The Deep View: … Orson Welles’ lost movie gets an AI resurrection

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Orson Welles’ lost film gets an AI resurrection
Amazon-backed startup Showrunner is using AI to bring lost Orson Welles footage back to life.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the company will use its new FILM-1 model to stitch together the missing 43 minutes of “The Magnificent Ambersons,” a follow-up to “Citizen Kane,” which infamously had a third of its footage erased by the studio before its 1942 release. 
Showrunner’s platform will combine AI tools such as face and pose transfer with traditional filmmaking to recreate lost scenes, utilizing archived set photos as the foundation for these recreations. 
Voices will blend AI-generated content with live actor readings.
For the project, Showrunner will collaborate with researcher and filmmaker Brian Rose, who has spent the past several years digitally rebuilding the some 30,000 missing frames from the film using notes, set photographs and production records. 
The Magnificent Ambersons Reconstructed – The First Four Minutes

https://youtu.be/GDi9t8UX_14
The final results won’t be commercialized as Showrunner hasn’t received approval from Warner Bros. or Concord. However, CEO Edward Saatchi said it could act as a blueprint for how AI could reshape the film industry moving forward.
Saatchi confirmed the plans in an interview with CNBC last week, describing the film as a “ruined masterpiece,” and saying AI is a way to bring the film “back to life.”
Showrunner started out at Fable Studio as an experimental firm working with AI to generate prompt-based episodes, with the company attracting controversy by creating unauthorized “South Park” episodes. 
With this project, the company showcases its aim to move beyond short-form AI-content generation to feature-length footage. 
Describing itself as “the Netflix of AI,” Showrunner ultimately hopes to give its users the power to generate their own TV episodes from just a few words of a prompt, a vision that could be as disruptive to Hollywood as Welles was in his day.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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