Watch: 'How a 100-Year-Old Animated Film is Restored' Short Doc

If you've ever wondered, how do they restore old films? What is the process, and how long does it take, and how delicate is it? Then this is a must watch video. Adam Savage's Tested YouTube channel released this nerdy video in December last year, but we've just caught up with it now. How a 100-Year-Old Animated Film Is Restored is a short minute short doc taking a trip to the restoration house known as Blackhawk Films, based in Burbank, CA. The 20 minute video follows the team as they received an old 35mm print of a classic Koko the Clown cartoon from 1924, cleaning up the reel and feeding it into a scanning device. They use a 10K Lasergraphics scanner, then work on cleaning up the rest of the dust and dirt and everything else digitally in computers. I'd love to learn more about the laser scanning machine, and more about the 35mm film stock itself, but this is still a fascinating look at how modern film restoration works. Check it out below. // Continue Reading ›

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