In 1986, anti-imperialist political analyst Dr. Michael Parenti gave a lecture at University of Colorado that still rings true today.<br /><br /><br />Unfortunately, the only footage of that lecture available today is a yellow-stained video recorded on tape that has been left to the elements. While the speech has earned a certain fame and is affectionately referred to as the "yellow speech" by fans due to the discolouration, it wasn't a true representation of what was filmed that day (since the artefacts came later through exposure).<br /><br />Over the course of 48 hours, I did my best to restore the original footage as accurately as possible. Some interpretation is however required at some steps, and so it can never be an actual restoration.<br /><br />Work done on this footage includes:<br /><br />* Removing the humming noise, boosting bass (audio remaster).<br />* Correcting colour, saturation, contrast, exposure.<br />* Correcting lens distortion.<br />* Using AI to denoise, deblock and sharpen the image.<br />* Using AI to upscale the video to 720p.<br />* Converting aspect ratio to 16:9.<br /><br />I hope that with this remaster, more people will get to watch this speech in whole and be introduced to Dr. Parenti.
