NEW: Digitizing Motion Picture Film
Instructor: Giorgio Trumpy, University of Zurich
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 2 Hours
Course Time: 
     New York: 22 October 2021, 10:00 - 12:15
     Paris: 22 October 2021, 16:00 - 18:15
     Tokyo: 22 October 2021, 23:00 - 23 October 01:15

Course Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of photography technology and color science.
Benefits:
Attendees will be able to:

• Explain the main milestones in the evolution of color technology for motion picture film.
• Identify color film processes.
• Understand the functioning of film scanners.
• Choose the best image-capture approach for different color processes on film.
• Describe the limits of current film scanning technology.

Course Description
The history of color technology on film is a fascinating succession of attempts to accurately reproduce color scenes in motion that started in the late nineteenth century. Comprised of  applied hand coloring, tinting and stencil coloring, and a multitude of  "true" color processes such as two-color Kodachrome, Dufaycolor, and Gasparcolor, which finally reached more convincing results with Technicolor and chromogenic processes.

The accurate reproduction of this colorful heritage with digital tools requires the understanding of the optical properties of the different color processes, knowledge about the projection techniques that were used for their screening in cinemas, and information about the features and limitations of current film scanning technology.

This course provides the tools that allows attendees to make the right choices when digitizing a motion picture film.

Intended Audience: film archive professionals, colorists, film scholars, etc.

Giorgio Trumpy has a solid real-world experience rooted in imaging science. He started working in 2006 in Florence on non-invasive analyses of paintings. During his PhD work at the University of Basel, he devised an optical setup for the restoration of motion pictures. Between 2014 and 2016 he was at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He is currently a research scientist at the University of Zurich conducting scientific analyses of historical film colors.

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