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| China Film Archive has completed the black-and-white to color experiment of the film "Shangganling" fragment |
Xinhua News Agency Nanjing September 27th. Title: Film Repair: "Ingenuity, Inheritance, and Innovation"
15z 15 These classic films such as "Blessing" are limited by traditional media such as film, and the audiovisual effects are now greatly reduced. How to repair and save? Industry insiders gave answers at the "2020 Tribute to Classics · Restoration Film Theme Forum" held in Suzhou on the 26th.
digitizes the traditional film, and repairs the scratches, spots, color distortion and other issues. The film repair allows the classic movies to reproduce the beautiful pictures, and some movies even rejuvenate after the repair.
"Film restoration is behind the scenes in the follow-up process of the film. The restoration of time is not only a technology, but also to understand the background, history, and humanities of this movie and this period of time. A movie is 90 minutes , Hundreds of thousands of frames, one frame processing is a very difficult task, to do this work requires dedicated, dedicated, and loving craftsman spirit." said Xiao Bo, director of the Digital Restoration Center of China Film Digital Production Base. The restoration of
is also an opportunity to make up for some artistic shortcomings caused by the limitations of film media. Wu Yunyue, senior technical director and chief technician of film restoration at Shanghai Film Technology Factory, recalled the process of restoring the film "Painting Soul", and said that they invited the photographer of the film to participate in the restoration, but the photographer himself almost subverted the previous color tone style. “In the past, it was impossible to partial color correction. This was the limitation of film. Now the original artistic creativity can be realized with digital technology. The restoration process has fulfilled the photographer's wish for many years.” Wu Yunyue said.
reproduces the artistic texture of classic films, and besides manual restoration, it is also inseparable from technical empowerment. This year, the China Film Archive completed the black-and-white-to-color experiment of the film "Shangganling", and the artificial intelligence coloring technology is indispensable. In the process of digital restoration of some classic films, as the algorithm matures, some "impossible" become "possible". The digital technology of
allows the film to change from fiction to reality during restoration, which touched Li Tao, director of the Business Development Department of China Film Archive. He introduced that due to various reasons, one scene of the film "Blessing" is all fictitious and cannot be restored by traditional technology. However, they used digital technology to fix the passage frame by frame and try to restore the original "film feel" of the film. .
Compared with the integration of new technologies, the cultivation of the new generation is more urgent. Now, inspired by the older generation of film workers, a group of young film restorers has accelerated their growth.
China Film Equipment Co., Ltd. restorer Sun Fan participated in the restoration of films such as "The Mountain, The Man, and the Dog", and "Blood Morning". "At the beginning of the restoration, we will consult a large amount of information related to the film, watch the material of various versions of the film, and make preliminary adjustments to the film tone based on the collated information." Sun Fan said that to grow into a qualified craftsman, we must take the predecessors seriously The rigorous spirit and the pursuit of excellence in art.
Although the film restoration industry has more and more young faces, it is far from enough in the eyes of some insiders. On the one hand, it takes weeks, months, or even longer to repair a film, and the boring test of patience against the screen repair has limited appeal to young people; on the other hand, to ensure or even improve the artistic level in the restoration, this The industry needs more people who can read movies to devote themselves to this.
It is reported that the China Film Archive, China Film Digital Base, Shanghai Film Technology Factory, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Communication University of China, etc. are building the main team of China's film restoration industry.
"For more than ten years, the restoration team has changed, but the meticulous and the pursuit of excellence has been passed on. More and more classic film creators and researchers have entered the restoration laboratory to guide restorers to improve the art of restoration and let the classics The film continues to regain its beautiful pictures and has a reborn artistic soul." said Sun Xianghui, director of the China Film Archive and director of the China Film Art Research Center. (Xinhua News Agency reporter: Liu Shuo and Liu Weiwei)
