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Numerous restoration projects have recently
made use of ARRISCAN technology to scan
historic material. These include a joint effort
between ARRI and HS-Art to restore the first
film ever made in Georgia: a portrait of rural
life filmed in 1911. High profile work has
also been done on an ARRISCAN in Munich
for the famous 1973 16mm project of Rainer
Werner Fassbinder: WELT AM DRAHT (DoP
Michael Ballhaus). A new documentary
about Leo Tolstoy, who died 100 years ago,
is currently being produced in Russia. ARRI
has been brought in for the scanning and
restoration work, which is extensive because
the film will be completely made up from
original footage of Tolstoy during the last
years of his life.
Probably the most prestigious project to
have made use of the ARRISCAN is Fritz
Lang’s 1927 masterpiece: METROPOLIS. New
footage from the film, recently discovered on
16mm in Argentina, has been scanned for
restoration. This allowed, for the first time,
the original release version of METROPOLIS
to be shown at the 60th Berlin International
Film Festival in February 2010.
With its scanning quality, efficiency and
reliability, the ARRISCAN has already set
the industry standard. Now it conquers the
past and secures our film heritage into the
future.
David Bermbach
Wetgate scans can rescue films that could
not be restored any other way
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The Lumière Project
“A number of tests carried out in Munich gave us
excellent results,” states Davide Pozzi, CEO at
L’Immagine Ritrovata. “The ARRISCAN Archive
GUI is a tool that would take our film restoration
laboratory a great leap forward in quality. So
we decided to add an ARRISCAN Archive with
the prototype of the sprocketless transport to our
machine inventory in August 2009. Our clients
are very pleased by the quality level we have
now reached.”
The most important project so far carried out with
the aid of this elaborate piece of machinery is the
restoration of more than 100 films by the Lumière
brothers for the Lyon Institut Lumière. All films dated
110 year old lumiere-perforated film
scanned on ARRISCAN
D i g i t a l I n t e r m e d i a t e S y s t e m s
At the Grand Lyon Film Festival 2009
back between the end of the nineteenth century
and the beginning of the twentieth.
The materials available for restoration were for the
most part original nitrates of the Lumière per foration
system (a single, round perforation on the side of
every frame). The ARRISCAN’s sprocket less transport
system was the only tool that could perform a
quality scan of such invaluable films.
The restoration of these films premiered to an
audience of 5,000 people at the opening of the
first Gran Lyon Film Festival in Lyon, France, on
October 23, 2009.
Elena Tammaccaro (L'Immagine Ritrovata)
Weblinks:
www.immagineritrovata.it/
www.arri.de/
digital_intermediate_systems/
arriscan.html
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PHOTO: AURéLIE RAISIN / JEAN - LUC MèGE
PHOTOGRAPHIES / INSTITUT LUMIèRE 2009