formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Studios invested heavily in magnetic-tape storage for film archiving but now struggle to keep up with the technology Source: The Lost Picture Show: Hollywood Archivists Can’t Outpace Obsolescence – IEEE Spectrum
It all really started in Pune, last year, where Kamal Haasan was attending the closing ceremony of the Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop at the National Film Archives of India (NFAI). He had asked Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, the organiser of … Continued
When the renowned cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki began planning to shoot the wilderness drama The Revenant, he decided that to capture the stark, frozen beauty of a Canadian winter, he would use no artificial light, instead relying on sunlight, moonlight, and … Continued
With the switch to digital cinema now nearly five years in the past in the UK, the true value of the way film was shown for the first hundred years is thrown into relief. Yet, despite the ubiquity of digital cinema prints (DCPs), there … Continued
Deluxe is to close its UK restoration operation at the end of March with the potential loss of 12 jobs. Source: Deluxe to close UK restoration operation | News | Broadcast
Once a film is distributed, its makers tend to move on; with few exceptions they don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on where the product of their years of hard work will end up. Source: Film Preservation 101: A … Continued