Restoration Project Filmgalerie Krems
General:

The film "A travel through Austria. The Wachau" represents the oldest colored film about the Wachau. It was produced in the early 1920s.Today it is possible to watch this film in a former unknown quality. Since 2008 historic and cultural important film material from the "Filmarchive Austria" and the "Austrian Filmmuseum" is scanned and digitally restored by the "Filmgalerie" in Krems. Dust busting, stabilisation and deflickering is done with DIAMANT-Film Restoration. After the restoration the images are put to film again. All over the world there are more than 2.2 million meters of heavily damaged film from the years between 1900 and 1960. With former techniques the breakup of these films could be stopped, but already existing defects couldn't be fixed. Right now those defects can be fixed with digital techniques. This is the chance to bring back films witch are part of our legacy onto the screen in former unknown quality.

