[Frameworks] question regarding color preservation of early animation films

[Pip Chodorov]

I don't know where the hand painted originals are or if any exist at all.
There must be an internegative at the Eye Institute (Amsterdam) 
because I think the 16mm print originally in circulation in Paris 
came from the Dutch Filmmuseum in the 1980s. New prints come from CVM 
and were supervised by Moritz but I don't remember the exact source 
of the older prints.
(I may be confusing with Ballet Mecanique because Moritz also restored that.)

We released a VHS in 1998 called "Dancing Images" with a Dutch 
company and we included Opus. We got the rights from Ruttman's 
daughter Eva Riehl and I made a Beta master from one of those 
original prints. Write me off-list if you are interested in obtaining 
a digital file transfer from the beta at cost.

-Pip




At 17:29 -0500 31/01/15, Laura Trager wrote:
>No, I haven't seen or heard of the existence of Ruttmann's 
>hand-painted prints... Do you know where they are archived or 
>where/how I might have a chance to see them?
>Also, aside from the bleed, can you tell me how similar these 
>digital versions are to the original?