From Reuters.

The ‘Wizard of Oz at Sphere’ uses AI to transform the classic 1939 film into an immersive experience at the Las Vegas Sphere, featuring advanced technology and a massive LED display. The project represents a significant collaboration between Hollywood and technology companies, aiming to reimagine culturally significant media.

Rather than exploiting AI to cut jobs, producers sought to use it to breathe fresh life into a classic story and create new experiences with existing intellectual property.

AI enhanced the resolution of tiny celluloid frames from 1939 to ultra-high-definition images. It restored details — like freckles on Dorothy’s face or burlap texture on the Scarecrow’s face — obscured by Technicolor’s process. AI also helped "outpaint" on-screen images to fill gaps created by camera cuts or framing, which it did when it took a close-up of the Tin Man chopping a door of the Witch’s castle with an axe to free Dorothy and completed the image of the woodman.

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