Restoring A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Germany, 1925/U.S., 1928)
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“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Germany, 1925/U.S., 1928), which has its Los Angeles restoration premiere this Saturday, April 6, 2024 at the UCLA Festival of Preservation, was long considered lost until a nitrate print was discovered in Oregon in 2010, buried under a cellar and coated in machine oil.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive, with help from fellow archivists in Germany and Austria, augmented this North American release print with film fragments, stills and the original German intertitles for a hybrid restoration. A new 35mm negative and a new 35mm polyester print of the restoration are now conserved in our vaults for posterity, as well as the nitrate print that was found.
This silent adaptation of the Shakespeare play will be presented digitally with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick 🎹
Free admission! Details: cinema.ucla.edu/festival
Restoration funded by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation from a 35mm nitrate silent tinted print. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc. and FotoKem. Special thanks to Oliver Hanley, Henry Esau.
Complete Record: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Germany, 1925/U.S., 1928), which has its Los Angeles restoration premiere this Saturday, April 6, 2024 at the UCLA Festival of Preservation, was long considered lost until a nitrate print was discovered in Oregon in 2010, buried under a cellar and coated in machine oil. The UCLA Film & Television Archive, with help from fellow archivists in Germany and Austria, augmented this North American release print with film fragments, stills and the original German intertitles for a hybrid restoration. A new 35mm negative and a new 35mm polyester print of the restoration are now conserved in our vaults for posterity, as well as the nitrate print that was found. This silent adaptation of the Shakespeare play will be presented digitally with live musical accompaniment by Cliff Retallick 🎹 Free admission! Details: cinema.ucla.edu/festival Restoration funded by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation from a 35mm nitrate silent tinted print. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc. and FotoKem. Special thanks to Oliver Hanley, Henry Esau.
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let's take an inside look at the restoration process of A Midsummer Nights Dream 1925 here's senior film preservationist Mickey Shannon with the nitrate print that was used in the restoration this lost film was discovered in Oregon in 2010 buried under a Cellar and coated in machine oil parts of the film were originally tinted and toned to add color tinting uses a d bath to D the film a certain color a affecting the whites of the image toning uses a chemical process that replaces the silver with a colored metal compound affecting the blacks of the image if not properly conserved tinted and tone shots deteriorate and lose color stability splices were reinforced with tape to prevent the film from falling apart during multiple cleanings the tape and sticky residue were later removed so the film could be properly scanned splices were then repaired with film cement and a cement splicer used for nitrate and acetate film after scanning extensive digital cleanup was done by our partnering Lab at roundabout entertainment here's the before and after
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