1973 Pontiac La Mans VS Malibu, Satellite, & Gran Torino Dealership Promotional Film ( Restored )

This 1973 Pontiac promotional film, titled " 1973 Pontiac La Mans Versus: Satellite Custom, Malibu, Gran Torino, Cutlass S ", was sent to the Pontiac car dealerships to be used as an in-house Sales and customer training film. This film highlights technical aspects and features of the new model year. The film compares La Mans to the Chevy Malibu, the Ford Gran Torino, and the Plymouth Satellite. This film is hosted by and features stunt driver Bill Hickman including footage of his driving in a major film release.

If you look up a different film I posted, titled "1974 Chevy Selling Monte Carlo ", you can see a rare glimpse of the film cartridge viewer that was used at the dealership where the customers and personnel were to view these films. The machine was made by Technicolor and called the " Chevrolet Mini Theater System "

This film came from my personal collection. This film was not downloaded from any website and is not reused content. This restoration is my work. The restoration process started with removing the super8 film from the Technicolor Cartridge. After removal the film was cleaned, repaired, and spooled onto a standard film reel. This film has scratches and dust marks along some color fade. The scanning to digital process and basic color correction was performed on the Lasergraphics Scanstation motion picture film scanner system in 2k resolution. Excess film grain noise was removed and the images upscaled to 4K resolution utilizing Topaz AI software. Then in 4K, color restoration was performed in Davinci Resolve. Advanced noise removal was performed using multiple processes in NeatVideo. Then a second and final color restoration, Image sharpening, and image stabilization was performed in DaVinci Resolve. Unfortunately, this film has quite a bit of warpage and some sunlight damage at the beginning and end of the film. This was the best results I was able to achieve with the time I spent on it. Finally, the film was downscaled back to 2k for uploading to YouTube. As I work on these films, I try to improve the process as I go along. Thanks for watching.