A group called Scanners, Inc took the original negative from Carrie, and scanned it into an open-matte 16mm print. I don’t really know what point they are making with this exercise, but it turned out to be interesting for us, because the full negative includes more information above and below the 4K widescreen version, and that means more nudity from Sissy Spacek in the opening scene. (Nancy Allen and the others don’t seem to be significantly affected, but if you’re that interested, you can judge for yourself in the film clips linked below.)
I don’t have enough technical knowledge to explain why the whole 16mm version is so pink, but I think that sharpening the nudity up and restoring the colors would be an excellent use of AI.
Here’s a comparison:
Nancy Allen
Sissy Spacek
The film clips (HUGE downloads, and they won’t stream.)
If you have an ultra-speed connection, the entire 16mm version – all 54 gig of it – was online as of yesterday. (Third from the bottom.) In theory, that entire site is just a storage for open matte versions of films. I have not had time to comb through it carefully. If you have time to browse, you may find some treasures in there.
Maybe AI thinks those huge 70’s bushes are in fact, merkins. Human male intelligence would assume they were real because it was the 70’s, but AI does not have that bias. Now would it add a strap? That I’m not sure of.
For the record, here is the original and the picture I discarded.
Ah, maybe AI thought it was a bikini bottom and added the straps in, thinking that it was obscured. It does mess up the expression on her face though, as instead of deathly fear it’s more of an embarrassing prank.
If you look closely at the original, the AI didn’t differentiate her hip bone, which is why it ‘thought’ it was a strap. Which is fully distinguishable on the right (her left hip) than on the left (which the AI didn’t show a strap). It just ‘hallucinated’ what wasn’t there which is common in untrained AI MLs