The first black-and-white-to-color 4K restoration feature film "The Eternal Radio Wave" was released on National Day
"Radio waves" never fade, and faith travels through time and space
63 years ago, there was such a movie picture that made hundreds of millions of viewers cry. Underground worker Li Xia swallowed the telegram at the last second when the enemy rushed to the secret radio station, and sent the last piece of information surrounded by the muzzle of the secret agent's guns: "Comrades, farewell forever, I miss you!" ”
On October 6th, the first black-and-white-to-color 4K restoration feature film "The Eternal Electric Wave", jointly completed by the CCTV Central Video 5G new media platform and the China Film Archive, officially landed in theaters nationwide. Fans and friends can purchase tickets through the online platform or on-site.
The black-and-white feature film "The Eternal Electric Wave" was produced by Bayi Film Studios in 1958. The film is based on the martyr Li Bai, combined with the deeds of many heroic martyrs, and celebrates the comrades who fought on the hidden front.
After more than 7 months of restoration, the film met the audience with a new look. The CCTV Central Video 5G New Media Platform and the China Film Archive formed a project restoration team to combine China's human-computer interactive AI coloring technology with independent intellectual property rights with traditional restoration techniques, and restored the 165,000 frames of black and white images of the original film frame by frame, so that this red classic was rejuvenated and became a vivid teaching material for party history study education and patriotism education.
It is understood that this is China's first black-and-white feature film that has been re-screened in theaters after 4K color restoration, and the majority of audiences can experience the unique charm of "red classic + digital technology" on the big screen. In the previous national screening activities, the film has aroused strong repercussions. Many viewers said that "this repairs not only a movie, but also the common memory of generations of Chinese.".
On the morning of October 6, an elderly couple living near Yuhan Ginza in Jinan rushed to the New Century Cinema to watch the movie. The old man said that they had seen the film in the sixties, and "the plot has not changed, but the black and white has become colored, and it is clearer." Reliving the classics and feeling happy is not easy. So many people have sacrificed their lives for the founding of New China, I will let my children watch this movie, and young people should know more about the past. ”
Li Xinxuan, a student from the School of Foreign Chinese of Shandong University of Finance and Economics, enjoyed the film with his classmates. "I've heard of this movie before and know it's based on a history that really happened. Although it is a film from the 1950s, the pace is fast and the atmosphere of espionage is very tense. In the quiet of the years, we should not forget these heroic martyrs who sacrificed for the motherland and the people. Li Xinxi said. Dazhong Daily reporter Zhao Lin