PARAJANOV MASTERPIECES TO UNDERGO DIGITAL RESTORATION

Noyan Tapan
Dec 24, 2009

KIEV, DECEMBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. A digital restoration
laboratory has opened at the Dovzhenko Film Studio.

Masterpieces by such renowned firectors as Dovzhenko and Parajanov
will soon get higher quality, analitika.at.ua reports.

After being scanned, films undergo full digital restoration by digital
image processing. Computer programs are used to improve their color
and remove dust and scratches. There are about 1,000 films in the
collection of the Dovzhenko studio, and the new laboratory will allow
restoring 3 dozen films a year.

The digital restoration of a film takes about two months. The process
is quite expensive: the cost of one film is 45 thousand dollars. The
film studio plans to release discs of the restored films.