FCB Restores Historical Cinema and Documentaries with Cintel

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FCB Restores Historical Cinema and Documentaries with Cintel

PostFri Dec 02, 2022 8:14 pm

Blackmagic Design today announced that Fundación Cinemateca Boliviana (FCB), an institution committed to the recovery, research and conservation of Bolivian films, is using Cintel Scanner for real time film scanning of its Bolivian Film Archive. FCB’s projects, which include the restoration and digitization of more than 7,500 titles, involve cinema from the 1920s, documentaries from the 1950s to 1970s, numerous negatives and more.

Founded in July 1976, FCB has been recognized as an important landmark in Bolivia for its cultural contributions and efforts in recovering, conserving and preserving the Bolivian heritage of moving images, audiovisual dissemination as well as cultural public education and training.

“By implementing Cintel at the FCB, we’ve had the opportunity to restore filmic content that otherwise would have been impossible,” said Luis Alberto Tapia, editor and technical post producer at FCB. “Here in Bolivia, there were no laboratories that had the capability to transfer 35mm or 16mm celluloids to digital, positive or negative. Therefore, all the transfer and restoration processes were done abroad, with extremely high costs for everything from the actual restoration to transportation, customs, insurance and the overall risk involved in transporting the historical archives.”

For more information, please visit: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/ ... 0221202-01

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