Oh yeah, normally you would do a ton of pre-processing before stacking, and then more cleanup after.
I literally knocked that out in about 15 minutes, 10 minutes of which was computation time, so it is a poor example, I just wanted to illustrate the technique.
Even doing it quite poorly gave enough of a result to show how it works.
Poita just open a film restoration school already, you know we’ll all enroll 😃