Optical Restoration of Faded 35mm Color Negative

Since 1950, color negative film has become the standard on which millions of motion picture and television films have been photographed. Since the early 1970's, it has become apparent that the color negative film stock on which these images were recorded was not entirely stable and was fading with time. Digital technology is beginning to offer solutions to saving these records but will continue to be unavailable to most of these records due to cost. Optical (Photo-chemical) restoration offers a cost effective alternative to preserving many film records that may be lost by the time digital technology is affordable.

Published

1996-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00139

ISBN

978-1-61482-925-6