{"id":375,"date":"2015-05-07T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/05\/07\/lo-and-behold-there-was-actually-an-image-in-there-criterions-techinical-director-talks-restoration\/"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:10:00","slug":"lo-and-behold-there-was-actually-an-image-in-there-criterions-techinical-director-talks-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/05\/07\/lo-and-behold-there-was-actually-an-image-in-there-criterions-techinical-director-talks-restoration\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lo and behold, there was actually an image in there.&#8221; Criterion&#8217;s techinical director talks restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restoration is an important component of any film preservation and re-release process, especially the high-quality efforts from the Criterion Collection. Those of us without professional archival training never get a good idea of what happens during this mysterious process. Do they scan the original film? What sort of tools do they use to clean dirt off? What if a film reel is too damaged to use? Surely they don&#8217;t just color black-and-white movies with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mental_floss\/status\/337908634153521152\">crayons<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <i>The A.V. Club<\/i>, we now have a glimpse into the processing room. In commemoration of the Criterion remastering of the <i>The Apu Trilogy<\/i>, a masterwork of Indian cinema, <i>The A.V. Club<\/i> interviewed Criterion&#8217;s technical director Lee Kline about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/how-film-restorers-brought-apu-trilogy-back-life-218781\">how a company restores a sixty-year-old film<\/a>. The details are shocking; apparently the original copy was damaged in a fire and almost too brittle to play. Kline then goes into the chemistry of film preservation, as well as the tedious process of cleaning up scratches.<\/p>\n<p>Just reading about the work that went into <i>The Apu Trilogy<\/i>&#8216;s restoration stresses us out, so we&#8217;re it was handled by someone with skill. Maybe you won&#8217;t be grossed out reading about the nasty vinegar smell of rotting film \u2013 and maybe this line of work seems like something you&#8217;d want to do! We at least hope Kline&#8217;s interview helps you appreciate the enormous effort spent on saving global cultural heritage.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoration is an important component of any film preservation and re-release process, especially the high-quality efforts from the Criterion Collection. Those of us without professional archival training never get a good idea of what happens during this mysterious process. Do they scan the original film? What sort of tools do they use to clean dirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,212,276,377],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-criterion","tag-links-of-interest","tag-preservation","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}