(Proposal) De-Instituted Film Restoration Project

What exactly do you mean by this?

Keep in mind that Harmy's took years to make and perfect, and that they had a large variety of decent-to-high quality sources to work with. It's a lot less feasible to adequately restore something that only exists in a low-quality web rip sourced from VHS, especially when we have tons of stuff found and there's no way to do all of it. We do have users here that try to restore stuff that they can, such as Notelu and togemet2 (if he's still around somewhere), but with a lot of found media, there's only so much you can do.

Even still frames with text can be used - I'm thinking of the restored version of Metropolis here. However, it would be tricky to restore footage when we don't have the source footage. In many cases, the source footage is lost or completely inaccessible.

Good to know!