Laurel & Hardy - Putting Pants On Philip, 1927. AI Enhanced. Sharpest & Cleanest Version On YT HD
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2023
- "Putting Pants On Philip" is a silent short film featuring the beloved comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy. Created in 1927, it marks their initial collaboration as an official team. The story revolves around Laurel's character, Philip, a young Scottish man who has just arrived in America, proudly wearing his traditional kilt. Throughout the film, Philip encounters amusing misfortunes involving his kilt, while his uncle, portrayed by Hardy, endeavors to dress him in trousers.
In their extensive career spanning from 1921 to 1950, Laurel and Hardy starred in a remarkable total of 107 films. The concept for "Putting Pants On Philip" originated from Stan Laurel, inspired by a tale shared by a friend during his time performing on the music hall circuit. Regarded as a comedic gem from the late 1920s, this film holds a distinctive place among all the Laurel and Hardy comedies, as described by archivist William K. Everson, "one of the real gems of comedy from the late 1920s and perhaps the most individual of all the Laurel and Hardy comedies."
Although this film marks their official collaboration, it predates the establishment of their iconic characters, Stan and Ollie, and their recognizable costumes. The familiar personas of "Stan and Ollie" made their first appearance in the film "The Second Hundred Years," directed by Fred Guiol and overseen by Leo McCarey, who proposed that the two performers form a permanent duo.
"Putting Pants On Philip" was partially filmed at the historic Culver Hotel. The film was released on December 3, 1927.
All though the best quality version of this film was used as the AI source material there was still an enormous amount of scratches, marks, dust etc. on the film. A huge amount of this has been removed but much also a large amount remains, though it is now much less noticeable and will present much less of a distraction from enjoying the film. All scenes were the main characters are overlaid with film damage have been fixed. If not by AI then manually, around 100 frames have been individually edited to remove damage. A lot of work has gone in to cleaning this film up and upscaling with AI.
✔ Tone balanced, dark sections made lighter/light sections made darker.
✔ Original film dissected for multi part AI processing.
✔ AI settings testing, optimised for the best upscale.
✔ Stabilised.
✔ Scratches, blemishes and other damage removed.
✔ Image noise removed.
✔ Image details recovered.
✔ Face details recovered.
✔ Manual frame by frame editing.
✔ Film sharpened.
✔ Upscaled to HD.
The film is entirely silent.
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Unbelievable how good this looks. Imagine if all their films were done like this. How this brings them so much closer to now..
This restoration is fantastic! To think that so many silent films sadly no longer exist due to decay, deliberately destroyed for the film stock's silver content etc. 8:38 Stan did it first, nearly thirty years before Marilyn stood over the grate in "The Seven Year Itch" 😄😄
i grew up in the 60's watching these guys loved them then and about 65 yrs later was bout 1958 or 59 we got our 1st tv set when ever see them on tv i be in front of our tv.
I've been watching LAUREL AND HARDY ever since I was a kid growing up in England years later,I discovered there earlier silent movie shorts they were twice as funny as there later ones when they added sound.This has got to be their funniest.R.I.P Stan and Ollie and thanks for the laughs.
*Whisper more upscaled silent L&H classics are on the way ;)
Great quality thank you
Wonderful restoration! Much sharper and cleaner than I've ever seen. Thank you for the skill, dedication, and hard work.
Thank you for your womdeful comment.😀
I couldn't stop laughing when they tried to measure Laurel for pants. And afterwards, he felt like he lost his dignity. He was such a good comedian. It would have been nice to add music to this.
No it wouldn’t, there maybe a score sent to cinemas somewhere but modern sensibilities are so inflated I prefer silent
@@naradaianbut then, you can always turn the sound off, but without music there are no options. These were intended for an accompaniment after all.
I play it with 75% speed, so it's not too hectic
The window scene at the tailors is my fave…as the penny drops so slowly and where the dame gives Ollie the finger
Lovely
Sharp picture indeed--well done
Verdict:
Negative ending for Oliver Hardy.😉
genius
OMG this is soooooo funny
never see before, great movie, thank you!!!
Wow!
pardon my naivete, but i didn't even know laurel and hardy had silent films..makes sense when taking into account their entire aesthetic though....
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Film (1927). Laurel and Hardy "Putting Pants on Philip" (Short).
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Too bad no sound but oh my God so funny.😂😂😂
You have more silent movies in this Quality ? I synchronize movies from Laurel & Hardy in full HD with German audio from Hans Dieter Hüsch and the German series from 1980 *Zwei Herren Dick und Doof* in this series a German commentator speaks the voices of Stan and ollie on silent movies ☺️ thats my hobby and this version looks great 😍
Are those with Theo Lingen's voice? I loved them when they were shown on German TV. Any chance of getting to see them again?
The chanel owner didnt like your comment, she didnt give you the heart neither to mine😂
@@CamhiRichard Yes, the Movies are with a Intro from Theo Lingen but only the Full Movies the Little Short Movies from Laurel & Hardy are not with Theo Lingen, Theo Lingen was only a commentator of the Laurel & Hardy feature films.
@@takashiimotaki9593 But he answerd my on a Privat Email ;-) Everything is fine ;-)
Great AI restoration although slightly awkward without the musical score
She was eagar expecting for lips to lips not just flying
Just flying is sign avoiding ignoring
How'd you make this, and what software did you use, cus I would love to do a similar thing.
Adobe Premiere Pro, Topaz Video AI, Neat Video and lots and lots of Photoshop for this particular film. You also need a good Nvidia chip in your system and the more memory that has and you system has the better.
Source the best quality film.
Set up in Premiere Pro.
Balance the tone across all scenes, if necessary.
Run Neat Video to build a noise profile, remove noise, scratches, flicker and any duplicate frames.
Cut the film up ready to process as separate clips in the AI. The AI software is GPU intense so best to do the film in pieces rather than one long process. The size of those clips will depend on your GPU, I work on 4-5 minutes each max.
Your system will need good venting and maybe an external fan.
Note: I use a DTR (Desktop Replacement), a desktop will likely work easier.
Import a clip in to the AI, find a section to test a variety of settings and test 5-10 seconds multiple time, changing settings to find a good balance. This will take a little time when you're new to the software. Remove noise, recover detail etc. stabilise if necessary, increase frames and interpolate if necessary. Upscale to 1080/4K/8K.
Once you have your AI settings process the clips.
Import everything back in to Prem. Pro. Switch to the new 1080/4K/8K res. More damage(scratches, noise) removal if necessary, levels and/or curves balance.
Export.
It's a time intensive process and you need a good eye. There is no button to click and AI magically does everything. :D
Hope that makes sense, good luck!
@@livinghistoryaienhanced thanks for the reply, thanks for all of the detail xd, I've tried Topac on a clip and it works pretty well so I will try doing the other steps too
@@byronsytps Cool! If you have any questions fire them over I'd be happy to answer them if I can. :)
Maybe it's not supposed to make sense, but why does a crowd gather everywhere Philip goes?
He's a man in a skirt, a novelty in America at the time it seems.
@@livinghistoryaienhanced Perhaps, but the other kilt-clad Scotsman didn't seem to be drawing quite so much attention.
@@ivanhoeivanhoe810Good point, hmmm. Charisma? 😁
What happened to the sound? I hate to be critical here as any good help to L&H filmography is really great, however, the result here is a very clean picture, free of dirt and scratches, but also very soft looking and devoid of film grain with dark blacks to grey.
Still, enjoyable to see it in a clearer image.
Thanks for the comment. After my previous experience working on The Battle Of The Century and piecing together various elements of soundtracks, and adding none soundtrack music to fill the gaps, I decided not to include any sound with this film. After all the original is silent and I didn't want a potentially sub standard soundtrack distracting from the visuals. The work on the visuals alone was time consuming enough. :)
Regarding the softer image, by toning down the blacks I can bring out the hidden details found there and improve on the upscale results. I see lots of black and white film with the contrast set too high, where the black is nothing but a black mass. If those black and white films were in colour the overly high contrast would be more apparent.
Re: Film grain, after removing noise why add it back, even if it is more ordered? This is the digital century. :D
@@livinghistoryaienhanced I agree with a lot of what you say, but some people prefer grain and others don’t, to me film-grain from a 35mm camera looks great - as long as it’s not crazy grain, it retains the original look which I think is important as well as pleasing, this could be a similar argument that’s been going on between audio and digital for music since the early ’80s, people swear their records sound better to Cd.
The simple fact there is they’re enjoying the extra noise, as cd is and especially 24bit digital sound (on Blu-ray or other high res digital formats) is vastly clearer & superior, however after that, you'll need to have the ears of a BAT to enjoy hearing higher sample rates than that, people argue that as well. 😀
@@tiplady I agree, adding grain may be the equivalent of analogue sound, adding a warmth not found in digital. I have a solution, maybe those that prefer a grainy image could watch the film through a mosquito net and everyone else could watch it as it is. lol
I can very easily add a film grain to this and add it to my channel but RUclips doesn't like content that is to similar. Maybe I'll add the grain just to see how it looks and upload the film to Rumble.
It's the same argument with black and white or colourised. B&W allows the viewer to sink in to another (analogue) distant world and escape more easily, colour brings a film in to the modern day world which also has it's benefits e.g. a closer connection to the characters is formed, though colour does also mostly destroy the alternate reality of the B&W.
There are pros an cons for all of it, don't restore/restore, grain/no grain, B&W original/colourise, analogue/digital etc.
Ultimately it's inevitable, restored, no grain, colourised versions in 8K is where it's going. :D
@@livinghistoryaienhanced don’t get me started on Black & white vs colour, the comment won’t stop, I’ll just leave that as most of my favourite movies are b&w, basically the golden Hollywood age and beyond, one of my fav British classics is The Ladykillers, Ealing studio final jewel in their crown of mostly b&w’s, the colour in this movie is wonderful, it has gorges three-strip technicolour, the 4k edition came from the original camera negative and is so impressive, having seen every other one I can say it’s the nuts. & Yep! it retains the original grain ☺️this one wouldn’t look the same in b&w.
Take ‘The Maltese Falcon’ as an example, it’ has a new 4k rest’ that wouldn’t have the same great & very clever light & shadows if it was filmed in colour.
It’s a subject that has been written, studied and taught for decades and never gets dull, well to me anyway, however, a bad movie is a bad movie whatever it’s filmed in. 😄
@@tiplady OK, I'm generally not for colourising cinema films. :) I love the The Ladykillers and Ealing Studios. I just watched the trailer for the 4K version wow! Although I can see a little sharpening would make a huge difference.... I might have to test that idea out now on the trailer doh! :D
I also have lots of favourites that are B&W. My all time favourite is a B&W, A Canterbury Tale, it's unusual, ordinary, haunting and an intriguing window on the war years. Most of the other Powell & Pressburger are so colourful, I've always thought Canterbury, in that same colouring, would be stunning. Rather than push the viewer out of the film, I think it would draw them in further. Given what I'm doing on this channel I seem destined to upscale and colourise that film.
I checked the Maltese and Casablanca trailers both of which are available in 4K, I see room for lots more improvement, unless the trailers are not 4K.... I just ran the Casablanca trailer through the AI and only at 1080 WOW! with some sharpening and a little brightening =8O.... Just wait until it becomes copyright free in 16 years :)
...I upscaled The Ladykillers trailer to 1080, OMG!! If the 4K version is represented by the trailer then people are seriously missing out!!!
Wow! 8:50 though! 😭😭😭😭😅🤣🤣🤣
It's "snuff" fine tobacco designed to be "snorted". :D
Very commonly available in some UK pubs up to the mid 1980s. I remember trying "medicated" snuff in the late 1980s, bought from a csrd behind the bar.
Without music? WHY!? 😐
Is this meant to be totally silent ?or is it my device playing up ...
There is no audio track :)
It's a old movie!
Before they were able to add music recorded onto the film reel, the music would be added at the theater by a piano player.Many of the older films were without any sound.
No Sound 😢😢😢😢
Magari dopo 100 anni potevate almeno inserire una qualche musica...
Grazie per il tuo commento. Il ripristino e l'upscaling del film hanno richiesto molto tempo. Circa 100 fotogrammi modificati manualmente tra un sacco di altro lavoro. Avrei bisogno di scrivere e registrare una colonna sonora per arrivare a qualcosa di valore, anche se sono un musicista è troppo lavoro in questo momento. :)
It's A LOT of work you've done, Thank you so much.
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Stummfilm mit Englischen texten. Nichts für mich.
You put the color picture so people come and watch this very bad quality film?
They remind me of STARMER and MILLIBAND