Based on more than a decade of scientific research into film digitization and historical film colors by Barbara Flueckiger, founder of the Timeline of Historical Film Colors, and various team members collaborating on her projects they established their startup Scan2Screen in 2023.
Multispectral scan of the tinted, toned and Prizma II nitrate print by Scan2Screen.
Courtesy of Library of Congress.
Scan2Screen is headquartered in California and Switzerland, with an additional lab in Berlin. Scan2Screen’s innovative approach to digitization combines high-resolution multi-spectral scanning with sophisticated color rendering software, to capture the diverse range of different historical film colors and translate the vibrancy and authenticity of analog films into the digital realm.
Multispectral scan of the hand tinted nitrate print by Scan2Screen.
Courtesy of Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam.
Scan2Screen has successfully completed a major digitization project for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ upcoming exhibition, Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema, digitizing 73 rare fragments from film archives including the Library of Congress, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern, Bundesarchiv Film Archive Berlin. The exhibition is set to open in Los Angeles, CA on October 6, 2024 and run through July 13, 2025.
Multispectral scan of the nitrate print by Scan2Screen.
Courtesy of Library of Congress.
Visit Scan2Screen’s news page to learn more about the teams’ contribution to the Color in Motion exhibition:
https://scan2screen.com/news/
See details about Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema on the Academy Museum’s website:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/exhibitions/color-in-motion