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To calm down my boiling blood, I'm watching Dr. Mabuse (der spieler) (the first part). It's been literal ages and boy, is this HD copy contrasted to hell and back. Sometimes I can barely tell people's facial features!

Which leads us to Bad Film Restoration, which is exactly what it says. TLDR, less is more. Don't go crazy on the cloning and noise reduction tool.

Conrad Veidt, ein magier der Leinwand disappeared from YouTube after many years of it being up. The channel was terminated. It was full of German movie documentaries you can't find anywhere else. Copyright is, indeed, against art preservation.

The documentary is on the Internet Archive for anyone's viewing pleasure. No subs though.

Comments

[liadt]

I feel a Freddy Kruger meme coming on... I listened to a film commentary this year about their restoration and said they had to keep fighting the software to stop taking an actor's eye out because the technology thought it was dirt.

:( for stuff disappearing off the 'net.