Dangerous Short Films are currently being upscaled to 4K on YouTube!

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Its sad that AI upscaling became the solution.

I made a video about this statement, 3 years ago :

Yes, many music videos were edited on video rather than on 35mm, so they don’t have a 35mm master. But that doesn’t change anything, because there are countless audiovisual works that don’t have a 35mm master and are currently being reassembled from the original 35mm camera negatives. MacGyver from 1985, to name just one, has 139 episodes of 50 minutes each, all re-edited in HD. So it’s really not that complicated.

As for films that are “lost,” they usually resurface with a bit of effort. As I said, every year films or fragments of films more than 100 years old are rediscovered. Nothing is impossible. And to me, the explanation given by the Estate raises more questions than it answers.

Finally, in Bad 25 we clearly see that they have 35mm raw behind-the-scenes footage from Bad, Leave Me Alone or whatever, but apparently not the actual films themselves. It makes absolutely no sense. At this point they’re totally capable of giving us an AI-upscaled version of Bad. Just imagine that. It’s shameless, but this is the situation we’re in. They’re just too lazy to search for, or work on, the film elements and reassemble them.

For Black or White alone, they uploaded a supposedly “censored” version because the zipper scene was missing. So a fan sent an email to the estate. They replied that they had gotten it wrong because the tapes were badly labeled, according to them. They literally didn’t even watch the original music video to compare it with what they uploaded. How is that even acceptable?

 

[AcielTwilight]

Just imagine if they give us an AI upscaled version for Smooth Criminal

 

[wonderouzmj]

I made a video about this statement, 3 years ago :

Yes, many music videos were edited on video rather than on 35mm, so they don’t have a 35mm master. But that doesn’t change anything, because there are countless audiovisual works that don’t have a 35mm master and are currently being reassembled from the original 35mm camera negatives. MacGyver from 1985, to name just one, has 139 episodes of 50 minutes each, all re-edited in HD. So it’s really not that complicated.

As for films that are “lost,” they usually resurface with a bit of effort. As I said, every year films or fragments of films more than 100 years old are rediscovered. Nothing is impossible. And to me, the explanation given by the Estate raises more questions than it answers.

Finally, in Bad 25 we clearly see that they have 35mm raw behind-the-scenes footage from Bad, Leave Me Alone or whatever, but apparently not the actual films themselves. It makes absolutely no sense. At this point they’re totally capable of giving us an AI-upscaled version of Bad. Just imagine that. It’s shameless, but this is the situation we’re in. They’re just too lazy to search for, or work on, the film elements and reassemble them.

For Black or White alone, they uploaded a supposedly “censored” version because the zipper scene was missing. So a fan sent an email to the estate. They replied that they had gotten it wrong because the tapes were badly labeled, according to them. They literally didn’t even watch the original music video to compare it with what they uploaded. How is that even acceptable?

the rage in me right now about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!