Neural network transforms 124-year-old film into crisp HD

When it premiered in 1896, the silent short film "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat" was a cinematic wonder. Compared to today's motion pictures, though, the quality of the black-and-white clip is downright primitive. But now, YouTuber Denis Shiryaev has found a way to show what the film might have looked like if it had been recorded using more modern technology -- by using artificial intelligence to upscale it to 4K resolution at 60 frames per second. "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat," which translates to "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat," depicts just what its title implies: a train arriving at a station. The original clip released in 1896 is jerky and grainy, and the features of the people at the station in the film are near-impossible to decipher.