question: How can recordings from the 80's (like Queen performances) be converted into HD and look like it was filmed yesterday?
comment: Regular film is really high resolution. Even if it was broadcast at a lower resolution back in the day. Movies, stored on film, can be scanned to 8k with little to no issues - mostly depending on the quality of the film and storage conditions over the years.
passages: Restoration was completed at Premier. The film scanning and restoration team worked closely with director John Walsh, re-mastering from the original 35mm colour camera negative after it was discovered in a vault almost 20 years after it was originally filmed. In an interview about the project for the BBC, John Walsh explained:
   Every frame of film was scanned in high definition at Premier and had more than 10,000 particles removed by hand by the restoration team. A new sound mix was also created from the original elements in Premier’s in-house audio department. In an article with "The Weekender" in November 2017 John discussed the importance restoration and preservation of older films to future-protect film such as "Monarch":
  
  Section::::Reception.
   In June 2015 the 1965 film "The Mood Man" was also transferred from the original 35mm negative to HD files by Encore at 142 Wardour Street in London. The film features Ross McManus singing "If I Had A Hammer" and the original negative was transferred to HD for use in a concert tour by Ross MacManus' son, Elvis Costello. Prior to this transfer a copy of the film originating from a 16mm print had been the only copy of the film available. The 35mm negative of the Ross McManus song was released to Cinelab London who transferred the extract to 4K and undertook further minor restoration for a DVD release of Elvis Costello's 2015 tour.
   The show was originally recorded on a specially-made analogue High-definition video system called "Image Vision", provided by Image Transform from Universal City, California. German Bosch Fernseh KCK-40 cameras were used that had been custom-modified to output a 655 lines, 24fps, 10 MHz video signal that was recorded on 1 inch type B VTRs. Simultaneously, this signal was recorded via a 3M Electron Beam Film Recorder to 16mm film, from which 35mm blow-up prints were made for theatrical release.
   The concert duration and set-list for each Queen show progressed significantly during its career, eventually leading to shows exceeding two hours. Queen performed most of the songs released on their studio albums during concerts. Many of their concerts (especially those during tours in the 70s) have been recorded on videotape. Examples include shows in: Rainbow Theatre (1974), Hammersmith Odeon (1975), Hyde Park (1976), Earls Court (1977), The Summit (1977), and the Hammersmith Odeon (1979). So far, two shows have been officially released, which are the November 1974 show at the Rainbow and the Christmas Eve 1975 show at the Hammersmith Odeon. Footage from other 70s shows exists, especially from Japan in 1975/1976 and Europe in 1978/1979.
   The remastered and restored show was shown at a special screening on 8 October 2015 at Olympic Studios Cinema, Barnes, where some of "A Night at the Opera" had been recorded.
   Film is absolutely right for this project. It has scale, big exterior locations and that's something that still challenges HD ... The HD cameras available to us on our budget are still vulnerable in difficult weather conditions [encountered during filming]. There's no doubt that what we've got on 35mm is just so much more detailed. It has so much more depth of field and richness than we could have got on HD.
  
  Section::::Production.:Historical inaccuracies.
   The first drama film shot using the HDVS professional video camera is RAI's "Julia and Julia (Italian: Giulia e Giulia") in 1987, and the first HDTV television show was CBC's "Chasing Rainbows", shot using the HDVS system in 1988. For the Genesis Invisible Touch Tour shows at Wembley Stadium in July 1987, the Sony HDVS system was used to film these shows and later released in VHS and LaserDisc in 1988 and DVD in 2003.
   In 1984, an edited restoration of "Metropolis" (1927) was released with a new rock music score by producer-composer Giorgio Moroder. Although the contemporary score, which included pop songs by Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, and Jon Anderson of Yes, was controversial, the door had been opened for a new approach to the presentation of classic silent films.
   To enhance the contrast of their different worlds, shots involving the Queen were taken in 35mm film and those of Tony Blair in 16mm film.
  
  Section::::Production.:Television viewership and home media.
   Section::::Featured people.:Rockie Blunt.
   In 2007, Queen released a special edition of "Queen Rock Montreal" on Blu-ray and DVD formats containing their 1981 concert from The Forum in Montreal, Canada, and their complete Live Aid performance, along with Freddie Mercury and Brian May performing "Is This the World We Created...?" from the UK Live Aid finale, all re-mixed in DTS 5.1 sound by Justin Shirley-Smith — this marked the first Live Aid material officially released in a high-definition/Blu-ray format. Also included is their Live Aid rehearsal, and an interview with the band, from earlier in the week.
   Whenever the BBC has broadcast programmes or events in 3D, there were other technical changes made to the channel that accompanied it. The BBC's first broadcast of the Wimbledon finals in 2011 saw the screen resolution increased from the usual 1440 by 1080 to 1920 by 1080 between 13 June and 6 July. Equally, the same occurred for the 2011 "Strictly Come Dancing" final when the resolution was changed between 8 December 2011 and 5 January 2012. An increase to 1920 horizontal resolution was again observed on 30 May 2012 as part of the preparations of 2012's 3D broadcasts.
  
  Section::::Broadcast.:Presentation.
   Section::::Production.
  
  The majority of the film was shot on a single 16mm camera, using Fuji 500 ASA film, in a . The time-lapse shots were recorded with an Arriflex camera mounted to a rail of the theater balcony. Music from the stage production itself was paired with the footage of the stagehands' work. Though the footage was shot in 1990, the film was not completed until 1998.
  
  Section::::Release and reception.
   The film was shot in one main location: Vox Recording Studios in Hollywood, California.  Originally built in 1936 and named Electro-Vox, the studio is “said to be the oldest private recording studio in the world”. The studio was emptied of all current sound recording equipment and furniture, then dressed in period fixtures and fittings before bringing in the Western Electric Recording System. The set designer attempted to make the studio feel as close to how a studio would have felt in the 1920s in an attempt to give the musicians the feeling of being taken back in time to an actual recording session as described in the "American Epic" documentary series. The film had one secondary location, Sophie's Seat Design in Hollywood, California, which was featured when former upholsterer, Jack White, took the broken belt of the recording lathe to be re-sewn.
   McClain and Branca also revealed that multiple U-matic masters of other performances from the tour did exist, but were unusable. One of the few usable master recordings the Estate possesses from the Bad tour was the performance in Yokohama, Japan in 1987. However, the Estate opted not to release this, as they considered it to be nothing more than a modified version of the Victory Tour with three extra songs. This concert also aired on Japanese television. As a result, the Estate stated that a video enhancement lab was hired to restore the VHS copy of Wembley.
  
  Section::::Critical reception.
   High-definition pre-recorded media and compression
  
  The first attempt at producing pre-recorded HDTV media was a scarce Japanese analog MUSE-encoded laser disc which is no longer produced (see MUSE-LD).
   "Putting It Together" was also recorded in high definition with 10 cameras. The music of Stephen Sondheim, featuring orchestrations by Academy Award, Tony Award, and Emmy Award, winner Jonathan Tunick, was captured in 5.1 surround sound.
  
  Section::::Broadway productions filmed.:"Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical" (2001).
  
  Broadway Worldwide captured its third Broadway musical, the Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse musical Jekyll & Hyde, starring David Hasselhoff.
   Welch stated in a 2012 interview that three form-fitting bikinis were made for her, including two for a wet scene and a fight scene, by costume designer Carl Toms: "Carl just draped me in doe-skin, and I stood there while he worked on it with scissors." Many noted photographers had been flown to Tenerife by 20th Century Fox on a publicity junket, but the iconic pose of Welch was taken by the unit still photographer. The poster was a story element in the film "The Shawshank Redemption".
  
  Section::::Production.:Music.
   A film crew were on hand to capture footage of the event, some of which was shown as part of the BBC show "Man Alive", about the concert. A short excerpt of The New Animals can be seen performing, as can John Lennon in the crowd. Photos of Pink Floyd's set clearly show that some of theirs was also filmed, but the footage has never been seen.
   For a quarter of a century, all cinema and home video releases of the show were sourced from the 35mm prints, and thus suffered from poor quality due to the tape-to-film recording technology used in 1980 that increasingly became out-of-date. In 2008, the original 655 lines/24 FPS, 1-inch video tapes were digitized and remastered to create a high-quality PAL DVD release.
   This performance of the play was filmed with six cameras in high-definition video during its successful five-week run at The Comedy Theatre in Melbourne, Australia from April 5 to May 12, 2013. A local crew was used for the six-camera shoot and Melbourne-based independent company Soundfirm completed all post-production – picture and sound.
   Pre-production began in July 2017 in the United Kingdom, with principal photography commencing in London in September 2017. Queen archivist Greg Brooks was instrumental in helping recreate each scene to make it as true to life as possible. He worked daily with Fox for months from the beginning, providing answers to questions. There were about a hundred extras, who were all individually scanned 360° and digitally replicated to imitate a larger crowd. The entire Live Aid performance was filmed on a giant set at the former airfield RAF Bovingdon, but in the final cut "We Will Rock You" and "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" were cut out.
   Massot hurriedly assembled a crew in time for Led Zeppelin's last leg of the tour starting on 23 July 1973, in Baltimore. He subsequently filmed the group's three concert performances at Madison Square Garden on the nights of 27, 28, and 29 July 1973. The film was entirely financed by the band and shot on 35mm with a 24-track quadraphonic sound recording. The live footage in the US alone cost $85,000.
  
  Section::::Original filming.
   As an official part of the London 2012 Festival celebrations, a new digitally re-mastered version of "Chariots of Fire" was screened in over 100 cinemas throughout the UK. The re-release began on 13 July 2012, two weeks before the Olympic opening ceremony. A 2012 stage adaptation of the same title also coincides with the Olympics, opening 9 May at London's Hampstead Theatre and transferring to the West End on 23 June.
  
  Section::::Fashion.
  
presuppositions: Old films are low resolution. Film used from the 80s were not high resolution.
corrections: The raw footage of old films is actually very high resolution and can be scanned up. Film used from the 80s were really high resolution but broadcast at a lower resolution in that time.
raw_presuppositions: Old films are low resolution. Film used from the 80s were not high resolution.
raw_corrections: The raw footage of old films is actually very high resolution and can be scanned up. Film used from the 80s were really high resolution but broadcast at a lower resolution in that time.