Well sure, although the IB prints all had the same print master, so by averaging them, you can at best arrive at the detail of the master, not the negative, but I guess if you throw in a couple of Eastmans, you can get something even closer to the o-neg, though again, those still have IP and IN grain in them but if the prints came from different IPs, I guess in theory the info from the o-neg could be there, but I think you’d need a lot of prints for that, but that is a discussion for another thread.

But what I’m suggesting here with the 2004 version is more similar to the LD capture averaging - these are digital encodes that all come from the same common source, only with a layer of artifacts on top, so there would be no frame by frame image registration needed, or color matching or anything - just stack them on top of each other and average them.