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Scanning colored Gasparcolor optical sound track
Our partner Sondor Willy Hungerbühler AG successfully scanned colored Gasparcolor soundtracks on their specialized scanner Resonances. The scanning is part of a research project by Andrea Krämer under the supervision of Prof. Martin Koerber, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin in collaboration with ARRI. Prof. Bernard Besserer of the University of La Rochelle supervised the scanning of several original nitrate prints of the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek. The soundtracks were pink/red and blue/green respectively.
Colored optical soundtrack on Gasparcolor nitrate print. Credit: Andrea Krämer and Prof. Martin Koerber, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin. Film: Minimax Feuerschutz (GER 1936, Walter Born) by courtesy of Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek.
Download factsheet of Sondor Resonances scanner here.
More information on Gasparcolor on Timeline of Historical Film Colors.
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Presentation at NECS Conference in Prague
Barbara Flueckiger and Franziska Heller of the DIASTOR team represented the project at two lively talks at the international NECS Conference in Prague: Digitization and Archives #1: Ethics, Issues and Opportunities and Digitisation and Archives #2: Strategies, Politics, and Cultural Context in collaboration with Anna Batistová, National Film Archive Prague, Ulrich Ruedel and Kieron Webb, British Film Institute, Oliver Hanley, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna Franziska Heller presented (Mnemo)Politics of Digitization: How the Digitization of Films is Shaping History and Barbara Flueckiger DIASTOR: Building a National Network for the Digitization of Archival Films.
NECS Conference Prague: Panel “Digitisation and Archives #2: Strategies, Politics, and Cultural Context” with Kieron Webb, British Film Institute National Archive, Anna Batistová, National Film Archive Prague and Masaryk University, and Oliver Hanley, Austrian Film Museum Vienna.
Link to NECS Conference in Prague
Presentation at ARRI Archive Workshop in Munich
DIASTOR had its first public presentation at the international ARRI Archive workshop in Munich on June 11, 2013 where the project was met with a lot of enthusiasm.
Link to ARRI Archive Workshop 2013
Kick-off meeting at the Cinémathèque Suisse in Lausanne
On May 2nd the whole team from the academic institutions and the companies gathered at the Cinémathèque Suisse in Lausanne for a kick-off meeting to exchange ideas and to develop specific plans to develop DIASTOR into a fully operational project. Since then, a variety of subgroups were founded focusing on different tasks such as the acquisition of case studies, the development of software modules and the evaluation of international best practices.
The complete DIASTOR team at the kickoff meeting, Cinémathèque suisse Lausanne, May 2, 2013.
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