Can Artificial Intelligence Restore 85-Year-Old Popeye Cartoons?

**GodismyJudge** · 02-07-2021, 07:32 PM

Can Artificial Intelligence Restore 85-Year-Old Popeye Cartoons?
Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday February 07, 2021 @12:34PM from the strong-to-the-finish dept.
Can Artificial Intelligence Restore 85-Year-Old Popeye Cartoons? - Slashdot

A Slashdot reader shared an anonymous tip about "new consumer-grade artificial intelligence employed to restore 85 year-old Popeye cartoons, using only the available digital copies as sources for the remastering."

It's eerie to see vintage cartoons like Popeye the Sailor meets Sindbad the Sailor upgraded to high resolution. It's apparently the work of Cartoon Renewal Studios, a group "Dedicated to the loving and careful preservation of classic off-copyright animation" (according to its web site).

There's not much information, but Jim Ames of Cartoon Renewal Studios turned up in an online forum promising "we're restoring ALL the classic cartoons to brilliant 1080 HD so they can be enjoyed forever."

I've been dreaming of this project for some time... We will be posting THOUSANDS of off-copyright cartoons digitally remastered and upscaled to 1080 HD. We can process about 50 cartoons a month, at this time... Hoping to scale up to 100 cartoons a month processing capability next month.

We could finish 1000 cartoons in 2021... stay tuned...

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CARTOON RENEWAL STUDIOS
Cartoon Renewal Studios
Dedicated to the loving and careful preservation of classic off-copyright animation.....

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Cartoon Renewal Studios - YouTube

**FireBrand** · 02-07-2021, 08:48 PM

Felix!!

I need a collection of Jonny Quest.

**diakonos777** · 02-07-2021, 10:22 PM

Originally Posted by FireBrand

Felix!!

I need a collection of Jonny Quest.

Saturday morning favorite when I a young man.

**FunFromOz** · 02-08-2021, 12:58 AM

But are they still PC or will they cause snowflakes to melt?

**fuego** · 02-08-2021, 01:24 PM

Originally Posted by FireBrand

Felix!!

I need a collection of Jonny Quest.

Originally Posted by diakonos777

Saturday morning favorite when I a young man.

I used to love Johnny Quest. I still remember one episode where this ghost looking thing was floating around. lol.

Space Ghost was another one I really liked.

**FireBrand** · 02-08-2021, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by fuego

I used to love Johnny Quest. I still remember one episode where this ghost looking thing was floating around. lol.

Space Ghost was another one I really liked.

The electrically charged invisible monster that they tossed paint cans at so the could see the shape of it?

**fuego** · 02-08-2021, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by FireBrand

The electrically charged invisible monster that they tossed paint cans at so the could see the shape of it?

Ah. Could have been. I don't remember anything other than what it basically looked like. I don't remember the paint thing.

**fuego** · 02-08-2021, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by FireBrand

The electrically charged invisible monster that they tossed paint cans at so the could see the shape of it?

Well here you go. It was what you said.

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**fuego** · 02-08-2021, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by fuego

Well here you go. It was what you said.

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Wow. Just saw that Tim Matheson was the vote of Johnny. I had no idea.

**fuego** · 02-08-2021, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by FireBrand

The electrically charged invisible monster that they tossed paint cans at so the could see the shape of it?

Here is the scene of them throwing paint on it.

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