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On November 6, iQIYI announced that an eight-person team used its NadouPro platform to reconstruct the 1938 film "Shanghai After Sixty Years," whose negative, film prints, and screenplay had all been lost. The short film was completed within two months and has been shortlisted for the 2026 Future Image AI unit of the 39th Golden Rooster Awards. The team, working at a joint laboratory of iQIYI and Xiamen University, carried out a creative reconstruction based on surviving stills, posters, and newspaper clippings as conceptual references, rather than restoring an existing copy. During production, the team first locked in digital assets such as each character's facial features, proportions, and costumes, then generated subsequent shots, and used NadouPro's 3D Director Studio to adjust character positions, composition, and movement. The film has now been shortlisted for the aforementioned AI unit.
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iQIYI Rebuilds Lost 1938 Film with NadouPro AI Workflow
On November 6, iQIYI announced that an eight-person team used its NadouPro platform to rebuild the 1938 film "Shanghai Bund Sixty Years Later," whose negative, film prints and script have all been lost. The short film was completed in two months and was shortlisted for the AI category of the 39th Golden Rooster Awards 2026 Future Image. The team, working at a joint laboratory of iQIYI and Xiamen University, carried out a creative reconstruction based on surviving stills, posters and newspaper clippings as conceptual references, rather than restoring an existing copy. During production, the team first fixed digital assets such as each character's facial features, proportions and costumes before generating subsequent shots, and used NadouPro's 3D Director Studio to adjust character positions, composition and movement.