Iain Petrie | Enhancing images from 1955 Flash Gordon TV Series with astrophotography techniques & free software @IKP1000 | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
I've been applying astrophotography techniques to produce enhanced images from videos of the 1954 TV series of Flash Gordon with Steve Holland, by extracting and stacking individual frames.
As far as I'm aware these techniques haven't been used for this purpose before so I thought it was worth sharing them here.
This is not a "How To" tutorial, as this would be beyond the scope of a singe video, rather it's a showcase of the techniques and the free software used to produce the final results.
The examples here are taken from the very rare Episode 34 "Death in the Negative" of the series, first shown in the United States on June 10th 1955.
"The Cygnii have squandered their worldly resources over the thousands of years and now exist as a third-rate planet. Their queen is determined to bring their planet back to prominence by creating a death-ray that operates by changing normal light into it's negative, thereby reducing the content of oxygen to deadly levels." (IMDb).
The free software used:
VirtualDub
AutoStakkert!
Registax6
GIMP