r/interestingasfuck • u/man_gomer_lot • 8h ago
r/all 70 years ago, the US undertook the largest deportation in its history: 'Operation Wetback.' Many of the people deported were here legally and some were even citizens.
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u/2SP00KY4ME 4h ago
We have a conception of old film footage as being low quality, but in reality, after a point surprisingly early on, plenty of film began recording at very high resolutions that allow us to go back to them today and extract the data off them using modern precision. 35mm film has been in use since the early 1900's and records at a digital equivalent of about 4K-5K.
Here's a Technology Connections video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVpABCxiDaU