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Restoring Detour

2019 · 11 min

A short, sober look at the painstaking craft behind saving an old film, interesting to cinephiles but dry for casual viewers.

Genres
Documentary
Starring
Mike Pogorzelski, Heather Linville
Overview
This program details the challenges that the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, in collaboration with the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Cinémathèque française faced in the restoration of the 1945 film "Detour."

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Genres
Documentary
Starring
Mike Pogorzelski, Heather Linville
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    • documentary
    • true story
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    Starring
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    Runtime
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    Languages
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