How are they able to release older movies in 4k?

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Were they shot in 4k or something we just didn’t have TV’s that could see 4k back in the day?

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They rescan the old film prints and clean them up.
Only problem is a lot of films (effects heavy ones especially) in the mid-2000’s were finished digitally at 2K resolutions. Which is why there are no “true” 4K versions of those films from that era.

Film is an amazing, but inconvenient medium.

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