Is AI-Restoring Orson Welles or the Wizard of Oz a Good Idea?

The tech is already being used to change everything from 'The Wizard of Oz' to 'The Magnificent Ambersons.' Not everyone ...
The Digital Universe

BYU Motion Picture Archives helps students 'take a walk down memory lane' with Film Restoration Showcase

The Film Showcase is held in the Alice Louise Reynold's Auditorium. Students and faculty are invited to come participate. (Angela Hernandez) BYU's Film Restoration Showcase on Friday, Oct. 13 will ...
The Digital Universe

Film restoration premiere highlights important BYU Film 'How Near to the Angels'

A restored frame from the movie "How Near to the Angels." This scene shows the main character Janet, played by Mary Anderson Barton, in a wedding dress preparing to marry in the temple. (Courtesy of ...
The Telegraph

Saving our film heritage has to be taken up on a war footing: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

The task of restoration also involves studying the film and its production history, understanding the filmmaker’s vision or his limitations, knowing the work of the cinematographer, the art director, ...
The Telegraph

Step by step: How two G. Aravindan classics – Kummatty and Thampu – were restored

Continuing the conversation with Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, whose Film Heritage Foundation is pioneering the cause of restoring ‘lost’ classics of Indian cinema, we spotlight the efforts to restore ...
CNN

How to help save film history

It’s one of the most spectacular dance sequences ever captured on film: the Nicholas Brothers cutting loose on a double staircase in the classic musical Stormy Weather (1943). “It would be terrible if ...