4K HDR Restoration of "Heidi" (1952) by RoDo Works AG

Mit der 4K HDR-Bearbeitung des Spielfilms «Heidi» aus dem Jahr 1952 setzt Rodo Works neue Massstäbe in der digitalen Film-Restaurierung.

Das mit 4K-Auflösung gescannte originale 35mm-Filmmaterial wurde in bis zu 15 Durchgängen mit verschiedensten Arbeitsschritten behandelt, von der Bildstabilisierung über die Eliminierung von Schmutz und Beschädigungen bis zur aufwändigen Farbkorrektur. Dafür wurde jedes der 145'000 Einzelbilder und jede der 600 Einstellung des Films genau analysiert und mit Unterstützung der DIAMANT-Film Restoration Software automatisch sowie manuell bearbeitet. Trotz hoch komplexer Workflows und viel zusätzlicher Handarbeit konnte die Restaurierung dank effizienter und automatisierter Prozesse in wenigen Wochen abgeschlossen werden.

Watch a before&after from some selected scenes.

Origins Archival Restoration Demo Reel

Origins Archival from Beverly Hills, LA, is one of our latest clients for the DIAMANT-Film Restoration SUITE in the US. They have created a beautiful demo restoration reel which we would like to share here.

Restoration of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Coda

Nikkie Jee from Paramount Pictures Archive says about the 4K restoration that clean-up and restoration kept the print flawless. Hardly a scratch, speck, or dust spot remain.

Photo: Paramount Home Entertainment

See full reviews here:

• https://www.doblu.com/2020/12/01/godfather-coda-blu-ray-review
• https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review-francis-ford-coppola-the-godfather-coda-on-paramount-blu-ray/

Restoration Project by Mainspring Narrative Films

Mainspring Narrative Films, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit company, produces educational documentaries focusing on art, architecture and cultural history. The company strives to foster a greater understanding of our modern world by exhaustively researching the past, and releasing films that often include previously unknown archival imagery and documentation.

The footage featured in this promotional video was cleaned digitally using DustBuster+ for Mac.
Mainspring seeks to present the past in the clearest possible form. Therefore, they locate project-relevant archival films, and then conduct a cleaning and scanning process. The high resolution digital transfers are then further processed to remove imperfections in the original film, and to correct color and frame rate issues. This results in motion imagery that often looks better than when it was first produced in the early part of the 20th century.

Restoration of "Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe" (1940) by RoDo Works AG

The Swiss company RoDo Works AG, based in Zurich, restored in late summer 2019, the strongly damaged film "Die mißbrauchten Liebesbriefe" for a new cinema version. This film, originally shot in 1940, was a big success in Swiss cinema in a difficult time.

The restoration has been done by the experienced team of RoDo Works AG namely Roman Altenburg and Dominic Frey. For the digital restoration a specific workflow had to be developped. The main environment used to be DIAMANT-Film Suite,but  for additional de-graining NEAT video has been used as well as DaVinci´s RESOLVE  for grading and finishing the new digital master.

Watch a before&after from some selected scenes.

4K Restoration of Francis Ford COPPOLA's Epic Masterpiece

Apocalypse Now Final Cut was restored from the original negative from 1979 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola's historic Vietnam War epic with Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando. The digital film restoration was mainly done on a DIAMANT-Film Restoration SUITE by James Mockoski from American Zoetrope Film.
Coppola believes Apocalypse Now Final Cut “looks better than it has ever looked, and sounds better than it has ever sounded,” and he is “thrilled beyond measure to present the best version of the film to the world.” Watch trailer.