Topic: film restoration
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Showrunner Aims to Use AI to Restore Lost Orson Welles Footage
Showrunner is using AI to recreate the lost footage from Orson Welles' *The Magnificent Ambersons*, which was drastically cut by the studio against his wishes. The project combines generative AI with historical research, using Welles' notes and digital face-swapping to approximate the original ca...
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AI Firm Aims to Recreate Lost Hollywood Masterpiece with Amazon Backing
Amazon is supporting an AI-driven project by Showrunner to reconstruct the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles' *The Magnificent Ambersons* using generative technology and traditional filmmaking. The process involves filming with live actors and applying AI face and pose transfer, using archival phot...
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