Smile - Judy Garland - The Judy Garland Show 1963 - Colorized 4K 60FPS

Smile - Judy Garland - 1963 - Colour - 4K. Restored from the black and white video from 1963.

I've spent quite some time restoring this video, it's one of my favourites.

It’s restored from a capture of the TV episode in 1963 downloaded from YouTube so there are limits of what to expect. With the low bit rate the trade off with upscaling was going to be a loss of detail.

The process involved expanding the video into individual frames and resizing the frames to 8k so I have some wiggle room detail wise. I wanted to get every little detail that I could from the low bitrate video.

Then I created PS App Droplet to automatically edit and adjust each frame based on my edits to one frame. Then it automatically output the adjusted frames to my hard drive.

After this I imported the image sequence and recompiled the video using the same technique as animation.

From there I cropped the 8k video to 4k 16:9 which should pinch in the details and make it look a little better at that resolution.

In the end, I hope that I have something that stirs more vivid memories of the great actor and singer, Judy Garland.

[dennis]

Judy - Best there ever was or will be!!!

[marcballantyne]

I love how this is all done in a single take with one camera. All it does is pull out for the crescendo, and then it moves in close again. It is simply magical to see this amazing performance happening right in front of us.

[louisafeingold]

She sings with such emotion and power! It’s such a treat to watch her!

[stevers]

Beautiful! Wish they had shot the whole season in color, so this is a treat. Thanks!

[elspethcoogan]

Great to see Judy sing this in colour, as well as the famous Poppy dress!

[patxigarridodelgado]

The best artist in 20 century whith Édith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand. 🤩

[infamouscanadiandecomposer]

She looks so much younger in colour (color for Americans!) Now we could only wish - STEREO ! bob in toronto