Remaster/Upscale Test - The Royal Procession (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 1972)

This doesn’t look great since it’s only a digital remaster I made with AI Enhancement and mixing two different sources by hand. It would be an interesting idea to do this to the whole film, but I don’t have a one time payment Enhancement software (such as Topaz) to use.

The Film was distributed by 20th Century Fox and The Rank Organisation in the UK, and American National Enterprises in the U.S.

The film did well in the UK box office, making $9 Million dollars (worldwide), meanwhile the more remembered movie from the previous year, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, only made $4 Million dollars. It had a lot of promotion with its winter release, including decorations in storefronts. It had an all-star British cast, including Fiona Fullerton (her debut with a main role), Michael Crawford (How I Won the War, Peter Sellers (Mr. Strangelove) and Roy Kinnear (Countless things, notably Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory from the year prior.) A Fun Fact is that Ringo Starr even showed up to the movie’s premier since his friend and co-actor from “The Magic Christian”, Peter Sellers, was staring in it. Ringo was quite fond of the Mock Turtle’s character and decided that he wanted to play that role one day. Lucky for him he actually got the role in the 1985 ABC adaption of “Alice In Wonderland”
The Movie did incredible in the UK, receiving 2 British Academy Film Awards the following year, and also did well in many foreign countries where the film was dubbed. The Film somewhat flopped
In the US however.

What you are seeing in this video is a combination of the Australian Unknown Label release (the Oracle release but slightly compressed) and a Spanish TV Airing of their copy (I don’t own the Spanish DVD or the Japanese DVD, unfortunately).
Since every source I’ve ever came across sounds horribly compressed when it comes to audio, I’m using the CD soundtrack for this clip. Unfortunately this can’t be achieved with every song since they aren’t all on the soundtrack. I’ve heard some good things about the Force Video release’s audio, but every release seems to be presented in Mono. The things that seem to fluctuate between each source is the volume of the vocals, speech, and SFX in comparison to the instrumental music, which leads me to suspect that that was the separation between the two OG stereo tracks (Side 1: Vocals, Speech, SFX; Side 2: Instrumental)

[host_theghost]

It is fantastic. I thought for a second they'd struck a new print off the negative. Would love to see the whole film done this way.

[oldmoviesspot]

Check the description for information on both how I made this video and a brief history of the film. If you have any key information or better sources of the film/enhancement softwares, I’d love to hear it in the comments.

[glittermutt]

hey, i know how to get topaz for free (safely!), would be really neat if you could upscale the entire thing with it! i love this movie and ive been searching for a high quality remaster for so long now