Repairing antique movie film with lousy digital conversion

I have a DVD with apparently a "home" conversion of a 1938 black and white movie which the original film apparently no longer exists. The flicker is bad. It is a group of children walking on a sidewalk towards the camera. Further, I would like to slow this down to provide a better view of each. It really gets bad with 25% slowdown.
Are there any tools in CS6 that would help in this process or any third party tools that might help?

X-man,
Maybe you're right, that the math is slightly different, and if so I'd like to understand why.
Amoli,
To clarify, the reason we processed the 44.1 files in DP was to get that all underway while I continued to work in Logic on other things. When I re-imported the newly converted 48K files into my Logic session, of course I changed the sample rate of the session and lined my 2-pop (head pop) up with picture. It was at this time that I noticed that the tail pop was off by a fraction.
There was no pitch change whatsoever. I would have heard that in a millisecond. The only artifact is this slight discrepancy between the positions of the tail pops between my 44.1 session and my 48 session against the same exact picture.

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This is a nice approach for a couple of reasons. The .m2t files are great storage formats. The conversion from mpeg-2 stream (m2t) to a framed format like QT+AIC (mov) is done +only once+. And the quality is maintained. Also, I can do this all to an external harddrive, which is nice since I'm limited on my macbook.
I don't have HD gear. Currently I archive SD DV to tape and to big harddisks. In the future I would like to continue to archive HD content in its native compressed (non-AIC) form. Obviously this works via DVHScap, right?
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