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A Presentation of the Digital Film Restoration of Philippine Cinema by Ma. Marta Ines A Dayrit President / CEO Central Digital Lab, Inc. 100 Years of Film in the Philippines 100 Years of Film in the Philippines 100 Years of Film in the

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A Presentation of the Digital Film Restoration

  • f Philippine Cinema

by Ma. Marta Ines A Dayrit President / CEO Central Digital Lab, Inc.

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100 Years of Film in the Philippines

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100 Years of Film in the Philippines

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100 Years of Film in the Philippines

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Film Laboratory Practices and Printing Conditions in the Philippines

  • Time and Budget constraints

affected the quality of film productions

  • No budget for creating dupe

negatives

  • Shots for film trailers were lifted from

the assembled negatives of the main picture creating “Butterflies”

  • Multiple release copies were printed

from the original negatives

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  • The overall environment was not clean or

conducive to negative handling

  • Storage conditions were often substandard due

to the space and maintenance costs

Film Laboratory Practices and Printing Conditions in the Philippines

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  • Film Archives of the

Philippines (FAP), the first national film archive ever funded by the state was established by the Marcos government in 1982 and shut down after the regime’s ouster in 1986.

Philippine Cinema’s Archival Situation

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Philippine Cinema’s Archival Situation

  • The absence of a national archive led to an era of

cooperation and collaboration among the archivists in the country

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Philippine Cinema’s Archival Situation

  • In 2011, the National Film Archives of the

Philippines was re-established under the Film Development Council of the Philippines

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“It is estimated that only 37% of domestically- produced films survive (3,000 titles from approximately 8,000 works) since the introduction of the cinematograph in 1897.”

  • Bliss Cua Lim

Archival Fragility:Philippine Cinema and the Challenge of Sustainable Preservation (2013)

Philippine Cinema’s Archival Situation

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Philippine Cinema’s Archival Situation

“Vinegar Syndrome is inescapable, and the only thing we have to do is to slow down the process of decomposition. Our only solution right now is to digitize prints and protect them from moisture, which is actually the main enemy of film.”

  • Mary del Pilar, ABS-CBN Film Archives

Saving Face, Issues in Film Preservation and Archiving by Myta Santiago (2010)

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Private Initiatives

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Central Digital Lab

  • The Restoration Team is

headed by specialists in Film and Digital post production

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Dust

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Scratch

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Unsteadiness

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Camera Dirt

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Hair in the Gate

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Change Over Marks

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Splice Marks

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Flicker

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Film Bump

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Breathing

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Warp

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Film Tear

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Butterfly

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Color Stain

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Mold

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133 Titles Restored

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Zamboanga Test - Scan

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Zamboanga Test - Graded

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Zamboanga Test - Graded & Restored

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Zamboanga Test

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Thank you very much!