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Re:Kodak factory tour: How does Kodak make film? [video] by mixtur2021 on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:08AM (#30803070)
Indeed. 35mm is actually a good archiving format if stored correctly; good for 100 years. No need to continually change tape formats every couple of years.

I've heard for some of the 3 strip technicolor restorations, they scan the 3 individual B&W camera negative rolls separately (red, green, blue) and do the technicolor printing process in software effectively. This can give better results if the final technicolor print has issues.

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Re:Kodak factory tour: How does Kodak make film? [video] by dylan604 on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:32AM (#30803382)
IIRC, Snow White was the first digital corrected film that went through this process. Each frame scanned from negative, stored as digital file, digitally restored*, rescanned into channel separate negatives via laser recorder.

*Restoration has multiple stages like film scratch removal, dust removal, color correction, shape restoration from any warping/shrinking in the film being scanned, etc. Lots of work goes into this that most people never even consider

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