During one of Ben's visits from the UK in June of that year, we decided to put our theory to the test and film the journey to share online. The journey itself went great! Unfortunately, there was some serious problem with the audio we needed for our on-camera portions of the video. Winds and children yelling while running amok in the background made it near impossible to make out what Ben and I were saying. Shortly after watching the footage and its problems, we felt we would have to shelve this one and do it over on another day. By the time 2020 came, the pandemic hit and other life-changing things postponed any plans for filming such stuff. Ben got engaged and was working on immigrating to the States to marry his fiancé, and all that entailed during the pandemic. Short answer to an even longer answer, life was taking precedence over making fan docs.
Fast forward to now. Ben is married and lives about 3 1/2 hours North of me. My work in multimedia has made me more and more aware of AI-assisted tools. One in particular that just came out in the past month, was a one-click audio enhancement tool that blew me away when I saw a YouTube demonstration of it. Out of curiosity, I threw our previously unusable "Bat-Roads" audio into it. I thought, "Chew on this." What came back knocked my socks off. Over 90% of the kids yelling and the winds were GONE and all that was left was audio of Ben and I sounding like we were doing a podcast. I sent the footage to Ben and he started cutting while I worked on animated maps and such.
So, it's been a crazy one in the making as we thought we kissed this one goodbye but here is "Bat Tours: The Bat-Roads."
YouTube Description:
Join Scott Sebring and Ben Bentley as they take a research trip up into the Hollywood Hills to try and track down the famous "Bat-Roads" that we saw the Batmobile tearing down each week on The 1966 Batman TV series starring Adam West.
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Download the map: https://66batman.com/bat_resources/bat-roads_map.pdf