16-21 March 2025
BHSS, Academia Sinica
Asia/Taipei timezone

All the Pretty Horses: Virtual Unwrapping and the Problem of Damaged Film Negatives

19 Mar 2025, 12:00
30m
Room 2 (BHSS, Academia Sinica)

Room 2

BHSS, Academia Sinica

Oral Presentation Track 4: Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (SSAH) Applications Social Sciences, art & Humanities

Speaker

Prof. Brent Seales (University of Kentucky)

Description

This talk will discuss the technical challenge of using virtual unwrapping as a technique to restore damaged film negatives from more than a century ago. The technique is applied to film going all the way back to the early photographic explorations of Etienne Marney and Muybridge, whose photographic work determined that a galloping horse has all its hooves off the ground at one time at a certain point in its stride.

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