One Of The Many Great Things,

about computers in the right hands,

is the ability to take old grainy images and films and make them more true to how they really looking if they were filmed today, point in case is the historic 1896 The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, Denis Shiryaev has found a way to clarify the world’s earliest films and their signature grainy textures, and it really works, from the grainy footage he transforms the film is into a 50-second film that suddenly reveals distinct faces of the passengers scrambling to get on the train, in addition to details on the locomotive that otherwise were undistinguishable in the original version, according to Peta Pixel, Shiryaev first used Topaz Lab’s Gigapixel AI to upgrade the film’s resolution to 4K, followed by Google’s DAIN, which he used to create and add frames to the original file, bringing it to 60 frames per second, made in France, the 35 mm film bears a legend allegedly stating that the first viewers of the silent production were so frightened by the moving train that they all ran out of the room, it was created with an all-in-one camera that served as a printer and projector,

above the original film,

and here is the completed film in all of its new found glory, amazing!