1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass Dealership Sales Training Promotional Film ( Restored )

This 1973 Oldsmobile promotional film, titled " Step Ahead With Cutlass ", was sent to the Oldsmobile car dealerships to be used as an in-house Sales and customer training film. This film highlights the " Vista Vent " feature that is used to clear out a smoke bomb inside the car, and excellent to clear out " Uncle Henry's cigar smoke ". At 2:40 the camera demonstrates the excellent visibility and appearance of the vent as the camera focuses on the driver's tan legs.
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 had many scratches and dust marks along with fair amount of 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 extensive color restoration performed using 3 separate processes in DaVinci Resolve software. An additional processing for dust and scratch removal was performed utilizing NeatVideo. Then the film was upscaled into 4K resolution utilizing Topaz AI software. In 4K, the images were sharpened, and additional detail correction was performed. Then a final color restoration and image stabilization process was performed in DaVinci Resolve. 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.