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[mariner]

My son sent me this extract from a 1962 film called "Flying Clipper 

 

https://www.imdb.com...ref_=fn_al_tt_1

 

It is some amazing footage of the 1962 GP at Monaco re mastered into 4K.

 

 

I am sure the source footage is rom 1962 based on the older scenery with no tall buildings etc. Whoever re mastered it into 4K has done an superb  job.

 

Any ideas on who, why and how for both the original film and the update ? 

 

 

 

 

[Collombin]

Wouldn't the original film have been in higher resolution than 4K? If so, the quality has been reduced!

Always good to see this clip again, even though it was last posted here just a few days ago!

[FlyingSaucer]

Wouldn't the original film have been in higher resolution than 4K? If so, the quality has been reduced!
 

 

Exactly. Tbh, what makes the big difference in this film (and other remastered films and shorts) is that it is at 60fps - that's the 'upscale' that matters.

 

This turns almost any footage of a classic race into something spectacular.

[Alan Baker]

Flying Clipper is one of the more obscure 70mm roadshow movies. Basically a travelogue following the crew of the eponymous sailing ship on a Mediterranean cruise, it played in the UK at the Dominion Tottenham Court Road for seven weeks from March 14th 1963. The US title was Mediterranean Holiday and it played under this title in London at the Coliseum Cinerama theatre for 3 weeks from April 15th 1965, presented in single lens Cinerama. The Monaco sequence makes up a small proportion of the film's 158 minute running time!

[GreenMachine]

Looks fantastic to me, both the video quality and the content (OK, a bit folksy, but given its origin that's understandable).  Do you seriously say that the resolution of that is no better than the contemporary film?  I would be surprised.

 

My bet is that there is been some serious photo/video processing technology at work here, including noise reduction, up-scaling and heaven knows what else - even allowing that the original was 70mm, not 35mm.  Interesting was the distortion of the windows on the big apartment block, as the airborne camera banked across the front at the end, whether that was an artifact of the original (I doubt it), or more likely the digitisation process itself, or some of the other post production processing.  That sort of distortion was a problem with some of the early DSLR video.

[marksixman]

I too have seen this before, but it is very good.

 

"Graham Hill in his Ferrari" ??!!  And McLaren initially mis-identified.

 

And who is the voice-over ?  Burl Ives ?

[Vitesse2]

Yes, it's Burl Ives: https://www.imdb.com...ref_=fn_al_tt_1