't need to stay looking old!

  • @elijahvincent985
    @elijahvincent985 3 роки тому +8

    The footage of California was from 1963, based on the Grauman Chinese Theater playing the movie "Charade". This is one of the most beautiful restorations I've ever seen with the colors and scenery of the footage. The Hammond Organ music adds to the magical charm of the 1960s era. Seeing Americana footage like this certainly satisfies a film lover like me.

  • @james_fisch
    @james_fisch 3 роки тому +38

    No idea if Brad will do this for everyone, but I sent an email just in case. The results on this video are impressive. I have some 8MM movies from my great-grand uncle, which he took when my grandfather was in his early twenties (my age now). My grandfather is still alive and fairly well, and I'd like to convert those rolls to digital. They were put on VHS, then on DVD using the projection/camcorder method, but I want to go one step above. There's a good amount of footage on there showing his trip to New York City in the 1950s, which I'm hoping was around the time the Singer Building was still standing. Regardless, a lot of that footage I think has significant historical importance, and I emailed Brad to see if he can do the same thing with the rolls of film, with whatever price he decides on.
    Once the footage is digitized, I'll then get my grandfather to narrate as much as possible since we have notes on it.

    • @NoiseStaticBlur
      @NoiseStaticBlur 3 роки тому +3

      Will you post the commented movie on your channel ? That would be the kind of thing I would be willing to watch.

    • @kevinh96
      @kevinh96 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah seeing those would be really interesting. It's these types of home movies shot by ordinary people that I feel are hugely important as they give a real insight into the lives and communities of real people of yesteryear.

    • @needfortweed8734
      @needfortweed8734 3 роки тому

      Now that is something I could get behind. I have a Video8 PAL machine and I am looking for old cassettes to just digitize what might be more or less good cam-footage but is also now history. I would love a more serious machine for more serious mies (such as the one Brad is using) but I fear that it will be very expensive...

    • @AC-kx4zr
      @AC-kx4zr 3 роки тому +1

      I take it there hasn't been any progress on this yet. It sounds so damn interesting and I'm all hyped up to watch it.

    • @classic_movie_trailers
      @classic_movie_trailers Рік тому

      You will get the best result if you work from the original film prints (if possible) - conversions in the past to DVD or VHS will have degraded the quality enormously. The best way is to use a frame by frame high quality scanning and software equipment to achieve HD resolution. Super 8mm film will give a much better result than the older standard 8mm.

  • @FunkatronicDingus
    @FunkatronicDingus 3 роки тому +28

    The best thing about working second shift is getting to watch a VWestlife video at 2:30am!

    • @Aperson90839
      @Aperson90839 3 роки тому

      DUDE IT'S 23:32 WHERE I AM

    • @FunkatronicDingus
      @FunkatronicDingus 3 роки тому +1

      @@Aperson90839 Nice, I would have been getting out of work by then!

    • @jacobh1995
      @jacobh1995 3 роки тому

      I work normal shift but I am watching at 3:30 am!

    • @joeblow8593
      @joeblow8593 3 роки тому

      Watching at 6:41 AM (Eastern U.S.)

  • @frankowalker4662
    @frankowalker4662 3 роки тому +16

    He did one hell of a job on that film. I enjoyed watching it. Thank you.

  • @jpolar394
    @jpolar394 3 роки тому +6

    That organ music reminds me of a old Hertz Mountain record I had as a kid and it had birds singing on it along with the organ music. The purpose of the record was to try to make your canary or parakeet sing and keep them company.

  • @enjoythepig
    @enjoythepig 3 роки тому +8

    The last transfer video kind of made me sick to my stomach, seeing this will make me sleep better at night.

  • @BlueNeon81
    @BlueNeon81 3 роки тому +13

    It looks like it was originally shot and edited on 16 mm and copied to 8 mm negative, from which this copy was made.

  • @hattree
    @hattree 3 роки тому +18

    That music reminds me of a baseball game when I was a kid.

  • @jonglass
    @jonglass 3 роки тому +15

    Charade was playing in the theaters!!! And I love the "Cuba Baion" feel of the song you chose. ;-)

    • @bens1343
      @bens1343 3 роки тому +2

      Flippin' 'eck!

    • @abbafan50986
      @abbafan50986 3 роки тому

      That's it for the moment! As always, thanks for watching.

  • @themixgenius1993
    @themixgenius1993 3 роки тому +32

    Film-Tech: "I'm gonna end this Legacybox's career"

  • @GeneSavage
    @GeneSavage 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you for showing the differences! I believe my father in law has some old film he'd like to get into digital, and I for sure will be recommending he consider Film-Tech. As someone else said, the spectacular results speak for themselves!

  • @cirebyte7588
    @cirebyte7588 3 роки тому +11

    Good restoration, very stable image and the speed looks good.

  • @Ashfielder
    @Ashfielder 3 роки тому +7

    That came out wonderfully, and that version of Sunny Side of the Street works perfectly with it.

  • @stp22
    @stp22 3 роки тому +7

    Preservation of history, amazing technology

  • @fhwolthuis
    @fhwolthuis 3 роки тому +8

    Great job! It shows the importance of doing some investigation before you send off your media to be converted.

  • @onefatstratcat
    @onefatstratcat 3 роки тому +7

    he does nice work.. I have my dads slides from Sea World and the Zoo from that time period.. I grew up a stones throw away from Sea World.. I learned how to ski at 7 years old in the waters of Mission bay :)

  • @UncleAwesomeRetro
    @UncleAwesomeRetro 3 роки тому +29

    I have some old photographs that turned very red and I was surprised how simple it was to get the colors back with photoshop. They were not as red as this movie though.

    • @SuperFinGuy
      @SuperFinGuy 3 роки тому +3

      You used the curves adjustment, right? Now try it on original mars photos for a nice surprise.

    • @UncleAwesomeRetro
      @UncleAwesomeRetro 3 роки тому +3

      @@SuperFinGuy I think I used the color balance slider. You mean red mars photos and turn them into "normal looking"? I tried that and it worked fine :) Easiest was to use "automatic colors"

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 роки тому +2

      @@UncleAwesomeRetro I believe there's also methods where you click on a part of the image which should be white, or close to it, then simply so fine adjustments after that. Lots of ways!

    • @UncleAwesomeRetro
      @UncleAwesomeRetro 3 роки тому

      @@kaitlyn__L Yeah that's true. I use that often in premiere.

    • @afloyd4976
      @afloyd4976 3 роки тому +2

      I had a ton of Boy Scout Jamboree slides which had red faded and desaturating the reds worked a lot of the time.

  • @princesswalt4010
    @princesswalt4010 Рік тому +1

    He did a great job in the scan/grade. I almost miss working with film. I used to work on rank Cintel telecines, Spirit classic and Spirit 4K data cine, and got good at tuning the Filmlight Northlight 1 & 2 scanners. If I’m not mistaken, the scanner he used is optical registered (they scan the perf, and stabilize the image optically), where the northlights were pin-registered, and a total pain in the ass to restore old film even with the “shrunken pin” restoration pin-blocks! Never did anything smaller than 16, tho. Thanks for a bit of nostalgia!

  • @JessHull
    @JessHull 3 роки тому +6

    I really enjoyed this look back at old California. I recognized some of the locations.

  • @WildDieWoodard
    @WildDieWoodard 3 роки тому +8

    Thanks for sharing! Marineland is LONG gone, but I've certainly been to many of the other places in the film! Very fun and great quality!

  • @kamuy_1337
    @kamuy_1337 3 роки тому +2

    This is much better, completely watchable

  • @jorgem50
    @jorgem50 3 роки тому +2

    I went to Marineland back in elementary school for a field trip. Was so much fun! 1982

  • @gabrieleorioli1760
    @gabrieleorioli1760 3 роки тому +18

    The same goes for 35mm photi negatives, trust me. Some photo studios I went to just scanned them with a cheap integrated scanner, yelding....weird results. Way worse than the prints. After I mailed the negatives to a legit laboratory I got some of the highest quality scans I have ever seen. They looked way better than what my phone or digital camera could do at the time. (both in color and resolution)

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 3 роки тому +5

    Makes you wonder if this was shot at regular 8mm and then just mass-copied to Super 8? Seems to be from the early 1960s before Super 8 was introduced by Kodak. Brad did a great job on colour-grading the poor state of the film to give it back its colours to his best abilities. :) Pretty cool of him offering you to transfer it properly. I'll totally check out his channel as well.

    • @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112
      @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 3 роки тому

      Yup, the original may have been shot on something low-quality to save costs. This, of course, results in absymal quality and resolution. Back in the day, “proper” (pre-made) home movie companies used 16 or even 35mm masters. With these companies, it was VERY rare to use 8mm input.
      An example: the East-German DEFA, of which I have tons of 8mm and Super 8mm releases (costed me a LOT to order all those films off eBay.de, LOL….) - see ua-cam.com/play/PL4_1cuziVtq_fGwM1vN-iV97M8As94hqP.html
      Again, as with ORWO, being East-German doesn’t necessarily mean rubbish. Don’t think (most of) these films are generally technically inferior - on the contrary!
      Only one of the several DEFA films I have (and scanned) has significantly worse quality than the rest: a travel film shot in India ( ua-cam.com/video/kFStUZvz2cM/v-deo.html ). Well, I can certainly understand Germans didn’t want to lug around a 16/35mm camera that far away, so they only took a 8mm camera with them.
      And an example of using a 35mm master: for example, the “Science of the Soviet Union” film at ua-cam.com/video/tkNZbn_oXKE/v-deo.html . (Check out the still-visible original 35mm perforations showing it was indeed copied from 35mm!) Absolutely wonderful quality for a Std8 film!

    • @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112
      @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 3 роки тому

      BTW, speaking of proper S8 distributions, here’s a Super8 release of the same DEFA: ua-cam.com/video/-jhiGbSBlwU/v-deo.html The resolution is just incomparably better than that of the California film, showing the master was of high quality.

  • @jamesdrake6200
    @jamesdrake6200 3 роки тому +1

    Wow! Much better. It was nice of Brad to do this for you. Definitely adds further weight to your point in the previous video.

  • @futureshock7425
    @futureshock7425 3 роки тому +3

    Looks like a dream

  • @cbehr91
    @cbehr91 3 роки тому +6

    I didn't realize LegacyBox used a MovieStuff scanner in their hack job of your film. MovieStuff has been in business for years, and their scanners are generally decent. I have one of their older Retro-8 720p scanners, but you still need something like Avisynth+Virtualdub to denoise and degrain the film and for color correction. A wet-gate transfer would still do better (more $$$, too). For a dupe the Film-Tech transfer is quite good. Glad it worked out for you.
    Hopefully Roger at MovieStuff sees LB's hack job with his equipment and does something about it.

  • @bf0189
    @bf0189 3 роки тому +3

    I love the electric organ music so 60s!

  • @steelplasma256
    @steelplasma256 Рік тому +1

    Such a difference in quality. Color me impressed.

  • @TheRailroad99
    @TheRailroad99 3 роки тому +1

    Not bad. At our University we also digitize those 8mm films. Its a great thing to test a multitude of algorithms if they work well, color correction, image stabilization, dust & noise reduction, its fantastic for developing those. Even working with known algorithms from MatLab etc. works really well. Im glad I took the image processing course.

  • @Vokabre
    @Vokabre 3 роки тому +14

    4:20 That part of the film is very good at highlighting poor city planning and building decisions of the time

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 роки тому +3

      oh dear, I hadn't noticed it was all freeway! my British brain half-looked at it and assumed the stuff down below was train tracks 🥲 rip walkability... though I suppose in the day it seemed like "wow! the future!!"; I mean, you see it all over sci-fi illustrations, extrapolating their current course into visions of cities with 3 or 4 layers/storeys of freeways all stacked atop each other, and sometimes running from building to building fully suspended. Imagine what a hellscape navigating one of those on foot would be! (Presumably pedestrians would be shunted off into their own elevated walkways, a la some projects tried and failed in London in the '60s, forget what they called them now, skypaths or footways or something)

    • @fiverZ
      @fiverZ 3 роки тому +1

      Pedways. This guy has a good video about them: ua-cam.com/video/TvCUgWnptUc/v-deo.html

    • @Vokabre
      @Vokabre 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks for the link, never heard of this concept in regards to London. The similar concept been tried (and failed) in Zelenograd, and everywhere i stumble upon similar multi-level pedestrian routes (La Defence in Paris, Hong Kong) it's super confusing (although Hong Kong did it much better than any other place i know of).
      Soviet cities tried and many post-Soviet cities still are trying to rely on underground crossings for every street possible, pretty terrible idea on practice route planning-wise and accessibility-wise (even made a video featuring those in Moscow). ua-cam.com/video/9SzXnoeY09s/v-deo.html

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 3 роки тому +2

      @@Vokabre oh, neat, I'll add that to my watch later. UK underpasses tend to be pretty good for wheelchair accessibility, but they're somewhat rare, generally just for cutting under a dual carriageway (more accessible than a bridge tall enough to go over it, slope-wise, at least). I've noticed in Tokyo there's seemingly a lot of bridge-type road crossings, those seem pretty bad for wheelchair accessibility, but at least generally seem well-marked with tactile paving and high-contrast handrails and stuff?
      Edit: actually, scratch that, I've come across really steep underpasses, here and there, which might pose a challenge I suppose... most of them are on a gentle grade though.

    • @Vokabre
      @Vokabre 3 роки тому

      @@kaitlyn__L The main advantage of Tokyo and urban Japan in general that the bridges tend to have elevators and/or are optional i.e. use the bridge to avoid waiting for a green signal; while Soviet and post-Soviet urban planning tend to have similar bridges (especially around train stations) but with no accessibility features and no way to avoid them.

  • @ianmaddrell2247
    @ianmaddrell2247 3 роки тому +1

    Those colours are incredible, so much better than the other transfer.

  • @anasevi9456
    @anasevi9456 3 роки тому +3

    brilliant work by Brad!

  • @kingbee133
    @kingbee133 3 роки тому +1

    I'm glad we got to see the legacy box transfer color to see what an impressive job Brad did

  • @richardhalliday159
    @richardhalliday159 3 роки тому +4

    Excellent results.

  • @uxwbill
    @uxwbill 3 роки тому +4

    That's incredible. They did an amazing job.

  • @mayshack
    @mayshack 3 роки тому +3

    This video reminds me of the new Borat movie. California: subsequent moviefilm transfer.

  • @therealthirst8099
    @therealthirst8099 3 роки тому +22

    4:06 , That looks so familiar. Is that the location Lucas used for the establishing shot of the Mos Eisley Spaceport in Star Wars episode 4? it looks like a very similar angle too.

    • @Vokabre
      @Vokabre 3 роки тому +10

      Seems like so, they filmed extensively in Death Valley

    • @5roundsrapid263
      @5roundsrapid263 3 роки тому +1

      3:26 is where they filmed the Endor scenes for Return of the Jedi.

    • @mercuryoak2
      @mercuryoak2 3 роки тому +2

      3:38 look like beginning of Gilligans isle

    • @vconqwstify
      @vconqwstify 3 роки тому +1

      I had the same impression

  • @tvfromvcr8331
    @tvfromvcr8331 Рік тому

    This looks so much better than the previous transfer!

  • @enricoself2256
    @enricoself2256 3 роки тому +7

    The colour correction is amazing ! And yes, it is a pretty bad film to begin with, I have colour reversal home shot Super8 reels that rival 720p movies (better than a DVD but worse than 1080p)

    • @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112
      @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 3 роки тому +1

      “it is a pretty bad film to begin with” - It indeed has very low resolution, particularly for a S8 film (as opposed to Std8). REALLY bad. But, of course, it’s not the fault of the scanning company.

  • @devikwolf
    @devikwolf 3 роки тому +3

    Awesome to see a quality transfer job compared to the stunningly crappy LegacyBox transfers

  • @adoatero5129
    @adoatero5129 3 роки тому +1

    It's great to see one more old film preserved into digital format. Digitizing the large amount of existing old films in high quality is a huge task that, because of film degradation, has to be done mostly by the current generation. I think that's a subject that should be discussed more. Many people don't realize how many films there are to be preserved and how small the time and other resources to preserve them is. It's unfortunate that there are dishonest companies like Legacybox that only make the problem worse.

  • @mondocamp
    @mondocamp 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing colour correction! And lovely images.
    Thanks for sharing this new transfer, pretty awesome the quality!
    The music fit in it perfectly too, kinda nostalgic...

  • @internetuser-os5hw
    @internetuser-os5hw 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing restoration

  • @eltonbadham
    @eltonbadham 3 роки тому +2

    That's better and the music goes a treat with the footage.

  • @venturarodriguezvallejo9777
    @venturarodriguezvallejo9777 3 роки тому +2

    Very good clues for proper transfers from analog movies to digital files... Thanks!

  • @TechBaffle
    @TechBaffle 3 роки тому +1

    Wow! This is incredible - never knew it could look this good 😁

  • @buzzradio1
    @buzzradio1 Рік тому

    WOW! What a difference compared to legacybox? That 8mm film was AMAZING!!!! thanks for sharing!

  • @MontieMongoose
    @MontieMongoose 3 роки тому +1

    What a difference high quality equipment and a little bit of care can make.

  • @rotwang83
    @rotwang83 3 роки тому +2

    Amazing how the blue colors came back, great job by Brad. The background music fits perfectly. I guess the downvotes are from Legacybox 😉

  • @theworldwidehistoryofhisto2868
    @theworldwidehistoryofhisto2868 3 роки тому +2

    I noticed a 4:27 that it features Grauman's Chinese Theatre which was showing the film Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn which came out in 1963. So that could possibly date the film to right around 1963.

  • @Nonexistanthuman
    @Nonexistanthuman Рік тому +1

    This was pretty cool to watch, thanks for sharing

  • @spacecitysprockets
    @spacecitysprockets 3 місяці тому

    Wow, that is great. Brad is definitely on my suppliers list now.

  • @mufeedco
    @mufeedco 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video.

  • @ThomasTalbotMD
    @ThomasTalbotMD 3 роки тому

    Wow. The film transfer looks very good and the color correction is fantastic!

  • @robertcrewdson8611
    @robertcrewdson8611 3 роки тому

    An amazing job, including the colour restoration.

  • @Dutchsteammachine
    @Dutchsteammachine 3 роки тому +2

    Superbly done!

  • @Capturing-Memories
    @Capturing-Memories 3 роки тому +4

    I've linked this video and the other one about legacy box and sent them by e-mail to legacy box.

  • @krissjacobsen9434
    @krissjacobsen9434 3 роки тому +1

    The difference is insane :O

  • @5roundsrapid263
    @5roundsrapid263 3 роки тому +2

    4:10 “This is the city. I carry a badge.”

    • @JrGoonior
      @JrGoonior 3 роки тому

      @4:15 Parker Center

  • @mercuryoak2
    @mercuryoak2 3 роки тому

    Awesome seeing this restored plus seeking cars you can't see anymore just amazing . music fits this so well. The music was included thats great! It sounds like something my grandmother or grandfather would play on the lowrey organ I learned in . my grandfather learned how to play piano . but my grandmother and myself would use rythem built in never using the bass peedals like this had. Very cool Kevin. *****To add as i listened to music and seen previous comments I found your video of the lowrey organ demo record you did a video of. Whats funny is the beats and instruments are still being used in newer organs and the. Rythrms are still there today.. the one I learned at age 4 was a lowrey Heritage from 1991 then a lowrey Coronation until they passed grampa Oct 31 1922 to feb 11,2014. Age 91 And my gram Nov 27 1927 to Dec 25,2017. At 90

  • @Laserdreamz
    @Laserdreamz 3 роки тому +2

    This is super cool thanks for sharing.

  • @DanOConnorTech
    @DanOConnorTech 3 роки тому +4

    Excellent transfer! I wonder if that was the original "Shamu" at Seaworld near the end? The timing might be right. And Marineland having porpoises jump through fiery hoops? Many years later "Blackfish" was released and the Seaworlds had to be better.

  • @raymondmartin6737
    @raymondmartin6737 3 роки тому

    Nice video transfer. We went to San Diego for two weeks each trip in 2008
    and 2009. The San Diego Zoo looked
    similar to your film. The entrance, animals and the seals performing. We
    stayed at Mission Bay, near SeaWorld
    on the first trip, in 2008, and Harbor
    Island facing the Naval Base at Coronado on our second trip in 2009.

  • @basilchapmanlft
    @basilchapmanlft 6 місяців тому

    This looks awesome!

  • @delmonti
    @delmonti 3 роки тому +1

    ...That Music! wonderful!

  • @paulyh4531
    @paulyh4531 3 роки тому

    Wow he has done a fab job on that great quality 👍👍

  • @goodiesguy
    @goodiesguy 3 роки тому +1

    Forgiving that the film print is several generations away from the original negative, the results are fantastic and put Legacybox to shame. With a lower gen copy and some minor gate weave and dirt removal, it would look amazing.

  • @wizardgherkin
    @wizardgherkin 3 роки тому +1

    That was beautiful!

  • @MsZiomallo
    @MsZiomallo 3 роки тому +6

    2:21 Ew, is that film monochrome?
    2:26 HOLY SHI--

  • @DarkGT
    @DarkGT 3 роки тому

    There is french program called Film9 that could be used for correction of old media like 8 mm scans. It meant for this purpose it can improve the quality a lot.

  • @konsul2006
    @konsul2006 3 роки тому +6

    Brad Miller the magician. They must surely have a better original tape at universal? Perhaps they haven't any commercial interest in digitally mastering their all their old content?

    • @SeanBZA
      @SeanBZA 3 роки тому +4

      They probably do not even know what they have, and so much has been lost forever due to a combination of aging film, film rotting and turning solid, and it simply being destroyed or thrown away. Remember there have been a number of film vault fires, that destroyed massive swathes of film stock that was on the "will get a round tiut" list for conversion to newer stock or some other preservation method.

  • @jordan177606
    @jordan177606 3 роки тому +3

    The post processing looks fantastic. I kind of wish this upload was a higher bitrate so there would be less compression on the film grain. The uploads on the FT Depot are also 1080p but look slightly sharper on the low mm film. Can we have the original H264 files like in a google drive link?

    • @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112
      @mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112 3 роки тому

      Unfortunately, UA-cam removes a lot of the film grain. This makes the footage far less film-like and subjectively slighly lower-resolution. (But not really objectively - I’ve done a lot of pre/post comparisons with my high-quality S8 scans and found out that, while UA-cam does remove most of the grain, the noise reduction only very slightly reduces the resolution. So it’s not THAT bad. Nevertheless, I love film grain.)

  • @pomonabill220
    @pomonabill220 3 роки тому +2

    W"OW" what difference!!! It just shows what a good transfer company with good equipment can do!
    FORGET Legacy Box! i don't care how many good (shill) reviews they get!

  • @MichaelOKeefe2009
    @MichaelOKeefe2009 2 роки тому +2

    Back in the 1960s, California, specifically Los Angeles was introduced to the world of Spanish television in the form of KMEX Television Canal 34.........................Los Angeles.

  • @sdbelfort
    @sdbelfort 3 роки тому +2

    At first I was like... yeah, the quality really isn’t that great. By the end, I forgot I was watching a near- 60 year old tape. Impressive.

  • @Fluteboy
    @Fluteboy 3 роки тому

    3:05 - Techmoan - this music is for you! Those childhood holidays in Heysham and Cleveleys!

  • @crspwl1950
    @crspwl1950 3 роки тому

    That colour correction is remarkable.

  • @jhonwask
    @jhonwask 3 роки тому

    I like how he did the color correction.

  • @Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials
    @Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials 3 роки тому +1

    wow he did a great job!

  • @cid3384
    @cid3384 3 роки тому

    The Wolverine 8mm/S8 transfer machines become pretty awesome for the price once modified with the Hawkeye mod. There's even HDR scanning.

  • @onyourjackjones
    @onyourjackjones 3 роки тому +3

    Great job Brad! I’d use your services if I needed them. Does Brad do 16mm camera negatives?

  • @RoyHess666
    @RoyHess666 3 роки тому

    I'd like to see a side by side comparison between original and this transferred film.
    It is insane how they actually repaired the color fading

  • @filmofmarsproductions
    @filmofmarsproductions 3 роки тому +1

    That film came from my hometown