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View ArticleA Scheme that Made Film Flourish Amidst Apartheid
A Cape Town production company is reviving a surprising flourishing of film-making featuring black actors and African languages in 1980s apartheid-era South Africa.
View ArticleReproducing Film Colors, and Their Significances
Barbara Flueckiger is figuring out how best to determine the colors that films have had, throughout cinema history. She is developing means to replicate the colors in digital restorations. Her huge...
View ArticleJoel Archer’s Quest for Film Revival
In Queensland, Joel Archer brings elderly audiences alive with the movies of their heydays – then he goes out and scours aging or abandoned cinemas for missing screen gems. And he has found some...
View Article2019 National Film Registry Additions Announced
United States Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden has announced the annual addition of influential American motion pictures to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Twenty five films...
View ArticleHow Machines Restore Archival Film — or, at least, are trying to
Film restoration is a painstaking endeavor. It involves much careful observation of archival film, repair of any damage, and preservation from future ravages of time. The tools for doing all that are...
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