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No good can come of this. It's not directly attributed, but the source would sound credible:
"According to Mel Smith—friend of George Lucas and director of Radioland Murders—the creator of Star Wars is "buying up the film rights to dead actors." He says that Lucas plans to resurrect them in future movies using 3D technology:
George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you'd have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck alongside today's stars."
I suppose it's inevitable ever since they started colorizing classic films plus the advances they've made in digital tech. Me personally, I've always wanted to colorize the first part of Wizard of Oz and strike the rest to black and white.
I did see a very interesting restoration recently. Fritz Lang's Metropolis, not long after its release, was edited down and basically butchered by removing a good 45 minutes of it, this is according to the F.W. Muroe archivists and remaining scripts. A few years ago a film archive in South America was being moved to a new location, and a complete copy of Metropolis was discovered. It had the complete script from the shoot. The only problem was that it was on 16mm, so the edges of the frame were basically chopped. The Muroe Foundation rebuilt Metropolis, and it was aired on Turner Classic Movies about a month ago, along with a documentary on the discovery of the lost footage and their story.
It was very interesting to watch and the story was greatly improved. It was quite obvious where the recovered footage was inserted because the image quality degraded substantially and the frame became narrower, still, it made for a much better movie. I'm hoping that they'll restore the film to improve the quality of the old footage and to digitally build-out the frame to restore the crop, we'll see if that ever happens.
I suppose this mention of the lost Metropolis footage could be considered an argument in favor of digital alteration of known works and thus in favor of what Lucas apparently wants to do, but since the original shooting scripts and printed accounts of the original release exist, I see this as restoring a work to what it should have been, or at least as we can make it, since all of the people involved in the production are long since deceased.
http://gizmodo.com/5707079/george-lucas-plans-to-resuscitate-dead-movie-stars
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/08/1446236/George-Lucas-to-Resurrect-Dead-Movie-Stars
"According to Mel Smith—friend of George Lucas and director of Radioland Murders—the creator of Star Wars is "buying up the film rights to dead actors." He says that Lucas plans to resurrect them in future movies using 3D technology:
George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you'd have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck alongside today's stars."
I suppose it's inevitable ever since they started colorizing classic films plus the advances they've made in digital tech. Me personally, I've always wanted to colorize the first part of Wizard of Oz and strike the rest to black and white.
I did see a very interesting restoration recently. Fritz Lang's Metropolis, not long after its release, was edited down and basically butchered by removing a good 45 minutes of it, this is according to the F.W. Muroe archivists and remaining scripts. A few years ago a film archive in South America was being moved to a new location, and a complete copy of Metropolis was discovered. It had the complete script from the shoot. The only problem was that it was on 16mm, so the edges of the frame were basically chopped. The Muroe Foundation rebuilt Metropolis, and it was aired on Turner Classic Movies about a month ago, along with a documentary on the discovery of the lost footage and their story.
It was very interesting to watch and the story was greatly improved. It was quite obvious where the recovered footage was inserted because the image quality degraded substantially and the frame became narrower, still, it made for a much better movie. I'm hoping that they'll restore the film to improve the quality of the old footage and to digitally build-out the frame to restore the crop, we'll see if that ever happens.
I suppose this mention of the lost Metropolis footage could be considered an argument in favor of digital alteration of known works and thus in favor of what Lucas apparently wants to do, but since the original shooting scripts and printed accounts of the original release exist, I see this as restoring a work to what it should have been, or at least as we can make it, since all of the people involved in the production are long since deceased.
http://gizmodo.com/5707079/george-lucas-plans-to-resuscitate-dead-movie-stars
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/12/08/1446236/George-Lucas-to-Resurrect-Dead-Movie-Stars
