Sentences with phrase «of film preservationists»
Over the last five years Spriggs and his team of film preservationists have located about 6,500 films, scattered among the government's high - security vaults and in varying degrees of decomposition.
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At the time of his death, Albert Parker was assisting film historian - preservationist Kevin Brownlow in the restoration of the recently rediscovered Sherlock Holmes.
Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels of nitrate film trimmed from the original versions were — depending on which movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»
We went on to discuss the hazards of shipping; how the festival will be honoring the late, great film preservationist, David Shepherd with a series of enchanting short films, including hand - painted examples from Georges Meliès (see left) that are suitable for children as well as adults; why Ernst Lubitsch's THE DOLL also appeals to both.
It should thrill cinephiles and tech wonks in equal measure... Pretty much every frame of the film is packed with vivid, contrasting colors, and one of the strengths of the high - def version is how fixed and solid the colors are... Film grain, a bedbug of certain high - def advocates, is spectacularly intact... Indeed, Chungking Express is one of those films that thoroughly vindicates something film preservationist Robert Harris once said to me: «The grain is the picture.»
Recent print & web discussions with film preservationist Robert Harris indicate a costly restoration is needed so that the vestiges of the now - fading Toronto print and surviving separation masters can be used to create a new film master of the long version.
At the same time as the visual artist Hilary Lloyd is nominated for this year's Turner Prize for her inventive work in film and video, «digital preservationists» are campaigning for more shared research and have organised the first of a series of symposiums to be held at King's College London and Cambridge next month.