Once my current project is complete I'd like to do a little experiment with Doctor Who. I have some William Hartnell on a Doctors Revisited DVD that I'd like to run frame by frame through an AI colorizer and possibly also through an AI upscaler to see if the added color and sharpness makes any difference in the watching experience. I'd feel differently if it were well-preserved film stock that looked amazing as is, but we all know the picture quality of early Who leaves much to be desired, so I think it's fair game for improvement attempts.
Then to correct the colorization still in a somewhat automated process (for example to make sure the TARDIS is blue), I think I could manually recolor a few reference frames and run it through ebsynth to see what happens to it.
I suppose this could evolve into a fanedit and eventually if the upscaler works, maybe it could be cropped for widescreen on a shot by shot basis. I'm thinking An Unearthly Child is the perfect test subject for this. If successful, this might be something that can be used as a workflow foundation for other edits, and would hopefully allow for editors to have a more modern take on the black and white seasons, maybe allowing footage to mix into a multi Doctor story.
Any interest in seeing something like this in a raw experimental form? Like short, contextless clips that demonstrate differences in different attempts, software, and workflows?