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The Lost Scenes of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons Are Being Controversially Restored with AI

Open Culture 20 May 2026 14h ago
The Lost Scenes of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons Are Being Controversially Restored with AI
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When television mogul Ted Turner died earlier this month, it gave cinephiles occasion to remember his brief but high-profile foray into colorization. In the mid-nineteen-eighties, he commissioned for broadcast colorized versions of more than 100 classic movies, from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre to It’s a Wonderful Life to Casablanca. It was only thanks to […]
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