Note (February 5): In the original version of this story I was comparing a low-quality copy of the 1896 film to the upscaled version. Shiryaev actually started with a higher-quality scan of the film, and many of the differences I observed actually reflected his better source material, not the upscaling algorithm. I've updated the first video below to the one Shiryaev used, but I left the text of t
![Someone used neural networks to upscale a famous 1896 video to 4k quality (Updated)](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/cd88c43afe34da3619c2dc9fcab8354021ad52d0/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.arstechnica.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F02%2Fupscaled-760x380.jpg)