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That’s not a view many academics hold, however. Luke McKernan, lead curator of news and moving images at the British Library, was particularly scathing about Peter Jackson’s 2018 World War One documentary They Shall Not Grow Old, which upscaled and colourised footage from the Western Front. Making the footage look more modern, he argued, undermined it. “It is a nonsense,” he wrote. “Colourisation does not bring us closer to the past; it increases the gap between now and then. It does not enable immediacy; it creates difference.”

Oh cry me a river you stuffed shirted fuckwit. This is not just colourisation. This is far more advanced interpolating and general restoration. I could give less than half a shit what someone in an ivory tower thinks about how, somehow, making something seem more recent "creates difference". Note, nowhere is quoted an explanation of how that makes sense. Either this article is fake, and the journalist quoted a lot of people out of context, or everyone crying about it deserves the just scorn of all backward luddites crying about how TV killed radio.

Or as the kids say these days, get fucked boomer. Nobody cares.

[–]PencilPusher55 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right? I use Sony Vegas to interpolate old footage. Like I have old Bob Dylan concert footage from 1964 and I make it 60FPS. It feels like it was shot yesterday just from the fluidity in motion.... but combined with the AI colorization? This technology is incredible and we should be encouraging it. How anyone could find a problem with it is beyond me.