Going back to listen to very old audio for movies is less than optimal. Recording in both video and sound simply wasn’t up to the standards we have today due to a lack of technological progress. Now, Adobe may be resolving the issue.
Have you ever heard the original audio recording done by Alexander Graham Bell? It’s hard to understand, it’s grainy, and heck, we had to use sophisticated technology to even figure out a way to read the original material in the first place. Frankly, it’s quite the miracle that it worked and that we can hear his voice from the 1800s. As time progressed, audio recordings were used to entice crowds to theaters, to provide music in the home, and to generate news on the radio. Going back and listening to older content can be tough though. After all, Steamboat Willey is an amazing accomplishment for Walt Disney, but today the voices are of very low quality in terms of fidelity.
Soon, however, you may be listening to Walt just as he sounded when he first performed Mickey Mouse.
Check out the following video in which Jim Henson’s voice is taken from the 1950s and transformed from the rough quality of the day into the caliber of recording we are accustomed to hearing later in his life. As you watch, just consider all of the older content which might benefit, especially as computers gain the ability to not only add color to black-and-white, but also to use sophisticated AI to restore all sorts of other missing qualities for realism.
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And then think of all the instant censorship we’ll get from IP owners who deem these older works “unfit for modern audiences”.