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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's interesting reading the stories of how various films were restored. For example the John Wayne film, the High and the Mighty was not available for a long while. In the end, they had to piece it together from multiple prints. The original archive print was ruined when the vault it was in flooded, if I remember correctly.
I can remember watching one restored movie a number of years ago (can't remember the name of the movie at the moment) where they had the audio track, but not the film for several sections, so they just played the audio track with various stills from the movie during those sections. It was kind of an interesting effect as I remember it.
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They had a similar but different problem with Disney's "Pollyanna" I understand. They were supposed to be using the 3 strip technicolor process to create the colors but when they went back to the original strips (when they wanted to release the movie for home use) they found someone instead of using red, green and blue strips had accidentally done red, blue and blue strips so that they had to figure out a way to convert one of the blue strips to a green tinted strip so that the colors would register properly. Without that things like yellow boxes (that a character carries in one scene) looked pink among other color problems. Modern film stock has problems with fading as well. When they went back to make the VHS version of "The Godfather" they found that the print was fading after only about 20 yrs as a result of the film stock not keeping its colors like older 3 strip technicolor film did. So it's not just real old films that have had problems alas.