Restoring Genesis to their full 1973 glory in 4K

Given that Peter Gabriel’s finally released his new i/o album after a gestation period more closely associated with geology, we thought it was a good time to highlight the 50th anniversary remaster of one of his seminal performances with his old band Genesis.

The full story about how it was done is at The Genesis Museum and is a fascinating insight into the way that film restoration has progressed over the years.

Recorded live October 30th-November 1, 1973 at Shepperton Studios in the UK and shot on 16mm, the footage was originally bought in 2003 at auction. The first SD transfer was paid for by a small group of fans at the Meeksgenesis forum (and incidentally used by the band for various anniversary boxed sets). In 2013, it was transferred to HD, and now it gets one final (final?) bump up to 4K.

The footage and audio was all rescanned and reingested, thousands of frames were cleaned by hand and color corrected shot by shot. The Museum had its work cut out for it too.

Read the rest here.