Lectures and a Special Screening of Goromasamune Koshiden [Digitally Restored].

On the occasion of this year's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the National Film Archive of Japan will hold a special event focusing on a Taisho era film star Sawamura Shirogoro, who competed with Japan's first film star Onoe Matsunosuke.

Date: Oct 14(Sat)　3:00 pm- 5:20 pm

[Lecture] "Sawamura Shirogoro as a Kabuki actor" Ryuichi Kodama (Professor, School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University) "Sawamura Shirogoro or the Image of the Anti-Hero in Kyugeki, or Old Drama" Hiroshi Komatsu (Professor, School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University) *Video lecture

[Screening] Goromasamune Koshiden [Digitally Restored] (1915) with kowairo-kakeai Benshi perfrmance (employing multiple performers to voice different characters) .

National Film Archive of Japan (affiliated to FIAF)  SAWAMURA Shirogoro, The Great Star of Early Period Films: Lectures and a Special Screening of Goromasamune Koshiden [Digitally Restored] 14 October 2023 3-7-6 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Lillian Gish as "Letty” in The Wind, 1927

I've been scanning and restoring some pieces of original Star Trek: TOS film and wanted to share this before and after from a deleted scene in the episode "Elaan of Troyius":

At nearly 60 years old, the film is in bad shape, exhibiting substantial scratches and color shifting. The magenta/red tint is a good example of dye fading, a sign of deterioration likely due to the film stock it was shot on.

Prior to 1950, color motion picture film was shot in Technicolor, which required a large, cumbersome camera to simultaneously expose 3 separate strips of negative film that then underwent a proprietary dye imbibition process to create a full color image. Though visually stunning and remarkably color-stable, it was a complicated, expensive process reserved only for high budget productions. In 1950, Eastman Kodak introduced Eastmancolor, the first 35 mm “single-strip” color motion picture negative -- in short, a film that was easy to shoot and process, and compared to Technicolor, only used a 1/3 of the film stock. Suddenly color film was an affordable option for studios and its popularity took off. Eastmancolor was composed of a single strip of negative film surfaced with 3 layers of light-sensitive gelatin emulsion. During development, a chemical reaction produced magenta, yellow, and cyan dyes on their corresponding layers, which were superimposed to create a full color image. Unfortunately, these dyes were unstable, something that wasn't apparent until aging films began to lose their color in the following years.

The Star Trek image above is pink because its yellow and cyan dyes have faded away, leaving just the magenta layer. The information may be lost, but digital restoration can improve what's left. But because the yellow and cyan greatly contributed to the overall density of the image, basic color balancing still produces a lower contrast version compared to what the original must have looked like. The missing richness and depth seems most apparent in the skin tones, but hand painting some of the color can bring a little life back to it, as I've done here. It's a challenge because, as far as I can tell, the only remaining footage or still shots of this scene show some level of dye fading. Fortunately, now that the film is digitized, restoration can be an ongoing project. If you own any color motion picture film negatives or prints, the sooner you get them scanned the better. In the meantime, helpful storage information can be found here.

It's been a while since I've shot any film (film major), so it's nice to see it again, even if it's chopped up into single frames. I have a small collection of them so I'll post more restored images as they're completed. BTW @cheer-deforest-kelley has a great post on how this film went from the editing room floor to the hands of fans.

Marilyn Monroe / publicity photo for Joshua Logan’s Bus Stop (1956)

felt like compiling some b roll of this guy working on paintings, some interesting expressions.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

- Charisma

1999

current sexual orientation: tweedy, warm, intelligent, wry, ping-pong playing, whisky-drinking, poetry-quoting, motorbike-racing, gloriously red-headed here-on-earth-I-am-your-defending-counsel Doctor Frank Reeves [Roger Livesey: A Matter of Life And Death, Powell & Pressburger, 1946]

SUBLIME CINEMA #665 - CASSANDRA CAT

60's Czech new wave cult weirdness, about a cat that can read people's minds. Somewhat political allegory, it's one of the strangest offerings from that period of Czechoslovak filmmaking, now rediscovered and recently restored.

David Thewlis

Restoration - 1995

Part 1/6

#Renaissance Remus and Sirius

Film Restored 2023. The Film Heritage Festival

On the occasion of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the 8th edition of the festival Film Restored will take place from 25 to 29 October at Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin. This year's edition explores gaps in film history and material, as well as absence as a narrative and aesthetic device. The programme highlights recently restored films, some of them considered lost for many decades, and sheds light on works that have received little recognition in film history. The festival comprises 17 screenings with films from 13 countries and 4 continents

Deutsche Kinemathek (affiliated to FIAF)  Film Restored 2023. The Film Heritage Festival 25-29 October 2023 Potsdamer Str. 2; Berlin, Germany.

The festival’s full programm is available here. Talks and selected films are also available online from Oct 25 to Nov 9: www.film-restored.de

Sunset Blvd., Polish film poster design by Waldemar Swierzy, 1957

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Bonus R.O.U.S. + me being sick watching film

Before and after restored film frame, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Spectre of the Gun"

DeForest Kelley breaking the fourth wall.

BTW the expressions in this restored frame from the same episode make more sense after seeing the recently unearthed season 3 blooper reel.

I'm never gonna be normal after this, ESPECIALLY after the Hellraiser: Bloodline workprint cut

Suspiria (1977) - Dario Argento

Bad luck isn't brought by broken mirrors, but by broken minds.