The Return of Billy the Kid (Extreme Photoshop Reconstruction)
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One of the most notorious and legendary gunmen in American History started his life humbly as William Henry McCarty around November 23, 1859-1861. William's skinny body, small hands, and effeminate features made him a target for bullying and teasing. They little realized that William was as brave as he was quick-witted. Little Billy also had a tremendous sense of humor and fun as well as a passion for music, singing, and dancing. A good student in school, he also enjoyed reading for his own pleasure and was soft spoken, mild mannered, courteous, loyal, and easygoing. Even his future enemies had to admit he was a rare, likable personality!
What would have been a promising future for William McCarty was destroyed the day his mother, Catherine, died on September 16, 1874 after a longstanding battle with tuberculosis. William's stepfather, William Antrim, packed the boys off to the Knight family for a while to continue their schooling before the boys were eventually split up and shifted from one foster home to another before their stepfather moved to Arizona, permanently abandoning them to their fate. William was barely thirteen or fourteen at the time.
While William was taking to independence well psychologically, he didn't have any money to sustain himself. His reckless bravery found a niche, however, and it started with stealing several pounds of butter from a rancher which he then turned around and sold to a merchant for cash. Even though he was caught and reprimanded by Sheriff Harvey H. Whitehill, it was the beginning of William's career in crime.
After later being caught with a bag of stolen laundry, William was arrested and sent to jail. He didn't stay long. William escaped prison by shuffling up the fireplace, then running off to one of his former foster homes for cover. They thought it best if he joined his stepfather in Arizona for gold prospecting, but once he arrived and explained to his stepfather what had sent him there, his stepfather said "If that's the kind of boy you are, GET OUT!"
William was stranded alone in Arizona, barely living and scratching at the earth for the means of life. His skinny, weak figure didn't earn him much work, since he didn't look strong enough to do any of it. When John Mackie, another thief, offered him an opportunity to work with him in stealing horses and saddles, William agreed. Though William was later arrested again, he escaped jail again. It was around this time that his famous nickname "Billy the Kid" was born.
In 1877, the "Kid"shot Frank "Windy" Cahill, one of his longtime tormenters who took great delight in knocking the skinny kid around and bullying him. It was during such a wrestling match that the Kid drew his .45 and fatally shot Cahill in the stomach. Soon after, the Kid fled to Lincoln County, where more gangs and more arrests followed. Even changing his name to William H. Bonney didn't keep him out of trouble for long. Because of his association with the main criminals in the Lincoln County War, he became a wanted man at the age of 17, because the general belief at the time was "If you knew who did it, you're as guilty of the crime as they are".
Billy the Kid's reputation began to travel ahead of him as sensationalist newspapers drew him up to be a lot worse and more notorious than he ever really was, with the murderous deeds of his outlaw cronies being placed on his head instead of theirs. An ambitious sheriff, Pat Garrett, made it his mission to make himself famous for taking down Billy the Kid. Though the versions of Billy the Kid's last days are almost as numerous as the grains of sand on a beach, the truth is that Billy was tracked and plotted against until he ran out of places to hide, and that last place was Pete Maxwell's house in Fort Sumner. Ambushed under what some say was false pretenses, Billy the Kid was caught off guard and fatally shot July 14, 1881. There was enough doubt concerning the legitimacy of the shooting that Pat Garrett did not get hailed as a hero as he thought he would be. In fact, he spent the rest of his life trying to convince the public that he regretted the shooting, which seems to the rest of us only true because he did not get the results he wanted from it. Billy the Kid finally had true justice only after his death, as it was he who was hailed as an American legend...and Pat Garrett was all but forgotten.
-I often listened to Pat Benatar's "The Outlaw Blues" while restoring this piece, which I found to be very appropriate and inspiring.
-Billy the Kid was said to be about 5 feet 8 inches tall and about 138 lbs with "light" hair and eyes.
-This photo of Billy the Kid is the only authenticated portrait of the famous outlaw. It was sold at auction in June 2011 for $2.3 million dollars, and the photo itself is barely wallet-sized!
We still don't know what it was like to look directly at Billy the Kid, look at the loading gate on the Winchester, reverse the image and then you'll know what he really looked like, everybody misses that one, including all the historians who have said in the past that he was left handed.
Were seeing Billy how he saw himself in the mirror if you think about it , we saw ourselves the wrong way round to what everybody else saw us, until modern phones and photos.
I've seen two versions of that infamous Billy the kid picture was he holding the gun in his right or left hand in the original?
@@GeneralSherm
In the original he's got the rifle in his right hand and his pistol is in a holster on his left hip (as shown here), but what you have to understand is that those old tin type pictures are like a negative, they're reversed, so if you were to reverse this picture you'll see him as if you were looking at him, or looking at a modern picture of him.
You can tell this is the original tin type version by the Winchester rifle, look at it, the loading gate is on the left side of the receiver, that's the wrong side, they never made them with a left side loading gate, ergo it's a reverse image of him.
@@dukecraig2402 ok thank you for the longest time I couldn't figure which one was correct
@@GeneralSherm
It's a little confusing to try to explain because this is the original but it's a reverse image of him because it's a tin type, it's why for years historians mistakenly thought he was left handed (the pistol being on his left hip) but none of the (cough cough) historians realized that tin types are reversed (roll eyes back).
Outstanding job. You brought Billy, the kid back to life and granted all your viewers a glimpse of how exactly Billy looked. Kudos !
That is actually a poor photo of Billy. In fact, many of his own friends stated that, that photo of him does not do him justice. If you want to see a clear photo of Billy then there is one of him sitting and playing cards with some of his gang which you can find on Google.
@@KruglugBadax allegedly!+
This is a post mortem picture of Billy after Garrett shot him.
@@suzvalentino1901not at all
I've read the book about his life many times, seeing a clear picture of him brings all the the stories back to me. great job.
Thanks.
Fucking amazing!. We've always seen that blurry and grainy picture now we know what Billy really looked like. Very very awesome work
They say there's other old tintypes of Billy out there besides this most well-known one, with one of them, a gentleman who looks like Billy in the face possibly being his son but who really knows.
i can hear all the girls screaming now "Please marry me Billy!"
If you mean back in 1870s then no girls were not screaming for him as you can see this is a boy and girl like male man and at that time girls wanted real men not little boys with soft skin but if you ment todays girls then maybe yes
250txc I don’t think so, he has deformed eyes
@@oliver-ty3im He was a ladies man said by fellow regulators. Had a lot of charm.
@@Red-hk9gb maybe. But girls didnt want him he wanted girls
@@oliver-ty3im who are you Jesse james?
That was fucking awesome! That's like seeing the kid for the first time. Nice work
Great job I wasn't sure what to expect but when you started redoing the pic if was so incredible. Billy the kid has always been one of my favorite outlaws. Thanks for the show
Yeah, That helps clear up that old image. Nice job.
Thank you..I love Billy
It's about time they pardoned Billy the KID! He was a Loyal Pal to anyone who was loyal to him. Hell he fought in every fight that occured over the death of Tunstall, and rode away from it. But never ran away, he chose to stay, which cost him is life in the end. Billy i salute you!
would love a life size copy of this....
WOW!! I've seen that crusty old photo forever and not until now can really see the person (and personality) in it! GREAT job!
Yes! He was known for his beautiful blue eyes.
Great work but it is still a mirror image of the original pose.
Brilliant! Great job! Long live outlaw billy the kid!
Paulita Maxwell said in her later years that she always hated this picture of Billy because of the way he looked in it.
I wonder if his teeth really looked like that? Or that is what became distorted/crooked? He might have had straight teeth (maybe he spoke to the photographer..."how much longer"?) lol...otherwise he would be quite good looking imo
I have wanted to see this done for a long time. This photo is often described as the only authenticated portrait of The Kid. What we know from many different sources is that Billy was an attractive, lively, likable young man. This photo has made it difficult to see that. Cleaning the photo up this way certainly helps. I'm puzzled by the decision to leave the image flipped the wrong way, but in general I'm glad you addressed all the little things you did.
Since tin type photos were mirror images, the final step would be to flip it so Billy is right-handed, again. The loading gate on the Winchester rifle substantiates this.
Absolutely amazing! He cleans up nicely! I think I noticed an arm holding up the mirror on one side and some fingers closer to the top on the other. I love the music- very nice!
This is awesome! I always imagined that his sweater was green and hid shirt was blue. But who knows..
Great work! Thank so much for putting in that face close-up! I was just dying to see it a bit closer!
I grew up in New Mexico and spent a great deal of time in Lincoln, Fort Sumner and other Billy haunts. The photo you used as your starting point depicts Billy as left-handed, and is thought to have resulted from a flipped negative in the printing process. Billy was supposedly right-handed. Other than that you did an outstanding job.
Absolutely incredible!
It was a creative decision to leave the photo flipped the wrong way round, as it's the version most people are used to and the one that is most popularly portrayed. In any case, Billy was POSING with the gun, not firing it, so it ultimately doesn't matter which hand was holding it.
Again....amazing restoration. I will buy a print! Very well done.
and you have done an outstanding job jude maris
Awesome! The facial reconstruction is excellent and really captures his eyes. He was a killer, no doubt about it.
Your partly right his eyes are dead because this is a post mortem of the man. I know this because of studying post mortem work in photography. Notice Billy's nose damage. Pat Garrett wanted proof he shot the Kid so he could collect the money for killing Billy.
The work done here was truely amazing! Thanks for sharing it. It gives us a better idea of how he looked.
Everything about him has disappeared without a trace, this is all we have left of him.
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you blow my mind every time.. luv your music.. good pic.. probably luwig who actually took the original photo
Now that was cool. Kudos
Love the banjo music! It fits!
He looks my cousin Jimmy in this photo. I overheard he carried a Colt Frontier .44.40 Single Action Revolver & a Colt .38.41. Double Action Lightning Thunderer Revolver. It was said he also had a Winchester Model 1866 carbine, but really had an 1873 Whitney & Kennedy Rifle which was a rare British manufacturer Hog Rifle/Army Lever Action. The Caliber was 44.40.
Nicely Done
Thank you so much for doing this one! Great job cleaning up this picture, awesome!
Amazing what technology can do!
now council wants to kick me out of my home and demolish this tower block... pissed off, lived here for 25 years. dont want to go.
Fantastic job! Now you can see he is very young...just a kid.
That was nothing short of amazing !!!! You just have to love the technology we have at our finger tips to be able to do such an awesome job with that photo. Great vid well done.
There cant be just one photo of someone in that persons lifetime.
This is unheard of.
Amazing likeness, I remember riding with kid down in New Mexico , he was an ok guy.
judemaris- you did a wonderful job. it clears up a lot of the blurring and irregularities. and to all that are so 'SERIOUS' csi mofos, i understand it is a tin, this person did a great job on the tin pic itself. looks great.
Amazing. Come-to-life qualities. Good job.
But, I seem to remember that the original was actually "flopped"--bilaterally so. In other words, it was "mirror imaged" such that his right, as depicted, was actually his left and vice versa. This absolutely brilliant restoration seems to bear this out.
The buttons of his vest are on the left side, which is the traditional side for buttons of women's apparel. Men's buttons are always on the right.
While still a wonderfully faithful repro, I think flopping it yet again would make it more so. My opinion, of course.
Equally great banjo pickin', too. Kudos to all.
awesome as fuck
"Good lookin kid. Gotta way with the women. Dresses like a dandy and he's a left hander. Some say he's fond of whistlin sad ballads."
Nice job but it would have been nice if you had inverted it so it would have correctly shown he was right handed. I don’t know why allot of historians still won’t correct the misconception that he was left handed. The rifle and vest are clearly shown inverted.
Loved it!!!
excellent work.
That was beyond cool...Thanks! You ever see Justin Shaws photo? Suppose to be a new found Billy The Kid photo.
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Shows how he actually lööked like. Color and everything. Good job.
I love your work it is wonderful. and it seems like the Person get back to life. i dont know why but when i was watching it seems like he was smiling at me and the end. :D
Cool. You can tell he was Irish.
kilgore trout or german
Hammerschlägen M i think if he where dead in this photo I don’t think he’ll be able to hold a rifle
Hammerschlägen M and I do believe it is billy the Kid as well after watching a video this guy went in to do much detail about the origin of this very photo and gave good evidence about it
Hammerschlägen M the video I watched is by some one called Jerry skinner
Hammerschlägen M agreed your a real smart guy not like the rest of the dimwits in our society today and I’m only 18 so I think I’ve a good head on my shoulders not to end up like the rest of my generation lol 😂
"WOW"
BEAUTIFUL
Very very kkkkkk muito gostoso
wow...actuaually, I made over 500 movies on VHS over the millenium.. remember the Millenium.. didnt think so... could use a little help in restoration...... ever played a tape 5000 times... they do wear out..
Excellent !!!! ✨✨✨
And not before time...great work....
Top job mate.
I got to thinking while watching this video that it would be relatively easy to finally determine Billy’s exact height by measuring the Winchester Rifle length (which should certainly be known), & then calculating his exact height from that!
You should find all the pictures of Billy the Kid and see if they match with your photo. That would be so fun to see.
Yay! This helped :).I am VERY INTERESTED in history and this helped me see what he looked like
Should have turned the photo around. Rifle's on the wrong side, side arm's on the wrong side( he was right handed) buttons on the vest are on the wrong side (girls wear them on that side), other then that, it's pretty good and clear.
He looks like Rorschack from Watchmen .
But the print is backwards. He was right handed.
@M S It still doesn't work. A tintype flips the image. If you were there in real life, the rifle would be in HIS left hand. This is proven by the loading gate being on the wrong side and the the fact that tintypes are a reverse image. The original commenter meant that the pistol should be on his right side and the rifle in his left hand.
What you see on the Winchester is the side plate, Not the loading gate. Both sides have aside plate, only. The right has loading gate. If you reversed the picture ,either the loading gate on wrong side it isn’t on ,or it shows up out of. Nowhere.
Several years ago, a woman viewing this photo realized that the image is reversed by determining that the buttons on his clothing was on the wrong side!
You didn’t do Billy justice. You removed a layer early that gave him his true grit look and now he looks like an illustration
Notice on the left side of the photo there is someone holding a light reflector? You can see the right arm just above the stand and the left hand alignd with Billy's jaw.
Amazing!
Excellent
Fantastic work. Fascinating..
I will bet you a dollar that M.A. Ludwig took the original photograph ... scary thing history
They make the Kid look like Elvis !
that was amazing
perfect...!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gosh he was just a baby really, great work. Was this a mirror image ?
Thank you so much! Awesome work!
Amazing
"It's The Kid" !!!!!
He reminds me of a young Tom Petty.
thank you
in this video his face is perfect like him.thanks
Well. Like I said. It would be only for personal use. This is a great restoration and the color is top form. Would love to have a print hanging on my wall.
So that's what he looked like
Very nice
He looks creepy like he's already dead
Because this famous picture is actually a post-mortem photo of BTK, which history has totally over looked! You can clearly see the distortion of his features, misalignment of his eyes, his empty gaze, half-open stiff mouth, etc., and how he's actually being propped up and holding a rifle for display. Sad the "experts" and history buffs have always ignored these facts.
Love your work !
That was excellent.
thank you Ludwig...
The reason he looked so weird in that photo is because he was super drunk when it was taken
Great job, thanks for posting.....lol, can hear an 'ol College Prof. of Psychiatry upon viewing this saying:..."...Yes, class, the visage--THAT, is the 'look' of a Psychotic, cocky, S.O.B...just look at that inner sneer for anyone or thing. Truly, the face of a Serial Killer--who kills for the pleasure of killing."
Actually the kid never started any fights he just finished them.
Excellent!!
Awesome
You did a great job!
fantastic...tune in
I have read in the past that he was my a good looking young man. This proves it.
left handed winchesters were rare. I know a man that is left handed and shoots his rifle right handed, mainly because when he was young, left handed winchesters were so rare.
Thats remarkable....