The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) - Widescreen 16x9 Expanded, Colourised, Upscaled - with AI

I'm very pleased to present the fruits of my 2-month long research project into the ability to "modernise" classic movies using modern AI tools. This is Sidney Lanfield's version of his first Sherlock Holmes movie, starring Basil Rathbone. I used the most cutting edge local AI models available in 2026 to extend the original 4x3 frame to widescreen 16x9, colourise, and upscale to a crisp 4k. As my research went on, I found it more useful to write software to automate the process, which resulted in ARP, the AI Remaster Pipeline. It's available for free to download from GitHub. 👉 https://github.com/dtaddis/ai-remaste... In addition to my work on the video, my friend Jose Carlos Gorritti also modernised the audio. He cleaned up, repaired and enhanced the original audio. He then added new stereo ambience and atmospheric sound effects, as well as extra music in selected scenes. Jose's Social Media: @GorrittiLeaks Head over to his website to : • Check out his portfolio • Inquire about collabs • See his latest creative ventures 👉 https://josesoundartist.com/ I’ve released this remaster as a research project exploring what’s now possible with AI-assisted film restoration, colourisation, widescreen expansion, and repair workflows. It’s a non-commercial experiment, shared to document the process and open up discussion around these tools. Thanks to Yixin Yang for his work on ColorMNet, and for allowing me to use it for this project. 👉 https://github.com/yyang181/colormnet If you would like to support the channel and my creative work, you are very welcome to buy me a coffee. ☕ https://buymeacoffee.com/davidaddis