Digital Film Restoration

In partnership with the Austrian Film Gallery and Filmarchiv Austria, the Austrian Film Museum has begun to restore endangered films from its holdings with the use of digital technology and to make the results publicly accessible.

Since spring 2008, the Austrian Film Museum has been selecting historically significant and particularly threatened films for scanning, restoring them with the aid of “state of the art” software, and recording the results back onto film for long term preservation.

The Digital Film Restoration project was made possible with funding from the European Union, the Federal Republic of Austria,  and the state of Lower Austria.

On September 19, 2011, the Film Museum presented numerous examples from its work in this field, as well as a discussion with Museum staff about the different facets of film restoration.

The international symposium Digital Film Restoration within Archives took place at the Austrian Film Gallery in Krems between September 21 and 23, 2011.

Digital Film Restoration Policy / Österreichisches Filmmuseum [PDF]